The New Swiss Rules of International Arbitration ("Swiss Rules")

On 1 January 2004, the new "Swiss Rules of International Arbitration" ("Swiss Rules") entered into force. The Swiss Rules were adopted by the six major Swiss chambers of commerce providing arbitration services (i.e. Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Lugano and Zurich) and mark an important step in Swiss international commercial arbitration, as they provide arbitration users with a modern and proven set of rules, which are uniform for all of the six participating chambers.