Regulation on Specialised Panels of the Arbitration Centre at the RSPP

Article 1. Scope of Application

This Regulation contains the names of specialised panels formed at the Arbitration Centre at the RSPP (hereafter referred to as the Arbitration Centre) and defines the list of disputes such panels are competent to hear.

Article 2. Basic Terms and Definitions

The terms and definitions used in this Regulation shall apply in their meaning used in the rules of the Arbitration Centre and laws of the Russian Federation.

Article 3. Names of Specialised Panels

The following specialised panels have been established in the Arbitration Centre:

1) Panel for International Disputes;
2) Panel for Corporate Disputes;
3) Panel for Financial Disputes and Exchange Trading;
4) Panel for Construction Disputes;
5) Panel for Banking Disputes;
6) Panel for Digital Economy Disputes;
7) Panel for Intellectual Property Disputes;
8) Panel for Transport Disputes;
9) Panel for Investment and Infrastructure Projects Disputes;
10) Panel for Advocacy (Legal Services) Disputes;
11) Panel for Insurance Disputes.

Article 4. Disputes falling within the Competence of Specialised Panels

1. The competence of the Panel for International Disputes shall include:

1) disputes arising in the course of foreign trade and other forms of international economic relations, provided that the place of business of at least one of the parties is situated abroad or any place where the significant part of obligations arising out of relationships between the parties is to be performed or the place with which the subject matter of the dispute is most closely connected is located abroad;
2) disputes related to foreign investments in the Russian Federation or Russian investments abroad;
3) disputes which are subject to international arbitration in accordance with applicable law and international treaties;
4) other disputes involving foreign citizens or foreign legal entities, or disputes arising out of relations with any other foreign element, including cases where an object of the dispute is situated abroad.

2. The competence of the Panel for Corporate Disputes shall include disputes related to the incorporation of a legal entity, management thereof and participation therein.

3. The competence of the Panel for Financial Disputes and Exchange Trading shall include:

1) disputes arising from contracts concluded in the course of exchange trading, including at securities, forward, currency, money or commodity markets, precious metals market or market for standardized financial derivatives as well as any other disputes considered on the basis of arbitration agreements mentioned in the rules of trading, clearing rules and rules of admission to trading registered in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation;
2) disputes related to securities and currency sale contracts, repurchase agreements and derivative financial instruments;
3) disputes arising out of general agreements concluded in accordance with the legislation on the securities market;
4) disputes arising out of relations governed by standard terms and conditions of contracts approved by a self-regulatory organization operating in the financial market, which unites brokers, by a self-regulatory organization operating in the financial market, which unites dealers, by a self-regulatory organization operating in the financial market, which unites managers;
5) disputes arising out of relations of tendering and clearing services as well as information technology services related to the abovementioned services, implementation and (or) maintenance of electronic workflows, listing of securities;
6) disputes involving exchanges and (or) financial organizations arising from their activities, licensed or regulated in accordance with the legislation on the securities market;
7) disputes arising in the course of the creation of professional participants in the securities market, whose activities are licensed or regulated in accordance with the legislation on the securities market;
8) disputes between self-regulatory organizations in the financial market, as well as disputes of such organizations with their members.

4. The competence of the Panel for Construction Disputes shall include:

1) disputes arising from construction contracts, including but not limited to construction, reconstruction and major repairs of capital construction objects, as well as disputes directly or indirectly related to these contracts;
2) disputes arising out of contracts on engineering surveys and contracts on preparation of project documentation in the construction sphere, as well as disputes directly or indirectly related to these contracts;
3) corporate and other disputes connected with self-regulation in the field of engineering surveys, architectural designing, building, reconstruction, major repairs of objects of capital construction, including, but not exclusively, concerning payments from compensation funds and application of civil-law responsibility measures for breach of obligations (duties) by members of self-regulatory organizations.

5. The competence of the Panel for Banking Disputes shall include:

1) disputes involving credit organizations arising out of their banking operations;
2) disputes arising out of transactions, which a credit organization is entitled to carry out in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

6. The competence of the Panel for Digital Economy Disputes shall include:
1) disputes related to the issuance, accounting and turnover of digital assets certifying property rights;
2) disputes related to the registration of property rights by making records in the Internet on the basis of a distributed ledger technology (blockchain);
3) disputes arising from transactions involving automatic performance (self-performed transactions, smart contracts), including those involving the use of information systems on the basis of a distributed ledger technology (blockchain);
4) disputes arising out of transactions conducted with the use and (or) in respect of digital assets (including tokens, cryptocurrency and digital signs);
5) disputes related to the organization of retail financing (crowdfunding), including disputes related to the provision of an access to information resources of the Internet (investment platform) for the conclusion of contracts using this system, based on which investments are attracted;
6) disputes arising from transactions conducted with the use of various methods of digital identification of the parties (including electronic digital signatures and clicking on a link on a web page), as well as disputes regarding the processing and security of personal data;
7) disputes related to the processing of big data, including disputes related to the application of technical standards and information security;
8) disputes related to the application of distributed ledger technology, artificial intelligence, neurotechnologies, quantum technologies, industrial Internet, wireless communication technologies, virtual and augmented reality, as well as other disputes related to the creation, processing and use of digital technologies.

7. The competence of the Panel for Intellectual Property Disputes shall include disputes related to protection of intellectual property rights, patent rights, preemptive rights and rights of use, including:

1) disputes arising in connection with development, creation, turnover of intellectual property objects, including those related to author’s commissioning agreements, scientific research and development contracts and other contracts related to the creation of protectable results of intellectual activity;
2) disputes related to transactions on the disposal of exclusive intellectual property rights, including those related to open license agreements and other license agreements, as well as to the management of intellectual property rights;
3) disputes related to the registration of the objects of intellectual property and other protectable results of intellectual activity;
4) disputes related to the registration and the use of domains of various levels (domain disputes).

8. The competence of the Panel for Transport Disputes shall include:

1) disputes involving shipowners, charterers, carriers, cargo owners, consignors, consignees, brokers, agents and other persons arising out of activities related to the use of sea and inland waterway transport, including:
- disputes arising out of construction, purchase and sale, leasing, financing, mortgaging, maintenance, repair, equipment, bunkering of ships and other floating objects, as well as objects located (fixed) at the bottom of seas, rivers, lakes, other water bodies and waterways;
- disputes arising out of carriage of goods and passengers (including carriage of goods in a mixed navigation (river-sea)), storage of goods contracts, contract of affreightment, including bareboat and time charter, maritime agency contracts, ship management contracts, contracts for maritime towing of vessels and other floating objects, as well as objects placed (fixed) at the bottom of the seas, rivers, lakes, other water bodies and waterways;
- disputes arising out of pilotage services (including ice pilotage), agency or other maintenance of vessels, engagement of ships in scientific research, mineral development, cable and pipeline laying, hydrotechnical and other works;
- disputes arising out of accidents and incidents at sea, other waters and inland waterways, salvage, removal of a sunken ship or sunken property, collisions (including damage done by a vessel to port infrastructures, navigation means and other facilities, damage caused to fishing nets and other equipment for extracting (fishing) water bio-resources and other damage caused in the process of commercial fishing and damage caused by petroleum products spills);
- disputes arising out of maritime insurance and reinsurance;
- disputes arising out of arrest, protection and release from arrest.
2) disputes involving air carriers, airports, booking agents and other persons whose activities are related to the use of air transport, including use of unmanned aircraft, unmanned aircraft systems and (or) their elements, including:
- disputes arising out of construction, purchase and sale, leasing, financing, mortgaging, repair, maintenance, ground and airport maintenance, aircraft parking;
- disputes arising out of carriage of goods, passengers and baggage, aircraft chartering contracts (air charter);
- disputes arising out of aviation accident or incident, compensation for damage caused during the use of aircraft;
- disputes arising out of air insurance and reinsurance;
- disputes arising out of arrest, protection and release from arrest.
3) disputes involving enterprises, institutions and organizations of railway transport, carriers, consignors, consignees, owners of railway transport infrastructures, owners of railway tracks, other persons arising from activities related to the use of railway transport, including:
- disputes arising out of construction, purchase and sale, leasing, financing, mortgaging, repair, maintenance of railway transport, railway rolling stock, wagons, gondola rail vehicles, fitting platforms;
- disputes arising out of carriage of goods, passengers and baggage (including cargo baggage);
- disputes arising out of insurance and reinsurance;
- disputes arising out of railway accidents, compensation for damage caused during the use of railway transport.
4) disputes involving charterers, consignors, consignees, carriers, lessors, agents and other persons, arising from activities related to the use of road freight transport, in particular:
- disputes arising out of purchase and sale, lease, mortgaging;
- disputes related to contracts for the carriage of goods by road;
- disputes related to contracts of insurance and reinsurance;
- disputes arising out of the accidents, compensation for damage caused during the use of cargo vehicles.

9. The competence of the Panel for Investment and Infrastructure Projects Disputes shall include:

1) disputes arising out of the implementation of investments, including investments related to concession agreements and agreements on the encouragement and mutual protection of investments, as well disputes arising out of the implementation of projects in the field of private public partnership;
2) disputes arising out of venture investment, investment through direct investment in the authorized capital, including the mechanism for using convertible loans and other financial instruments;
3) disputes arising from relations on the implementation of infrastructure projects.

10. The competence of the Panel for Advocacy (Legal Services) Disputes shall include:

1) disputes arising out of legal aid contracts concluded between attorneys and their principals;
2) other disputes related to providing legal services.

11. The competence of the Panel for Insurance Disputes shall include disputes involving insurance and reinsurance companies, mutual insurance companies, insurance agents, insurance brokers, insurance actuaries, assured, insured, beneficiaries, persons intending to conclude an insurance contract, as well as other persons who are parties to insurance, including:

1) disputes related to property insurance contracts, including property insurance, financial risk insurance, business risk insurance and civil liability insurance;
2) disputes related to personal insurance contracts, including life insurance, accident and sickness insurance and health insurance.

Article 5. Effect of the Regulation

This Regulation shall be effective as of 01 September 2025.