The Legal Framework for Arbitration in Cambodia

General Information

• UNCITRAL Model-Law based: Yes.
• Legal Provisions: The Commercial Arbitration Law of the Kingdom of Cambodia of 6 March 2006. 

Multilateral Conventions

• New York Convention: Yes (ratification/accession: 5 January 1960); reservations: none.
• European Convention: No.
• ICSID Convention: Yes (ratification/accession: 20 December 2004); reservations: none.
• Energy Charter Treaty: No.

Arbitral Institutions

• Cambodia´s Arbitration Council (for labour disputes only) and National Arbitration Center (for commercial disputes).
• National Commercial Arbitration Centre of the Kingdom of Cambodia (NCAC).

Last updated November 2016