Originally from World Arbitration Reporter (WAR) - 2nd Edition

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I.  BASIC INFORMATION

A. History and Background of the Institution

The Beijing Arbitration Commission/Beijing International Arbitration Center (BAC/BIAC) is an independent non-profit organization offering services in commercial arbitration, investment arbitration, commercial mediation and other dispute resolution procedures. The BAC was established on September 28, 1995. By the end of 2021, the BAC had accepted a total of 58,551 cases. The annual caseload over the past 10 years is shown in the table below. In recent years, there have been a substantial number of international parties utilizing the services of the BAC. The international parties come from over 54 jurisdictions, including the USA, UK, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Australia.

A committee comprised of 11 commission members oversees the BAC’s operations. These members are well-respected experts and scholars from the fields of law or economics and trade.

The administrative office runs the day-to-day affairs of the BAC under the management of the Secretary General. In every case, a member of the BAC office will be appointed as the case-handling secretary (case manager) to provide case management services for the parties. The duties of a case-handling secretary include, but are not limited to, delivering various notifications regarding the arbitration, facilitating the composition of Arbitral Tribunals, making a written record of the hearing, checking drafts of awards, and managing other procedural issues.