Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Japan is generally perceived as a country with little political corruption. Feedback from municipal hearings suggests that information on procurement and public sector staff recruitment is already open, leading to questions about the need for further transparency. Why is open contracting policy needed in Japan?

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ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

Originally published in the 2022 ProcureCon Report “Transforming Procurement: Embracing Digital Innovation and Driving Sustainability” Ethical business practices and sustainability initiatives are forcing organizations to not only stand up, but to also set themselves apart from the competition by implementing ESG and CSR commitments.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

The program holds valuable lessons for others working to empower contracting monitors with different skills and backgrounds to work closely together to foster transparency and better procurement practices in their regions.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 6, 2023

Giuseppe Busia, President of Italy’s National Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) highlighted digitalization as a key element to prevent corruption and improve efficiency in public procurement and provided concrete examples of how ANAC collaborates with civil society to pursue data-driven approaches to anti-corruption.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In instances of active waste, such suboptimal decisions are motivated by personal gain, as exemplified by corruption. This holistic strategy—anchored in transparency, accountability, and technological integration—fosters a robust fiscal environment conducive to sustainable economic growth and enhanced public trust.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 1, 2024

Finally, Galindez pointed to the role of institutions seeking to improve transparency where state entities are involved, by publishing redacted awards, details of arbitrator appointments and increasing public access to information on ongoing cases. Nigeria arbitral award and the issue of fraud and corruption. He referred to Prof.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 12, 2024

ICSID reported that, out of the new forty-five registered cases, twenty-one were brought against Latin American and Caribbean states (the annual report covers the fiscal year from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023). Corruption allegations in arbitration proceedings relating to Peru remain very common.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

3), complemented by new Internal Rules , in effect since 1 July 2023, in an effort to further promote transparency and efficiency. An SCCA study of Saudi arbitration-related case law between 2017-2022 revealed that out of 131 annulment applications brought in Saudi courts, 92% were denied and only 3.8%

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Early this year, the European Union (“EU”) finalized the required internal procedures for the entry into force of the Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement concluded between the European Union and the Republic of Angola on 18 November 2022 (“SIFA” or the “Agreement”).

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

It had reinstated in late 2022 a policy over 2011-13 of not agreeing to ISDS in new IIAs. This is important indeed, but enhanced transparency risks aggravating issues, especially when complex. However, as with the JSCOT procedure in Parliament, enhanced transparency risks instead aggravating concerns in Australia around ISDS.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

ChileCompra has not only established a formal channel for bidders and citizens to report questionable contracts to authorities for the first time, it has also published the Observatory’s investigation reports and statistics on complaints from the public, making oversight of the procurement system fully transparent. “[In

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 10, 2024

The goal is to ensure transparency in class arbitration proceedings involving stock market investors, corporations, officers, and major stakeholders (“Securities Disputes”), seeking to further protect the investors’ interests. 80/2022 (“Resolution”), Annex I, art. 2.925/2023 (“ Bill ”) is intended to amend federal law no.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

times the country’s estimated GDP in 2022. The vision is to go beyond supporting “just” a transparency and reporting portal to have a digital ecosystem that integrates real-time damage assessments, budgets, project planning, procurement and delivery. The cost of reconstruction and recovery will be much more: at least $411 billion, 2.6

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 28, 2024

Building on the successful inaugural CIAW that took place in March 2022, the 2023 CIAW attracted over 1,500 attendees from all over the world, including Singapore, Armenia, Brazil, Mexico, South Korea, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Japan. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin , No. 22–381 (U.S. Young CalArb is sponsored by CalArb.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

It served as VIAC’s response to the increasing call of parties, counsel and arbitrators alike for greater transparency in arbitration through enhanced access to arbitral awards and their reasoning. Compared to November 2022, the number of new cases filed at VIAC have increased by 53 %. It has been a pleasure to collaborate with you.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Among all ICC cases that were withdrawn (before a final award could be rendered) in 2022, around 45% of cases were withdrawn before the constitution of tribunal, which indicates that the claimant has paid only the filing fee of 5,000 USD. Zhang offered an institutional angle to practice.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 29, 2024

Indeed, on 13 September 2022, the European Parliament passed a Resolution with recommendations to the Commission on Responsible private funding of litigation. The Resolution noted that there are at least 45 third-party funders operating in the EU.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ICC offices in São Paulo report that almost 85% of their total amount in dispute regards cases with Brazilian state entities [fn] As informed by the ICC’s Counsel during the 2022 Brazilian Arbitration Day organized by the ICC in São Paulo, Brazil. [fn]. Transparency is the general rule in all arbitrations with state parties.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ICC offices in São Paulo report that almost 85% of their total amount in dispute regards cases with Brazilian state entities [fn] As informed by the ICC’s Counsel during the 2022 Brazilian Arbitration Day organized by the ICC in São Paulo, Brazil. [fn]. Transparency is the general rule in all arbitrations with state parties.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 21, 2024

Set to enter into force in 2025 or 2026, the Act will seek to ensure that AI systems used in the EU are safe, transparent, traceable, non-discriminatory, and environmentally friendly. In October 2022, the ICC launched its new digital case management platform, ICC Case Connect.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Nevertheless, a growing number of arbitrations revolve around matters like environmental permits, green incentives, the need for a “social license,” and corruption. At least not explicitly.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 23, 2024

28, and September 2022 Session Report , paras. 43 and 50); third-party funding of ISDS claims, which raises concerns about transparency and perverse incentives ( October 2019 Session Report , paras. 31-35; September 2022 Session Report , para.

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University of Bristol

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Procurement rules and policies seek to ensure that contract awards are free from corruption, conflicts of interest or anticompetitive practices, and that these vast sums of public funds generate value for money and support social, environmental, and innovative practices. This blog post provides a summary of the main findings so far.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 3, 2024

According to UNCTAD , in 2022, 60 investment treaties were terminated, while fewer than 20 new ones were signed. In 2022, the Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment conducted a survey of renewable energy experts, in a quest to understand the factors that shape investment decisions.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 23, 2023

He also emphasised that new initiatives are under consideration to develop transparency in the work of the domestic courts. For instance, the economic procedural code was amended to better serve the needs of the parties to arbitrations, including the enforcement of awards and interim measures.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Legal and Regulatory Transparency The Model Clauses propose an Article on transparency, which requires publishing laws and regulations of general application that may affect investors. This is similar (save on timing) to Article 41 of the 2022 ICSID Arbitration Rules.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 31, 2023

With more than 30 provisions improved in the 2024 Rules, which constitute the 10th edition of CIETAC’s arbitration rules, CIETAC is striving to provide parties and arbitral tribunals with more flexibility, efficiency, and transparency throughout arbitration proceedings. This continues CIETAC’s past efforts to regulate third-party funding.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 13, 2024

of Appendix I to DIAC Arbitration Rules 2022 provides a solution whereby a party can make substitute payments of the other party’s share with the objective of recovering these payments after the formation of the arbitral tribunal. Furthermore, Article 3.3

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 11, 2024

Hosting the inaugural Uzbek Arbitration Week in 2021, and then followed with its 2022 and 2023 editions, which brought together the global arbitration community to share knowledge and raise Uzbekistan’s profile as an arbitral seat. How has the arbitration landscape changed in Uzbekistan since then? Past interviews are available here.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For instance, LACIAC was one of the four arbitral centres that collaborated with the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in cooperation with the African Legal Support Facility to organise a counsel in arbitration skills-based training in 2022. The Adjudication Rules were a vital part of the Centre’s 2021 “ROAD” Map.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 20, 2024

HKIAC Case Digest was awarded the GAR Best Innovation by an Individual or Organisation in 2022. More from our authors: Dealing with Bribery and Corruption in International Commercial Arbitration: To Probe or Not to Probe by Emmanuel Obiora Igbokwe € 190 Arbitration in Egypt: A Practitioner's Guide by Ibrahim Shehata € 190

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 13, 2024

We will conduct a survey at the five-year mark to update the benchmark 2020 Australian Arbitration Survey to help track progress of evolving user needs, and will continue to be transparent about sharing data, as we did in our 2022 Reflections Report and release of case load statistics. Past interviews are available here.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 12, 2024

On this point, Karel emphasised the different institutional approaches towards increasing transparency vis-à-vis arbitrator appointments, with counsel being responsible for learning the practice of each institution. Regarding intra-EU awards, two concurrent decisions by the Paris Court of Appeal in 2022, Strabag v. Poland and Slot v.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The WG II’s Proposed Model Clauses At its 55th session (2022), the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (the “Commission”) tasked the WG II to combine proposals for future work on technology-related dispute resolution and adjudication and consider ways to accelerate the resolution of disputes.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 16, 2023

On 16 and 17 October 2022, the Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada held its X Arbitration Congress (“X CAM-CCBC Congress” or “Congress”) in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In short time, the AI was corrupted by the users and started sending out violent messages. In addition to litigation, Ms.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 8, 2024

In 2023, the institution handled 175 cases, up from a dip to 143 cases in 2022, maintaining its average annual caseload of 170-215 cases over the past 20 years. The institution has updated its rules to better address corporate disputes and emphasizes transparency and diversity, with 40% of its arbitrators being female.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Challenge: Despite ongoing government reforms, corruption and inefficient spending remains pervasive in Kazakhstan’s public procurement. Finally, the Anti-Corruption Agency is proactively supporting the development of civic monitoring and has agreed to cooperate with the civil society coalition to monitor procurement.

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