Dispute avoidance and settlement

The IC was in the process of creating an IC Sub-group on Dispute Avoidance and Settlement (DAS) to oversee Dispute Avoidance and Settlement activities. For more information on the proposed IC Sub-group on DAS, please visit the IC Sub-group on Dispute Avoidance and Settlement page. However after a prolonged call for experts, insufficient nominations were received. The CPM Bureau at their June 2019 meeting requested the IPPC Secretariat to develop a paper for the October 2019 SPG meeting, outlining the issues. After reviewing the issues and discussing options for the next steps, the SPG recommended, and the IC in November 2019 agreed, to put this work on hold.

HISTORY

CPM-12 (2017) agreed that the National Reporting Obligations Advisory Group (NROAG), Triennial Review Group (TRG) and Subsidiary Body on Dispute Settlement (SBDS) be dissolved with their functions and procedures transferred to the Implementation and Capacity Development Committee (IC).

CPM-16 (2022) adopted revised IPPC Dispute Settlement Procedures and transferred oversight of the dispute settlement process from the IC to the CPM Bureau, recognizing the need to consider how best to institutionalize this oversight function on a more permanent basis. CPM requested the Bureau to consider whether the newly adopted IPPC Dispute Settlement Procedures could be simplified, be more user-friendly (including a diagram of the procedures), analyze this question of long-term oversight, and present its options and recommendations to the CPM17 (2023).

The CPM-17 approved the recommendations of the CPM Bureau to have the IPPC secretary as primary intake point for IPPC dispute submission. The CPM also approved the establishment of a group composed of three Bureau members, to function as the Dispute Settlement Oversight Body under CPM Bureau oversight.

The revised IPPC Dispute Settlement Procedures approved by CPM-16 (2022) is posted below.

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