Technical Notes on Online Dispute Resolution of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law

A/RES/71/138View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 76 Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its 49th session, published in 2016.

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Dispute Settlement Electronic Commerce Guidelines International Commercial Arbitration

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Expresses its appreciation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law for preparing and adopting the Technical Notes on Online Dispute Resolution as annexed to the report of the Commission on the work of its forty-ninth session;⁴

⁴Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/71/17).

Requests the Secretary-General to publish the text of the Technical Notes through all appropriate means, including electronically, in the six official languages of the United Nations, and to disseminate that text broadly to Governments and other interested bodies;

Recommends that all States and other stakeholders use the Technical Notes in designing and implementing online dispute resolution systems for cross-border commercial transactions;

Requests all States to support the promotion and use of the Technical Notes.

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