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ECDR - European Centre for Dispute Resolution

ECDR is a private non-profit institute. ECDR offers services on contractual basis to natural and legal persons, corporations, small and medium size enterprises, public agencies, courts and other governmental and non-governmental organizations, which wish to establish or exercise schemes of cost-effective, business-friendly dispute prevention, management and early resolution. ECDR provides administrative and organizational support to procedures, carried out by accredited expert neutrals from all over the world. ECDR offers wide range of services from dispute system design, partnering or mediation in corporate governance conflicts to early neutral evaluation, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, specialized procedure for resolution of consumer disputes or hybrid processes like med-arb and arb-med in both, internal and external issues, controversies or disputes. One of the major business goals of the ECDR is taking a leading role in dispute resolution procedures in cross-border cases and in deals or disputes with an international element, arising out of or in connection with commercial contracts concluded between companies in the area of South and Eastern Europe, in particular the Balkans, Ukraine and Russia. ECDR offers services in various fields, with emphasis on commercial, financial, business, consumer, civil, family and employment issues. Activities of the ECDR are focused on excellence in providing high quality services. Only those experts in dispute prevention, management and resolution are accredited, who meet the pre-specified objective criteria and are chosen discretionally by the competent ECDR body. ECDR adopts and publishes rules of the procedures, which are in conformity with national, European and International laws and regulations and follow recognized international standards and practice. The rules are adopted with the approval of the ECDR Council for legal questions which is composed by reputed domestic/international legal experts.