Originally from Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation

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Last September, the European Parliament approved a resolution on the implementation of the 2008 Directive on certain aspects of mediation in civil and commercial matters. (Available at http://bit.ly/2Efff0E.)

After almost 10 years of the Directive’s implementation, the goal of this resolution was to recommend to the European Union Commission and the Member States actions to undertake in order to further encourage mediation use in European civil and commercial matters and, above all, to evaluate if the Directive needed some amendments.

The resolution and its recommendations have been based mainly on four studies carried out over the past decade. The first three of these studies have been coordinated by the author and Giuseppe De Palo, a co-founder of the ADR Center with the author currently at the United Nations, and with the support of ADR Center’s staff.