Parties
The main parties to the arbitration
Art. 43 - The main parties to the arbitration are the claimant(s) and the respondent(s), all having to sign an arbitration agreement.
Intervention and addition of third parties
Art. 44 - (1) A person wishing to intervene in the arbitration shall send a proceedings intervention request to the Secretariat of the Arbitration Court for Transport.
(2) Within 5 days after making the intervention request, the Secretariat of the Arbitration Court for Transport shall inform the parties of the request and the necessity to declare their consent or dissent within 10 days after its receipt.
(3) Declaration of consent of the parties with the intervention acts as a confirmation for joining the arbitration case by the third party.
(4) On the confirmation date for joining the case, the third party becomes a party to arbitration.
(5) The party wishing to bring in a third party as a party to arbitration shall make an appropriate request to the Secretariat of the Arbitration Court for Transport pursuant to p. (1) - (4).
Participation of multiple claimants or respondents
Art. 45 - In case of participation of multiple claimants or respondents in the arbitration, each party may make claims against any other party under the condition that no further claim can be made after signing of the arbitration act.
Claims based on multiple contracts
Art. 46 - Claims based on or related to several contracts may be consolidated through a single arbitration dispute, under the condition that each contract including activities relating to transportation and other activities relating to transport, shall fall, from a dispute resolution perspective, under the jurisdiction and competence of the Transportation Arbitration court the Arbitration Court for Transport.
Consolidation of arbitration disputes
Art. 47 - (1) Following the request of either of the parties, the Arbitration Court for Transport may consolidate multiple cases in accordance with the present Code, when the following conditions are satisfied:
a) The parties agreed upon consolidation of the cases;
b) All the claims on these cases are based on a single arbitration agreement;
c) when the claims are based on multiple arbitration agreements, the parties shall all feature in the same manner in all the cases, the disputes are due to the same legal relations, and the Arbitration Court for Transportation considers the arbitration agreements as compatible.
(2) The Arbitration Court for Transport may take into consideration all the circumstances considered as significant, including participation of one or several arbitrators in the cases, when ruling on a request for consolidation of arbitration cases.
(3) When consolidating several cases, the main case the other cases will be joined to should be the first case brought to the arbitration.
