Bibliographie sélective OHADA

Les contrats administratifs, plus précisément les marchés publics, sont moyens par lesquels l’Etat assure sa mission d’intérêt général. Ainsi, il peut arriver que pendant la phase de passation ou d’exécution d’un contrat de marché public, que l’une des parties ne puisse pas accomplir les formalités, d’où la naissance d’un litige. De ce fait, pour résoudre ce litige, les parties peuvent décider d’un règlement à l’amiable du différend. L’arbitrage étant le mode par excellence de règlement à l’amiable des litiges, il est donc opportun en partant de ces spécificités, de mettre en œuvre la procédure d’arbitralité des marchés public et l’issue positive de cette procédure qu’est la sentence arbitrale.

Terre attractive pour les investisseurs étrangers, le Maroc voit son économie muter au gré de l'implantation d'entreprises. Face à cette situation, l'adaptation du droit est essentielle. Il s'agit effectivement d'un instrument fondamental pouvant être mis à la disposition des entreprises pour leur offrir un cadre légal rassurant quant à la prospérité de leurs intérêts. Or la justice étatique inspire traditionnellement la crainte du fait de sa lourdeur administrative et de son incapacité à assurer des garanties procédurales suffisantes Pour résorber cela, le législateur marocain a tendu à développer les modes alternatifs de règlement des conflits, tel que l'arbitrage. C'est dans ce contexte que la loi intitulée "arbitrage et médiation conventionnelle" a été ratifiée, le 6 décembre 2007. Elle s'inspire du droit français pour modifier les articles 306 à 327 du Code de procédure civile marocain. Ce cadre procédural vise à insuffler une vigueur nouvelle aux modes alternatifs de règlement des conflits. Néanmoins, la souplesse du régime a pour corollaire des pathologies qui peuvent affecter les conventions d'arbitrage. La rédaction des clauses approximatives, et la formation insuffisante de certains arbitres se traduisent par des conventions d'arbitrage bancales, sources de nouveaux problèmes là où elles devraient faciliter la résolution des litiges. Dans ces conditions, une nouvelle réforme a donné naissance à un Code de l’arbitrage, ratifié le 24 mai 2022. Il s’agira d’étudier l’évolution de la législation marocaine de l’arbitrage, dans une dimension comparatiste avec le droit français, et à la lumière d’une recherche constante de l’efficacité de la convention d’arbitrage.

Researching the judicial applications of Arab countries to one of the issues that have occupied legal thoughts in the Western world for decades and still in one form or another, the so-called Unilateral Arbitration Clauses, we did not find a discussion of the applicability of this clause within the laws. Even though this condition takes a reasonable space of the legal arguments as previously mentioned, it has even become widely used in contracts, such as tenancy, contracting, and financial investments. The study showed that the above-mentioned clause has recently increased its use in financing contracts, especially with the increasing globalization of banking services and bank transfers. Although banks usually prefer to resort to traditional litigation, lack of similarity in the legal rules and judicial applications related to banking transactions and their difference from one country to another was a reason for the banks preference of resorting to arbitration. There is no examination of the legitimacy of an unequal or optional arbitration clause in Bahrain. Also, the Bahraini and Egyptian courts, to the best of our knowledge, did not decide whether it should be considered null or valid. The same case is applied to the French courts which have no cases that examined this type of clauses except for a case in 2006 and the other is a judgment close to the same issue on October 7, 2015, from the French Court of Cassation. The English and American courts were different; they examined this clause and had several judicial implementations due to the fact that most of the arbitration terms are either related to multinational companies operating within the framework of the Wall Street Stock Exchange in New York or those that stipulate the enforcement of British and Wales law on the provisions of the contract . However, many Arab countries, in general, as well as Bahrain and some Gulf countries, in particular, are seeking in their economic model to attract foreign investments and capital, especially those related to financial and banking industries, to diversify sources of income. The decision of investing or not investing the capital in a country is made by the judicial authority in terms of independence as well as the judicial application of legal texts as these factors are directly reflected in the desire to invest and show the possibility of protecting investors.

The need Settlement of disputes arising from bank credit between national and international rules, protecting the interests of the bank and ensuring its financial rights before the debtor. As the Bank faces different technical and legal difficulties, as well as the multiplicity of legal adaptation, we deal with the rules governing banking accreditation from the point of pleadings law, and the methods of amicable settlement of these disputes and following, and compulsory execution. International efforts are taking the lead in establishing the technical regulation of bank accreditation and setting rules "DOCDEX" in 1997, and the 2015 amendments, which still need more as they do not provide a legal way to implement them. It is necessary to find out legal regulation at the domestic and international levels, which calls for the legislator to intervene to organize its rules and procedures. We have sought in this study to weave the legal entity to seize bank credit within the legally acceptable limits based on a system of seizure of the debtor with third parties against the background of the legal system of documentary credit and the relationships arising from it, and its financial and economic effects that go beyond the parties to the beneficiaries of companies, bodies, and economic institutions, As the matter still requires the existence of special legislation regulating the seizure of bank credit, to ensure the effectiveness of the guarantees surrounding the appropriations by the national legislator and at the international level. This would expand the insurance of bank credit so that the creditors recover their full right directly or by seizing the value of the credit, which calls for organizing this seizure with rules that consider the privacy of this seizure and its rules and are consistent with the required speed in such transactions in a way that protects the creditor from abuse, in a manner that ensures the observance of confidentiality, due process, and the spirit of banking work, anticipate the possible future that will witness the decline of documentary credit and replace it with electronic transactions, the establishment of specialized banking courts that save time and effort.

Esta tese trata da estabilização da demanda no processo arbitral. Ao se falar da estabilização da demanda no processo arbitral, são muito comuns as afirmações de que, no processo arbitral, o tratamento é diferente, pois é mais flexível. Também, comumente se afirma que a estabilização da demanda na arbitragem se daria no momento de assinatura do termo de arbitragem. No entanto, entende-se que o tema não foi analisado de forma aprofundada, e, inclusive, com base nas pesquisas realizadas, poucas foram as obras nacionais que trataram especificamente da estabilização da demanda arbitral. Diante disso, este trabalho buscará analisar como se dá a estabilização da demanda no processo arbitral e as hipóteses de modificação da demanda no decorrer do processo. Para tanto, inicialmente serão apresentadas considerações iniciais, necessárias ao desenvolvimento do trabalho, como a natureza jurídica da arbitragem e sua inclusão na teoria geral do processo. Após, analisa-se o processo arbitral, a formação da demanda na arbitragem e como se dá a definição das regras a serem observadas no processo arbitral, e como são definidos os poderes jurisdicionais dos árbitros. Ainda, ao se falar de estabilização da demanda, necessariamente deve ser estudado o conteúdo da demanda arbitral e sua individualização, ou seja, o que constitui o objeto litigioso do processo arbitral. Em seguida, será feita a investigação de quais são os elementos da demanda arbitral, as teorias que tratam de cada um deles e qual deve ser seu conteúdo mínimo. Ultrapassada essa investigação e fixados os conceitos necessários ao desenvolvimento do tema, serão analisadas as linhas gerais da estabilização da demanda, sua natureza jurídica e os fundamentos que embasam não só a regra da estabilização da demanda, mas também sua mitigação, do que decorre da análise dos sistemas rígidos e flexíveis. Definidos os conceitos gerais acerca da estabilização da demanda arbitral, analisaremos como outros ordenamentos tratam da questão, bem como as disposições no processo estatal brasileiro, para que se possa compreender o que o sistema processual entende como estabilização da demanda e as hipóteses de mitigação. Em seguida, trataremos do momento de estabilização da demanda arbitral, possibilidade de modificação dos elementos da demanda e consequências da violação da regra da estabilização da demanda. Por fim, todo estudo teórico deve mostrar seu viés prático, de modo que as análises que foram feitas possam ser aplicadas pelas partes e pelo árbitro. Por essa razão, o último capítulo é dedicado às recomendações sobre o tratamento da estabilização da demanda na arbitragem.

A presente tese se ocupa de analisar a possibilidade de vinculação de não signatário da convenção de arbitragem ao processo de jurisdição privada via desconsideração da personalidade jurídica no âmbito de arbitragens domésticas. Para tanto, no Capítulo 1, examinam-se premissas teóricas ligadas ao processo de aquisição da personalidade jurídica; de como ele opera limitando a responsabilidade dos integrantes do ente personalizado; e do embate entre autonomia da atividade societária e abuso de direito do qual pode resultar a desconsideração da personalidade jurídica. A teoria desconstitutiva é verificada desde sua criação até os dias atuais, enfatizando-se seu modo de funcionamento à luz dos pressupostos que autorizam sua incidência e os efeitos que se seguem desse reconhecimento segundo a concepção clássica da técnica desconstitutiva. No Capítulo 2, aborda-se o papel da autonomia da vontade para a teoria geral dos contratos e para a arbitragem, apontando-se o alcance e a classificação desta última para, a seguir, adentrar no tema da verificação do consentimento para arbitrar conflitos. Nesse contexto, são analisadas diversas teorias que fundamentam a participação de parte não signatária em arbitragens para se chegar à formulação daquilo que se denominou de consentimento suficiente para arbitrar conflitos. Ao ensejo do estudo das diversas teorias que embasam a extensão da cláusula compromissória, procura-se assinalar distinções, mas também semelhanças, que tornem viável apropriar seus argumentos, quando for o caso, para a específica hipótese de vinculação de terceiro via desconsideração da personalidade jurídica. No Capítulo 3, o epicentro da tese, são investigados os fundamentos que, segundo se defende, autorizam a hipótese. Para tanto, são levados em consideração implicações próprias da natureza jurídica da arbitragem e da regra do kompetenz-kompetenz; a equiparação entre árbitros e juízes togados no exercício de suas funções; o valor da efetividade para a jurisdição arbitral, com foco na análise econômica do direito e no impacto para os custos transacionais da arbitragem ao se rechaçar a hipótese defendida; a boa-fé objetiva como meio apto a identificar o consentimento suficiente; e, finalmente, uma análise individual de alguns trabalhos doutrinários que defendem a hipótese contrária, expondo criticamente seus motivos. Como resultado dos pontos abordados, procura-se responder se a análise da pretensão desconstitutiva por árbitros choca-se com o sistema por alargar os limites da convenção, seja em razão da matéria, seja em virtude dos sujeitos contratantes do pacto arbitral. A conclusão a que se chega é no sentido de que a conjugação desses fatores possibilita a vinculação de parte não signatária ao processo arbitral em razão da utilização abusiva da personalidade jurídica, sendo essa a solução mais consentânea com os propósitos da técnica desconstitutiva estampada no art. 50 do CC e conforme o que dispõe o sistema arbitral.

The right to water in investment arbitration has been one of the most contentious issues before investment arbitration tribunals in recent decades. The privatization of public services, including water and sanitation, and assigning them to foreign investors has caused the right to water as a vital benefit being repeatedly raised in investment arbitrations. However, due to tribunals’ narrow interpretation of jurisdiction and applicable law, this fundamental human right has been considered irrelevant and ignored, and this has fueled the legitimacy crises in investment arbitration. This research seeks to indicate the potentiality of more protection of the right to water through balancing the states international obligations in the two areas of investment law and human rights law. Proposed methods for integrating human rights with investment law include the correct interpretation of jurisdictional clauses and the applicable law based on the treaties interpretation principles, systematic integration and the inclusion of new clauses in investment agreements. طرح حق بر آب در داوری سرمایه‌گذاری یکی از مناقشه‌انگیزترین مباحث پیش روی دیوان‌های داوری در چند دهه اخیر بوده است. خصوصی‌سازی خدمات عمومی از جمله آب و فاضلاب و سپردن آنها به سرمایه‌گذاران خارجی موجب شده تا حق بر آب بعنوان یک منفعت عمومی و حیاتی بارها در داوری‌های سرمایه‌گذاری مطرح شود. با تفسیر مضیق محاکم از شروط صلاحیتی و قانون حاکم، این حق بنیادین بشری در برخی موارد نامربوط و نادیده تلقی شده و این امر به بحران مشروعیت در داوری سرمایه‌گذاری دامن زده است. این جستار می‌کوشد تا امکان حمایت بیشتر از حق بر آب را از طریق برقراری تعادل بین تعهدات بین‌المللی دولت‌ها در دو عرصه حقوق سرمایه‌گذاری و حقوق بشر نشان دهد و در پایان روش‌هایی را برای ادغام این دو از جمله تفسیر درست شروط صلاحیتی و قانون حاکم با تکیه بر اصول تفسیر معاهدات، تلفیق سیستمیک و گنجاندن بندهای جدید در موافقتنامه‌های سرمایه‌گذاری پیشنهاد کند.

La négociation est une institution fascinante du droit de l’investissement, polyvalente et multifonctionnelle. L’étude systématisée de la négociation dans le droit de l’investissement fait ressortir que cette institution est plus qu’un simple moyen permettant de parvenir à des accords. En réalité, la négociation est partout dans le droit de l’investissement. Il s’agit de la seule institution véritablement transversale au droit des investissements, qui intervient de nombreuses manières dans les rapports entre les investisseurs et les États d’accueil. Nous pouvons attester de l’existence des négociations avec la négociation des accords internationaux d’investissement ou de contrats d’investissement entre l’État d’accueil et l’investisseur. De surcroît, la négociation est un instrument au service de l’instance juridictionnelle qui sert aux arbitres dans l’interprétation des accords ainsi que pour la détermination de la responsabilité des parties. Si les divers rôles de la négociation dans le droit de l’investissement ont fortement contribué à l’évolution du droit international, la négociation reste une institution peu connue. Sa nature, sa portée, et son contenu juridique restent peu étudiés et non systématisés dans le droit de l’investissement. De ce fait, cette recherche offre une analyse approfondie de la négociation afin de trouver sa place dans l’ordre juridique de l’investissement (en général) et dans le règlement des litiges (en particulier). Nous examinerons dans cette recherche les nombreux apports de la négociation au droit de l’investissement permettant d’affirmer que la négociation constitue le mécanisme essentiel dans la conclusion des accords ; qu’elle impose aux parties des comportements précis ; qu’elle est un instrument qui permet aux tribunaux internationaux de déterminer la responsabilité des parties en fonction de leurs actions et inactions ; enfin, qu'elle constitue un instrument qui aide la justice arbitrale à interpréter les accords ponctuels. Ainsi, cette recherche a pour ambition de comprendre la nature, la portée et les fonctionnalités de la négociation dans le règlement des litiges transnationaux d’investissement.

A questão fundamental que está por detrás da investigação feita para elaboração deste estudo consiste em saber se a arbitragem é jurisdição. A pesquisa foi conduzida de forma analítica de molde a que conclusões fossem alcançadas no sentido de se saber até que ponto a arbitragem é mesmo jurisdição. É claro que, para que isso fosse feito, isto é, para que esse caminho fosse percorrido, o primeiro tema a ser tratado deveria ser, necessariamente, a própria jurisdição. Trata-se de um conceito construído pela cultura humana cujo conteúdo, exatamente por isso, variou ao longo da história. Seguiu-se a mesma abordagem no que diz respeito à arbitragem. Assim, o primeiro objetivo desta tese foi o de acompanhar a evolução do conceito de jurisdição, ao longo do tempo, como forma de composição de conflitos, desde o direito romano, até a atualidade. Foi explorado o caminho pelo qual passou a jurisdição, com o fim de se investigar por qual motivo, em determinado momento, se começou a afirmar, de modo peremptório, que a jurisdição seria uma atividade realizada exclusivamente pelo Estado. O segundo objetivo consistiu em analisar a arbitragem, pondo-a lado a lado com a jurisdição estatal, explorando-se os pontos que ambos os fenômenos apresentam em comum, assim como os que diferenciam essas duas formas de exercício do poder-dever de julgar. Por isso, foi objeto de investigação e reflexão uma outra função da jurisdição estatal, recentemente assumida de forma clara pela jurisdição estatal, que é a de contribuir para a criação do direito. Procurou-se identificar em que contexto e extensão isso pode acontecer, tanto na jurisdição do Estado, quanto na jurisdição contratada pelas partes. Em um terceiro momento deste estudo, colocamos luzes sobre determinados institutos do processo civil, desenvolvendo-os, também, no terreno do procedimento arbitral. Num quarto e último momento, nossas reflexões se voltaram para o problema de se saber até que ponto a arbitragem seria mesmo jurisdição, equivalente à jurisdição estatal, em todos os seus aspectos, em toda a sua extensão, seus limites e suas funções.

Sometimes foreign investors after the dispute have arisen or when it is predictable and with the intention of bringing the dispute to arbitration, change their nationality or acquire new nationality. The phenomenon called Nationality Planning eases foreign investors’ access to a desirable treaty and increases the chance of bringing disputes against host states.So host states try to avoid these disputes by raising objections to Ratione Temporis or claiming abuse of rights. Arbitration tribunals’ approach towards their Ratione Temporis and abuse of rights is material in host states’ success in limiting Nationality Planning. So the question to be answered is that what requirements are considered by arbitrations in determining Ratione Temporis and abuse of rights and how these two are different. Arbitral precedent shows that these tribunals make distinction between cases of nationality planning contrary to their Ratione Temporis and cases that are considered as abuse of rights. However, in practice their strict approach results in limited acceptation of objections to Ratione Temporis or abuse of rights claims. گاه سرمایه‌گذار خارجی پس از بروز اختلاف یا زمانی که اختلاف قابل پیش‌بینی است و به قصد طرح دعوی در مرجع داوری، اقدام به تغییر تابعیت یا کسب تابعیت جدید می‌نماید. این اقدام که برنامه‌ریزی تابعیت نام دارد، دسترسی سرمایه‌گذار خارجی به یک معاهده سرمایه‌گذاری مطلوب را تسهیل کرده و احتمال طرح دعوی علیه دولت میزبان را افزایش می‌دهد. از این‌رو دولت‌های میزبان تلاش می‌کنند با طرح ایراد به صلاحیت زمانی یا سوء استفاده از حق، مانع پذیرش چنین دعوایی شوند. رویکرد مراجع داوری در احراز صلاحیت زمانی خود و تشخیص موارد سوء استفاده از حق، در موفقیت یا عدم موفقیت دولت میزبان در مقابله با برنامه‌ریزی تابعیت تعیین‌کننده است. بنابراین باید به این پرسش پرداخته شود که مراجع داوری چه شرایطی را برای احراز صلاحیت زمانی و سوء استفاده از حق در نظر می‌گیرند و چگونه میان این دو تمایز قائل می‌شوند. رویه مراجع داوری حاکی از آن است که این مراجع میان مواردی از برنامه‌ریزی تابعیت که مانع صلاحیت زمانی آن‌هاست و مواردی که سوء استفاده از حق تلقی می‌گردد، تمایز قائل می‌شوند. هرچند رویکرد سخت‌گیرانه آنها در عمل موجب می‌شود تنها در موارد محدودی ایراد به صلاحیت زمانی یا ادعای سوء استفاده از حق مورد پذیرش واقع شود.

OHADA is amongst an international organization consists of arbitral tribunal within regions in Africa to deal with international disputes on investment and commercial related. Henceforth, the purpose of the study examines the effectivity of arbitral awards enforcement under the perspectives of OHADA arbitration rules. The study axed through qualitative approach by interpreting legal rules, analyzing cases and commenting the weakness of the charter in terms of enforcement and recognition of arbitral awards. The decision of OHADA arbitral tribunal shall contain intrinsically legal effect to country members, however it leads problematics as the enforcement and recognition rules may be different in every country involved. Hence, the study interpreted the legal rules concerning enforcement and recognition of arbitral awards, effectiveness of the rules. In addition it exerted also the challenges and significant recommendation for improving the arbitration rules on enforcement of arbitral awards. It is found the weakness of the arbitral awards locates on refusal of concerned State to enforce the awards under the domestic law for undefinable conflict of interest

La thèse porte sur « L’exécution des sentences arbitrales contre les personnes publiques de l’OHADA ». Elle a pour but de démontrer comment mettre en œuvre ces sentences sans se heurter à l’immunité d’exécution des personnes qui en bénéficient. En effet, en l’absence d’une exception arbitrale, l’interdiction de l’exécution forcée et des mesures conservatoires à l’encontre de ces personnes semble s’étendre à l’exécution forcée des sentences arbitrales contre les personnes publiques de l’OHADA. Or, comme ces dernières, l’immunité d’exécution a également un fondement contractuel ; c’est une règle d’ordre public de protection à laquelle le bénéficiaire peut renoncer. Donc, son application ne serait requise que si son bénéficiaire n’y a pas renoncé. Mais, pour être valable, la renonciation à l’immunité d’exécution doit être expresse, au sens du droit international coutumier, dont fait partie la Convention des Nations Unies sur l’immunité juridictionnelle des Etats et de leurs biens du 2 décembre 2004, applicable en droit OHADA, pour raison de droit. Cette condition de validité de la renonciation pose le problème de l’efficacité des contrats soumis aux règles impératives du droit public ou des conventions et règlements d’arbitrage. Alors, faudrait-il envisager la réécriture des modèles habituels de conventions et règlements d’arbitrage pour y intégrer cette condition ? Cette approche garantirait l’effectivité des sentences arbitrales administratives, sur le fondement de la force obligatoire des contrats (Pacta sunt servenda) et de leur exécution de bonne foi. Aussi, pourrait-on renforcer cette renonciation par la mention de biens affectés à l’activité en cause ou à l’exécution de la sentence qui s’ensuivra sans lien avec l’activité qui y a donné lieu. En tout état de cause, l’immunité d’exécution ne s’oppose ni à l’identification des débiteurs des condamnations pécuniaires des personnes publiques, ni à l’exequatur des sentences arbitrales adm inistratives, ni même à l’exécution volontaire ou spontanée desdites sentences. Ainsi, en dépit de sa conception absolue ou stricte, l’immunité d’exécution de l’OHADA a des limites à l’égard des sentences arbitrales administratives.

International commercial arbitration imposes heavy costs to the parties involved. In this regard, one of the new phenomena in international commercial arbitration is "financing of court costs by a third party investor. There are several reasons for the emergence of a third party investor: 1- involved parties may not have the resources to pay for the costs of arbitration or they may be reluctant to use their funds to finance the litigation: 2. the uncertainty of receiving compensation as a result of paying the arbitration fees might encourage the parties to transfer this risk to a third party; 3. having its own advantages and disadvantages. Since the funder holds the power of the purse, TPF entails the risk of the control of the claim being transferred to the third party funder. We might ask whether international arbitration tribunals should examine the extent of the investor's influence in determining the allocation of costs or not. In addition, is it essential to disclose the third parties contracts confidential? Overall, it is concluded that those mentioned Tribunals should allocate and guarantee the arbitration cost and agree on disclosing of third parties fund contracts under urgent conditions by international arbitration tribunal. مراجعه به داوری تجاری بین­ المللی هزینه­ های کلانی را برای طرفین درگیر در فرآیند داوری به همراه دارد و تأمین این هزینه ­ها در خیلی از موارد به‌صورت مانع در مراجعه به داوری نمود پیدا می‌کند. در همین راستا یکی از پدیده‌های جدید در داوری تجاری بین ­المللی، «تأمین مالی هزینه دادرسی توسط سرمایه ­گذار ثالث» است. ظهور سرمایه­ گذار ثالث دلایل متعددی دارد؛ اولاً طرفین دعوی ممکن است فاقد امکانات مالی کافی برای هزینه ­های داوری باشند، ثانیاً ممکن است طرفین دعوی تمایلی به استفاده از منابع مالی خود برای تأمین مالی دادرسی پرهزینه نداشته باشند، ثالثاً عدم قطعیت ذاتی که در زمینه امکان اخذ خسارت در نتیجه دادرسی وجود دارد می ­تواند باعث تمایل طرف منازعه به انتقال این ریسک به شخص ثالث شود. پرسش این است که آیا محاکم تجاری بین‌المللی تعیین تخصیص هزینه‌ها بپردازد یا خیر؟ و آیا افشاسازی قراردادهای شخص ثالث ضروری می‌باشد؟ در نهایت این نتیجه حاص می‌شود که محاکم مذکور باید به تعیین تخصیص و تضمین هزینه‌های داوری پرداخته و از سویی با افشاسازی قراردادهای تامین مالی شخص ثالث در داوری تجاری بین ­المللی، در شرایط خاص و ضروری موافقت نمایند.

As international trade is expanding, international trade and tax disputes are increasing. Under international tax agreements, there are two mechanisms for the resolution of potential disputes between contracting States. These agreements mostly rely on a form of negotiation known as the “Mutual Agreement Process (MAP)” as the main mechanism for the settlement of disputes. During the last decade, the inclusion of “ad hoc arbitration” as a new dispute resolution mechanism in international tax treaties has become popular to augment the MAP. Iran has long concluded several international tax agreements with several countries for the avoidance of double taxation. Due to Iran’s macroeconomic policy for relying more on tax revenues as an alternative to revenues from the petroleum industry, it is important that the Iranian lawyers seek to focus more on tax law and tax dispute resolution mechanisms. The purpose of this article is to introduce and critically analyse the dispute resolution mechanisms of international tax agreements. In this article, to make some suggestions for the improvement of the dispute resolution system of tax treaties, the strengths and weaknesses of the MAP and ad hoc arbitration, will be scrutinised by adopting a descriptive-analytical approach. همسو با گسترش تجارت فراسرزمینی،‌ میزان دعاوی مرتبط با تجارت و مالیات‌های بین‌المللی نیز افزایش یافته است. در بسیاری از معاهده‌های مالیاتی بین‌المللی برای حل اختلافات، دو ساز و کار با عنوان «فرآیند توافق دوجانبه» و «داوری موردی» وجود دارد. فرآیند توافق دوجانبه که مبتنی بر مذاکره بین طرفین معاهده است بعنوان ساز و کار اصلی و داوری موردی هم که در یک دهه اخیر در این معاهده‌ها رواج یافته، بعنوان ساز و کار مکمل فرآیند توافق دوجانبه برای حل اختلافات استفاده می‌شوند. ایران از دیرباز جهت اجتناب از مالیات مضاعف، معاهده‌های مالیاتی متعددی را با کشورهای مختلف منعقد نموده است. همچنین سیاست کلان اقتصادی کشور در سال‌های اخیر مبتنی بر اتکای بیشتر به درآمدهای مالیاتی بعنوان جایگزینی برای درآمدهای نفتی بوده است. لذا اهمیت شناخت این نوع معاهده‌ها و‌ مکانیسم‌های حل و فصل اختلافات آنها برای حقوقدانان کشور بیش از پیش آشکار می‌شود. هدف این مقاله معرفی،‌ تحلیل و نقد ساز و کارهای موجود در معاهده‌های مالیاتی بین‌المللی برای حل اختلافات می‌باشد. در این مقاله نقاط ضعف و قوت فرآیند توافق دوجانبه و داوری موردی به شیوه توصیفی-تحلیلی بیان و راهکارهایی جهت بهبود این مکانیسم‌ها ارائه می‌شود.

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In the ever-growing business world impacted by globalization, many commercial contracts nowadays contain an arbitration clause. This article focuses on the history behind arbitration as an alternative method of dispute resolution and its penetration to the forefront of mechanisms for resolving commercial disputes -with focus on England, France, and the United States. The article also delves into some of the key questions related to the relationship between an arbitration clause and the underlying contract in which it is contained. And those are the infamous separability and competence-competence doctrines. The author’s conclusion is that the efficiency of an arbitration clause is feasible only if its autonomy is entrenched and safeguarded from preventative and baseless court intervention. In that regard, the author addresses the consequences, current challenges, judicial and academic discourse, and the need for improvement when it comes to these two arbitral principles -all with the goal to provide contracting parties with forethought as to what to consider when drafting their contracts as to avoid unwelcome consequences.