Frutos-Peterson, Claudia; Umerov, Marat --- "Special Provisions Relating to Proceedings" [2019] ELECD 3034; in Fouret, Julien; Gerbay, Remy; Alvarez, M. Gloria (eds), "The ICSID Convention, Regulations and Rules" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 955

Book Title: The ICSID Convention, Regulations and Rules

Editor(s): Fouret, Julien; Gerbay, Rémy; Alvarez, M. Gloria

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 17

Section Title: Special Provisions Relating to Proceedings

Author(s): Frutos-Peterson, Claudia; Umerov, Marat

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

17
SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO
PROCEEDINGS
Claudia Frutos-Peterson and Marat Umerov1



This chapter governs important issues related to the proceedings and which must be 17.01
kept in mind by practitioners participating in cases administered by the Centre. On the
one hand, Regulation 29 details how the time limits set out in the Convention, its Rules
and/or by Arbitral Tribunals, Commissions, ad hoc Committees and the Secretary-
General are calculated. On the other hand, Regulation 30 provides instructions with
regard to the filing of supporting documents.




REGULATION 29 ­ TIME LIMITS2

(1) All time limits, specified in the Convention or the Rules or fixed by a Commis-
sion, Tribunal, Committee or the Secretary-General, shall be computed from
the date on which the limit is announced in the presence of the parties or their
representatives or on which the Secretary-General dispatches the pertinent no-
tification or instrument (which date shall be marked on it). The day of such an-
nouncement or dispatch shall be excluded from the calculation.
(2) A time limit shall be satisfied if a notification or instrument dispatched by a
party is delivered at the seat of the Centre, or to the Secretary of the competent
Commission, Tribunal or Committee that is meeting away from the seat of the
Centre, before the close of business on the indicated date or, if that day is a Sat-
urday, a Sunday, a public holiday observed at the place of delivery or a day on
which for any ...