CHAPTER FIVE

ARBITRATION AND SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES

Article (205)

	Contesting the administrative decrees issued by the Minister or the Authority in connection with the Law, these Regulations, and executive decisions issued for their implementation shall be lodged to the Contesting Committee stipulated in Article 50 of the law.  Where there is no special provision in the Law, the contest shall be lodged to the Committee within thirty days from the date of notifying the concerned party of the decree, or from the date of his knowledge of such a degree.

Article (206)

	The contest shall be lodged in one original and six copies and shall include the following information:

1.	Name, surname, occupation and address of the contestant;

2.	Date of the contested decree and the date of notifying the concerned party, or the date of his knowledge thereof;

3.	Subject of the contest and the reasons it is lodged for, together with supporting documents; and

4.	The receipt indicating payment of the amount stipulated in Article 211 of these Regulations.

Article (207)

	A contesting office shall be established at the Authority and will be manned with a number of staff of the Authority to receive the contests and records them in a special record on the date they are received. The office shall provide the contestant with a copy of his contest certified with the number and date of its recording.

Article (208)

	The office shall refer the contest immediately upon receipt to the Committee Chairman who shall proceed with its submission to the Committee for examination. The Committee may request clarification, as it deems necessary from the parties concerned together with their supporting documents.

	The Committee shall judge the contest within sixty days from the date of lodging the case or the date of providing the clarifications sought, as the case may be.

	Judgment decisions of the Committee shall be final and enforceable.

Article (209)

	The contesting office shall provide the concerned party, by means of registered mail with acknowledgement receipt, with a certified copy of the Committee's decision regarding his contest, and the justifications upon which the decision is based.

Article (210)

	Upon submitting his application for arbitration, the applicant shall deposit in the Authority, the fees and arbitration expenses.

	Arbitration expenses shall be determined according to the value of each dispute as follows:

Up to 	L.E.  50,000				            :	L.E. 2000
From  	L.E.  50,000 up to   L.E. 100,000	:	L.E. 3000
From 	L.E. 100,000 up to  L.E. 200,000	            :	L.E. 4000
		From 	L.E. 200,000 up to  L.E. 500,000	            :	L.E. 5000
From 	L.E. 500,000 up to  L.E. 1,000,000	:	L.E. 6000
Over   L.E. 1,000,000			  	:	L.E.10000

	If the dispute, subject of arbitration, is not evaluated arbitration expenses of L.E. 5,000 shall be payable in respect thereof.

	The arbitration decision issued in the subject of dispute shall determine the party who shall pay the arbitration fees, expenses and remunerations.

Article (211)

	The contestant of the administrative decrease issued by the Minister or the Authority in connection with the Law, these Regulations or the executive decisions issued for their implementation thereof shall deposit at the Authority an amount of Five Thousand Egypt Pounds to be refunded to him in case the Committee's decision is taken in his favor and after deducting l0 % for administrative expenses.

Article 212

	The Authority shall pay the remuneration of the Chairman of the Arbitration Council at a rate of l0% of the amount levied from the applicant for arbitration and in accordance with the provisions of article 210 of these regulations, with a minimum of One Thousand pounds and a maximum of Two Thousand pounds.  Each party to the arbitration shall bear the remuneration pertaining to his own arbitrator and the Authority shall bear the remuneration pertaining to the Contesting Committee at a rate of Five Hundred pounds for the Chairman of the Committee per each contest, and Four Hundred pounds for each member of the Committee. This is without prejudice to article 66 of these regulations.

	The Chairman of the Authority shall determine the remunerations of the staff of the Arbitration office and the Contesting Committee.