Convention on International Commercial Arbitration

The European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration 1961 (ECICA) is a multilateral treaty regulating certain aspects of international arbitral proceedings. Some of its provisions cover issues also governed by the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards 1958, also known as the New York Convention (NYC), which was concluded three years earlier than the ECICA. In today’s international arbitration practice, the ECICA’s significance is best known in regard to the same issue governed by the NYC: the enforcement of arbitral awards. The ECICA itself does not provide means of enforcing arbitral awards.