Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ The parties may reg­u­late the ar­bit­ra­tion pro­ced­ure:

a.

them­selves;

b.

by re­fer­ring to a set of ar­bit­ra­tion rules;

c.

ac­cord­ing to a pro­ced­ur­al law of their choice.

² If the parties have not reg­u­lated the pro­ced­ure, it is de­term­ined by the ar­bit­ral tribunal.

³ The chair­per­son of the ar­bit­ral tribunal may de­cide on cer­tain pro­ced­ur­al ques­tions if he or she is au­thor­ised to do so by the parties or by the oth­er mem­bers of the tribunal.

⁴ The ar­bit­ral tribunal must guar­an­tee the equal treat­ment of the parties and their right to be heard in ad­versari­al pro­ceed­ings.

⁵ Each party may act through a rep­res­ent­at­ive.

⁶ An ob­jec­tion to a breach of the rules of pro­ced­ure must be filed im­me­di­ately after it has been re­cog­nised or would have been re­cog­nis­able had due di­li­gence beenexercised, otherwiseit may not sub­sequently be claimed that the rules were breached.¹⁹⁰