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BITARTU

“We manage extrajudicial conflict resolution procedures for the Basque cooperative movement: arbitration, conciliation and mediation; training in negotiation and mediation”

Bitartu, the Basque Cooperative Arbitration Service, is a unique model for the provision of public services in the administration of justice through complementary conflict resolution tools for the Basque cooperative movement.

Complementary conflict resolution is the term used to describe the methods, outside of judicial processes, that can be used to help resolve conflicts that arise in any cooperative coexistence.

Incardinated in the Superior Council of Cooperatives, Bitartu provides orientation, conciliation, mediation and arbitration services to cooperatives and cooperative members.

Bitartu Services

Bitartu Orientates

Complementary conflict resolution is the term used to describe the methods, outside of judicial processes, that can be used to help resolve conflicts that arise in any cooperative coexistence.

Bitartu makes available to cooperatives and cooperative members the guidance service, for the complementary resolution of conflicts through which the legal adviser will assist you.

Bitartu Reconciles

Conciliation is a non-adversarial mechanism for resolving the dispute, through which an agreement is sought in an appearance before Bitartu, who may even propose the agreement itself. In conciliation proceedings, Bitartu will act as a third party.

The consensus in the solution of the conflict is resolved by the parties before this third party.

Bitartu Mediates

Mediation is an assisted negotiation system, whereby the parties involved in a conflict try to resolve the dispute themselves with the help of Bitartu who acts as a facilitator and conduit of communication.

In mediation procedures, the conflicting parties resolve their differences by reaching an agreement themselves with the help of a neutral third party: the mediator. Bitartu will facilitate the choice of the professional for mediation.

Bitartu Arbitrates

In arbitration as an out-of-court conflict resolution tool, the parties submit to a regulated procedure and entrust Bitartu with the appointment of an arbitrator who will adopt a binding decision for both parties applying law or equity, thus ending the dispute controversy. In arbitration proceedings, the parties agree to submit to the decision of a third party who acts as arbitrator

and is appointed by the Euskadi Higher Council of Cooperatives.

Regulations of the Basque Cooperative Arbitration Service

Ley 60/2003, de 23 de diciembre, de Arbitraje.
Law 60/2003, of December 23, on Arbitration

BOE 26-12-2003 No. 309

Boletín Oficial del País Vasco
Modification of the Regulation of the Higher Council of Cooperatives of Euskadi on resolution of Conflicts in the coops. Basques.

BOPV of 05-09-2013

Boletín Oficial del País Vasco
Regulation on dispute resolution procedures in Basque cooperatives

BOPV of 02-16-2012

Ley Orgánica 5/2011, de 20 de mayo
Law 11/2011, of May 21, on Arbitration

BOE of 05-21-2011

Forms

Selection of arbitration awards

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