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Everyone concludes at least one insurance contract in their lifetime – to protect their home, car, or life, or to ensure coverage of health expenses when traveling abroad. Most people are familiar with the main characteristics of the insurance contract – it is concluded in writing, most often in the form of an insurance policy, the general terms and conditions of the insurer apply to it, the policyholder has obligations to declare certain circumstances (the so called circumstances affecting the risk) and to pay a premium. In their turn, the insurer has one main obligation – to pay indemnity upon occurrence.
Critical analyse of the most significant event for Bulgaria for 2016 in the field of international arbitration - the issuance of the award under the case of the Russian company AtomStroyExport against the National Electricity Company (NEK) concerning the order of equipment for building the nuclear power plant in Belene.
Metody Baykushev and Pencho Stanchev discuss a conspicuous weakness in the amended Tax and Social Security Procedure Code to the detriment of former shareholders. *This publication is in Bulgarian.
The FIDIC forms of contracts (FIDIC forms) constitute a comprehensive set of rules applied worldwide in complicated construction projects. The FIDIC forms contain a multi-tier dispute resolution mechanism – depending on the type of a Book, they provide for consideration of disputes (1) by an Engineer (an Employer’s agent managing the construction project), (2) by an Engineer and a Dispute Adjudication Board (DAB – a private independent panel consisting of one or three experts who consider a dispute and issue a decision binding for the parties under certain conditions), (3) through an amicable settlement, (4) and by an arbitral tribunal/court (depending on the specific agreement between the parties, as stated in the Particular Conditions of the respective contract).
The FIDIC forms of contracts (FIDIC forms) constitute a comprehensive set of rules applied worldwide in complicated construction projects. The FIDIC forms contain a multi-tier dispute resolution mechanism – depending on the type of a Book, they provide for consideration of disputes (1) by an Engineer (an Employer’s agent managing the construction project), (2) by an Engineer and a Dispute Adjudication Board (DAB – a private independent panel consisting of one or three experts who consider a dispute and issue a decision binding for the parties under certain conditions), (3) through an amicable settlement, (4) and by an arbitral tribunal/court (depending on the specific agreement between the parties, as stated in the Particular Conditions of the respective contract).