1. In accordance with Switzerland’s Federal Code on Private International Law (PILA), CAS has the power to decide on its own jurisdiction, whereas Article 186 PILA is applicable to CAS arbitration; according to Swiss legal scholars, Swiss law gives priority to the arbitral tribunal decide on its own competence if its competence is contested before it and it is up to the arbitral tribunal to decide whether a person called before it is bound or not by the arbitration agreement