Arbitration in Poland

recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


All documents for the issue: 48


Case Law: 8 » | Bibliography: 34 » | Publications ADR. Arbirtaż i Mediacja: 6 »

id: 20355

Polish Supreme Court order dated 20 May 2011 Case No. IV CZ 18/11 »

1. Final refusal to issue an order enforcing an arbitration award definitively eliminates the possibility of treating the award as equivalent to a state court judgment, and thus eliminates the result of the proceeding up to that point before the arbitration court.

2. Without doubt, the debtor has standing to file a petition to set aside an arbitration award. The creditor is deprived of such possibility, however. A party satisfied with the resolution may only commence a proceeding provided for in Civil Procedure Code Art. 1212 §2. In the situation of the creditor, the proceeding for recognition or enforcement of the award is the only procedure available to such entity for review of the propriety and legality of the determination by a domestic arbitration court.

3. The Civil Procedure Code provides for two forms of review of the rulings of the arbitration court. Alongside the proceeding for enforcement of the rbitration award is the petition to set aside the arbitration award. ... These are independent proceedings, based on independent grounds. ... From the point of view of the proceeding before the state court, the case is definitively ended only by the proceeding on the petition to set aside the arbitration award.

4. An order on recognition or enforcement of an arbitration award issued abroad—unlike an order on recognition or enforcement of a domestic arbitration award—is analogous to rulings issued in the main proceedings on the merits of the case.

5. A cassation appeal on recognition or enforcement of a domestic arbitration award is impermissible.

Case no.: IV CZ 18/11  

Key issues: petition to set aside arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award


id: 20250

Polish Supreme Court order dated 4 July 2008 Case No. I CZ 139/07 »

1. An analysis of the current regulations of Part Five of the Civil Procedure Code supports ... arguments in favour of accepting the differentiation so far in admissibility of a cassation appeal from the ruling of the court of second instance on recognition or enforcement of an arbitration award issued in Poland, or issued abroad.

2. The nature of a proceeding for recognition or enforcement of an arbitration award or a settlement concluded before an arbitration court is not uniform, and must be viewed differently depending on whether the proceeding concerns an arbitration award issued in Poland or a settlement concluded in Poland, or an arbitration award issued abroad or a settlement concluded before an arbitration court abroad.

3. A proceeding for recognition or enforcement of an arbitration award issued abroad or a settlement concluded before an arbitration court abroad cannot be relegated to the role of an auxiliary proceeding as is the case with a proceeding for recognition or enforcement of an arbitration award issued in Poland or a settlement concluded before an arbitration court in Poland. This conclusion is confirmed by the broader scope of review of an award or settlement by the state court in the case of an arbitration award issued abroad or a settlement concluded before an arbitration court abroad. For these reasons, a proceeding for recognition or enforcement of an arbitration award issued abroad or a settlement concluded before an arbitration court abroad should be treated as a “counterpart” to the proceeding in the matter.

4. Pursuant to Civil Procedure Code Art. 3941 §2 in connection with Art. 13 §2, an interlocutory appeal to the Supreme Court from an order of the court of second instance dismissing a petition to renew the proceeding in a case seeking recognition or enforcement of an arbitration award issued in Poland or a settlement concluded before an arbitration court in Poland is impermissible.

Case no.: I CZ 139/07  

Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award


id: 20208

Polish Supreme Court order dated 13 October 2004 (Case No. I CZ 102/04) »

1. An order in which the appellate court, upon consideration of an interlocutory appeal, refused enforcement of an arbitration award is not a ruling ending the proceedings in the case within the meaning of Civil Procedure Code Art. 392. The order does not end the proceedings as a whole, because as a result of refusal to issue an order enforcing the award, the case returns to the arbitration court for reconsideration.

2. No cassation appeal lies from an order in which the court of second instance, upon consideration of an interlocutory appeal, refused enforcement of an arbitration award.

Case no.: I CZ 102/04  

Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id: 20163

Polish Supreme Court ruling dated 22 September 1999 Case No. I CKN 654/99 »

1. For the parties to an arbitration proceeding, the opportunity to file a petition to set aside the arbitration award constitutes a specific means of review of the award issued in the proceeding, and the ruling by the state court concluding the proceeding on the petition to set aside the arbitration award definitively concludes the proceeding before the state court. Thus only such a ruling may be characterized as “concluding the proceeding in the matter.” ... Therefore such characterization may be not be ascribed to an order on enforcement of an arbitration award.

2. No cassation appeal will lie from an order by the court of second instance denying an interlocutory appeal from an order on enforcement of an arbitration award, because it is not a ruling concluding the proceeding in the matter within the meaning of Civil Procedure Code Art. 392 §1.

Case no.: I CKN 654/99  

Key issues: petition to set aside arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id: 20140

Polish Supreme Court order dated 28 October 1993 Case No. II CRN 70/93 »

1. The state court may rely on notorious facts or facts of which it has judicial notice as grounds for finding that an arbitration award or settlement by its content violates the rule of law or principles of social coexistence in the Republic of Poland. These clearly include that parties who are business entities make numerous dispositions or other shifting of their assets, unfavourable to one of them, but the negative effects of such consensual dispositions are essentially borne by the creditors of one or both of the parties voluntarily disposing of the assets they hold.

2. The state court may not ... sanction and assist in enforcement of a ruling that causes incomplete or improper performance of an obligation in the form of payment of a debt.

Case no.: II CRN 70/93  

Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id: 20122

Polish Supreme Court order dated 7 March 1979 Case No. III CRN 10/79 »

1. Which cases that are subject to consideration by the state courts may be submitted to arbitration is determined by the regulations governing arbitration proceedings.

2. Issuance of an enforcement clause must be preceded by a legally final ruling by the state court, pursuant to Civil Procedure Code Art. 711, confirming the enforceability of the arbitration award.

3. The only cases falling under the non-adversarial procedure that may be heard by an arbitration court are those rather rare cases whose nature allows for this, that is, those that meet the grounds [for arbitrability] provided in Civil Procedure Code Art. 697 §1.

4. Under current law, adversarial and non-adversarial proceedings are parallel tracks for judicial proceedings, and the non-adversarial procedure in property matters in which the court commences the proceeding upon application is not so different from the rules applicable in an adversarial proceeding that mere submission of a given matter to resolution through the non-adversarial procedure results in exclusion of the possibility of submitting such matter to an arbitration court for resolution.

Case no.: III CRN 10/79  

Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, jurisdiction of arbitration court, arbitration clause, arbitrability of dispute


id: 20119

Polish Supreme Court resolution dated 20 February 1974 Case No. III CZP 2/74 »

1. A creditor’s application to the state court for confirmation of the enforceability of an arbitration award, as well as an application for issuance of an enforcement clause for the award, do not interrupt the running of the statute of limitations on the claims covered by the arbitration award.

2. The state court’s confirmation of the enforceability of an arbitration award and issuance of an enforcement clause for the award are two distinct actions by the court, made under separate procedures: namely, confirmation of enforceability occurs in a proceeding provided for in Part One, Book Three of the Civil Procedure Code, which governs the procedure before the arbitration court and before the state court in matters concerning arbitration awards, while issuance of an enforcement clause for an arbitration award occurs in an execution proceeding (Part Two, Book One of the Civil Procedure Code). Moreover, an enforcement clause may be issued only for an arbitration award as to which a legally final order of the state court confirming its enforceability has been issued pursuant to Civil Procedure Code Art. 711.

3. Arbitration, based on the agreement of the parties and carried out by arbitrators, persons trusted by the parties, who in performance of their voluntarily assumed obligations are generally constrained by procedural regulations to only a small degree, must of necessity be overseen by the state courts. Such oversight has to do on one hand with the correctness of the appointment of the arbitration court and the parties’ selection of the arbitrators, and on the other hand with the substance of the actual ruling by the arbitration court. By its nature, the review of the substance of the award cannot includes the very correctness or justice of the resolution, but is limited to whether the ruling was issued under conditions assuring the parties protection of their rights, and whether the resolution violates the rule of law or principles of social coexistence. Review of an arbitration award in the broadest sense is performed by a state court only upon request of a party, asserted in the form of a petition to set aside the arbitration award, as provided in Civil Procedure Code Art. 712 ff, limited in time and in the scope of grounds for challenging the award. However, review of the consistency of the award with principles of the rule of law and principles of social coexistence is made by the state court on its own motion, and the institution of confirmation of enforceability of the award serves this purpose.

4. An order confirming the enforceability of an arbitration award, although a necessary condition for permitting enforcement of the award through state compulsion, does not in itself constitute an act seeking to enforce the award. Thus asserting a demand for confirmation of enforceability is not among the acts undertaken “with the immediate purpose of enforcement, declaration or security” of the claim adjudged by the award within the meaning of Civil Code Art. 123 §1(1).

Case no.: III CZP 2/74  

Key issues: petition to set aside arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id: 20107

Polish Supreme Court order dated 5 September 1967 Case No. I CZ 20/67 »

In a proceeding seeking issuance of an order on the enforceability of an arbitration award (Civil Procedure Code Art. 711 §3), and in a proceeding for issuance of an enforcement clause for such award (Civil Procedure Code Art. 781 §4), the court is not authorized to assess whether the claim exists. Thus, for example, the issue of the claim being time-barred may be considered only if there is a legally final judgment upholding the relevant petition opposing execution (Civil Procedure Code Art. 840 §1(2)).

Case no.: I CZ 20/67  

Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id 30033

Allerhand Maurycy

Arbitration in the Transition Period [Original title: Sąd polubowny w okresie przejściowym]

Głos Prawa 1933, No. 4, p. 188-201


Key issues: arbitrator, arbitration award, arbitration clause, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, settlement before arbitration court


id 30886

Błaszczak Łukasz

Arbitration Award in Civil Proceedings [Original title: Wyrok sądu polubownego w postępowaniu cywilnym]

Warszawa 2010, pp. 505


Key issues: arbitration award, petition to set aside arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award, settlement before arbitration court


id 31052

Błaszczak Łukasz, Kuźmicka-Sulikowska Joanna

Application for Court Enforcement Clause and Application for Declaration of Enforceability in Relation to Interruption of Period of Claim Limitation [Original title: Wniosek o nadanie klauzuli wykonalności i wniosek o stwierdzenie wykonalności a przerwanie biegu przedawnienia roszczeń]

PPC 2012, No. 2, p. 209-244


Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award


id 30952

Pazdan Maksymilian, Sołtysiński Stanisław, Wardyński Tomasz, Włodyka Stanisław, Okolski Józef, Całus Andrzej

A Commemorative Volume for 60 years of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw [Original title: Księga pamiątkowa 60-lecia Sądu Arbitrażowego przy Krajowej Izbie Gospodarczej w Warszawie]

Warszawa 2010, pp. 887


Key issues: general works


id 30603

Dzikiewicz Lech

Risk of Recognition and Enforcement of an Arbitration Award Abroad [Original title: Ryzyko uznania i wykonania za granicą orzeczenia arbitrażowego]

HZ 1970, No. 1, p. 24-28


Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id 30072

Gołąb Stanisław

Arbitration Courts in the Draft Polish Civil Procedure [Original title: Sądy polubowne według projektu polskiej procedury cywilnej.]

Pal. 1926, p. 49-66


Key issues: arbitrator, arbitrability of dispute, arbitration award, arbitration clause, arbitration court procedure, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id 30071

Gołąb Stanisław

Enforceability Clause of an Arbitration Award [Original title: Klauzula wykonalności wyroku sądu polubownego.]

Gazeta Sądowa Warszawska 1930, No. 15, p. 202-204


Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id 30706

Kordasiewicz Bogudar, Sadowski Wojciech

Proceedings in Cases for Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitration Awards in Poland. Remarks in the Light of the Amendment to the Civil Procedure Code [Original title: Postępowanie w sprawach o uznanie i stwierdzenie wykonalności orzeczeń sądów polubownych w Polsce. Uwagi na tle nowelizacji Kodeksu postępowania cywilnego]

KPP 2007, No. 2, p. 525-559


Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id 30085

Kuratowski Roman

Some Remarks on the Relation of State Courts to Arbitration Courts under the Civil Procedure Code [Original title: Kilka uwag o stosunku sądów państwowych do sądów polubownych według K.P.C.]

Głos Sądownictwa 1933, No. 4, p. 208-213


Key issues: petition to set aside arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, state court assistance


id 30757

Łaszczuk Maciej, Szpara Justyna

Post-Arbitration Proceedings [Original title: Postępowanie postarbitrażowe]

[in:] Andrzej Szumański (ed.), The System of Commercial Law. Commercial Arbitration. Volume 8, Chapter 12 [System Prawa Handlowego. Arbitraż handlowy. Tom 8, Rozdział 12], Warszawa 2009, p. 559-717


Key issues: New York Convention, petition to set aside arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award


id 30089

Machalski Stanisław

What is the Competent Court for Issuance of an Enforceability Clause for an Arbitration Award or a Settlement Entered into Before an Arbitration Court? [Original title: Jaki sąd jest właściwy do nadania klauzuli wykonalności wyrokowi sądu polubownego, lub ugodzie zawartej przed tym sądem?]

PS 1936, No. 10, p. 320-322


Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id 31042

Morek Rafał, Sadowski Wojciech

Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in Poland

[in:] Arbitration in Poland, Warszawa 2011, p. 125-140


Key issues: New York Convention, settlement before arbitration court, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award, arbitration award


id 30425

Muliński Maciej

Proceedings for Granting an Enforcement Clause to a Domestic Enforcement Title [Original title: Postępowanie o nadanie klauzuli wykonalności krajowemu tytułowi egzekucyjnemu]

Warszawa 2005, pp. 298


Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id 30613

N. Z.

The New York Convention (Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards made in New York, on 10.VI.1958). List of Convention States as of 13.II.1965 [Original title: Konwencja Nowojorska (Konwencja o uznawaniu i wykonywaniu zagranicznych orzeczeń arbitrażowych sporządzona w Nowym Jorku, 10.VI.1958 r.) Wykaz państw konwencyjnych według stanu na dzień 13.II.1965 r.]

PHZ 1965, No. 8, p. 120-123


Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id 30960

Opaliński Łukasz

Arbitration in Domestic Trade [Original title: Arbitraż w krajowym obrocie gospodarczym]

[in:] Prace laureatów konkursu im. Prof. Jerzego Jakubowskiego, edycja druga [Works of the Winners of Prof. Jerzy Jakubowski Contest, Second Edition], Warszawa 2005, p. 195-244


Key issues: general works


id 30961

Osiński Marcin

Proceedings Before Polish Arbitration Courts – Selected Issues [Original title: Postępowanie przed polskimi sądami polubownymi - wybrane zagadnienia]

[in:] Prace laureatów konkursu im. Prof. Jerzego Jakubowskiego, edycja druga [Works of the Winners of Prof. Jerzy Jakubowski Contest, Second Edition], Warszawa 2005, p.121-193


Key issues: general works


id 31048

Pagacz Gabriela

Contents of the Polish Public Policy

Biul. Arb. 2012, No. 17, p. 89-96, [Article in English]


Key issues: petition to set aside arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award


id 30888

Pełczyński Michał

Contractual Change of Court's Venue in Proceedings on Recognition of Arbitration Award [Original title: Umowna zmiana właściwości miejscowej sądu delibacyjnego w sprawie o uznanie wyroku arbitrażowego]

PPH 2010, No. 10, p. 37-42


Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id 30967

Rajski Jerzy

The Limits of Arbitral Tribunal's Autonomy in Respect of Application of Provisions of Law in Commercial Cases [Original title: Granice autonomii sądu arbitrażowego w odniesieniu do stosowania przepisów prawa w sprawach ze stosunków gospodarczych]

PPH 2011, No. 1, p. 6-9


Key issues: arbitration court procedure, petition to set aside arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award


id 30969

Rajski Jerzy

The Limits of the Arbitral Tribunal's Freedom in Respect of Applying Provisions of Law in Commercial Cases [Original title: Granice swobody sądu arbitrażowego w zakresie stosowania przepisów prawa w sprawach gospodarczych]

Arbitration e-Review 2011, No. 1, p. 5-10


Key issues: arbitration court procedure, petition to set aside arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award


id 31026

Sołtysiński Stanisław

Investment Arbitration, Cohabitation with the System of Justice, Increasing Costs and Other Problems of Arbitration [Original title: Arbitraż inwestycyjny, kohabitacja z wymiarem sprawiedliwości, rosnące koszty i inne problemy sądownictwa polubownego]

[in:] J. Gudowski, K. Weitz (ed.), Aurea praxis, aurea theoria. Księga pamiątkowa ku czci Profesora Tadeusza Erecińskiego, tom II [Aurea praxis, aurea theoria. A Commemorative Volume in Honour of Professor Tadeusz Ereciński, Vol. II], Warszawa 2011, p. 1839-1870


Key issues: general works


id 30883

Strumiłło Tomasz

Legal Effects of an Arbitral Award [Original title: Skutki prawne wyroku arbitrażowego]

Biul. Arb. 2010, No. 3, p. 96-115


Key issues: arbitration award, petition to set aside arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award


id 30683

Szumański Andrzej

The System of Commercial Law. Commercial Arbitration. Volume 8 [Original title: System Prawa Handlowego. Arbitraż handlowy. Tom 8]

Warszawa 2009, pp. 1200


Key issues: general works


id 30953

Tevini Anna Giulia

Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitration Awards in the People’s Republic of China [Original title: Die Anerkennung und Vollstreckung von Schiedssprüchen in der Volksrepublik China]

[in:] Józef Okolski, Andrzej Całus, Maksymilian Pazdan, Stanisław Sołtysiński, Tomasz Wardyński, Stanisław Włodyka (ed.) Essays in Honour of 60 years of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw [Księga pamiątkowa 60-lecia Sądu Arbitrażowego przy Krajowej Izbie Gospodarczej w Warszawie], Warszawa 2010, p. 650-668


Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award


id 30357

Tomaszewski Maciej

Effectiveness of Legal Protection before Arbitration Courts. Polish Experience [Original title: Skuteczność ochrony prawnej przed sądami polubownymi. Doświadczenia polskie]

PS 2006, No. 1, p. 34-64


Key issues: arbitrator, arbitration award, arbitration court procedure, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award, state court assistance


id 31028

Tomaszewski Maciej

Legal Effects of an Arbitration Award [Original title: Skutki prawne wyroku sądu polubownego]

[in:] J. Gudowski, K. Weitz (ed.), Aurea praxis, aurea theoria. Księga pamiątkowa ku czci Profesora Tadeusza Erecińskiego, tom II [Aurea praxis, aurea theoria. A Commemorative Volume in Honour of Professor Tadeusz Ereciński, Vol. II], Warszawa 2011, p. 1899-1932


Key issues: petition to set aside arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, arbitration award


id 30633

Trammer Henryk

Commentary on the Supreme Court Ruling of 24.10.1962, 3 CR 660/1961 (re: PRL Agreement on Mutual Recognition and Enforcement of Court Judgements) [Original title: Glosa do orzeczenia SN z dnia 24.10.1962, 3 CR 660/1961 (dot. umowy PRL o wzajemnym uznawaniu i wykonywaniu orzeczeń sądowych)]

PiP 1963, No. 5-6, p. 993-996


Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id 30556

Tynel Andrzej

Domestic and Foreign Arbitration Awards Recognition and Enforcement Procedure in the Russian Federation [Original title: Procedura wykonania krajowych i zagranicznych orzeczeń arbitrażowych w Federacji Rosyjskiej]

PUG 1997, No. 2, p. 21-26


Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award


id 30366

Tynel Andrzej

Enforcement of Domestic Arbitration Awards [Original title: Wykonywanie krajowych orzeczeń sądów polubownych]

PUG 1997, No. 7-8, p. 9-14


Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id 30363

Tynel Andrzej

Recognition and Enforcement of an Arbitration Award [Original title: Uznanie i stwierdzenie wykonalności wyroku Sądu Polubownego]

PUG 2005, No. 9, p. 14-17


Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award


id 30377

Weitz Karol

A Cassation Complaint in Cases concerning Ascertainment or Recognition of Executability of a Sentence of the Arbitration Court or a Settlement Reached in Such Court [Original title: Skarga kasacyjna w sprawach o uznanie lub stwierdzenie wykonalności wyroku sądu polubownego lub ugody zawartej przed takim sądem]

Pal. 2009, No. 3-4, p. 226-231; Pal. 2010, No. 3, p. 212-216


Key issues: recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award


id 31015

Wiśniewski Andrzej W.

International Commercial Arbitration in Poland. The Legal Status of Arbitration and Arbitrators [Original title: Międzynarodowy arbitraż handlowy w Polsce. Status prawny arbitrażu i arbitrów]

Warszawa 2011, pp. 612


Key issues: general works


id 30977

Zachariasiewicz Maciej

Public Policy as a Ground for Refusing the Recognition or Enforcement of the Arbitral Award in the Polish Arbitration Law Under a Comparative Perspective [Original title: Klauzula porządku publicznego jako podstawa odmowy uznania lub wykonania orzeczenia sądu polubownego w polskim prawie arbitrażowym na tle prawnoporównawczym]

PPPM 2010, No. 6, p. 61-114


Key issues: New York Convention, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award, arbitrability of dispute


id 31031

Zielony Andrzej

Introduction of an Arbitration Award to the Domestic Legal System on the Example of Selected Foreign Legal Systems [Original title: Wprowadzanie wyroku sądu polubownego do krajowego porządku prawnego na przykładzie wybranych obcych systemów prawnych]

[in:] J. Gudowski, K. Weitz (ed.), Aurea praxis, aurea theoria. Księga pamiątkowa ku czci Profesora Tadeusza Erecińskiego, tom II [Aurea praxis, aurea theoria. A Commemorative Volume in Honour of Professor Tadeusz Ereciński, Vol. II], Warszawa 2011, p. 2005-2080


Key issues: petition to set aside arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award, arbitration award