(1) Members of the Executive Committee and staff of the DIS are not permitted to act as arbitrators or external party representatives in arbitration proceedings conducted under the DIS Arbitration Rules (“DIS arbitration proceedings”).
(2) Members of the Presiding Committee (section 7 (2) of the DIS Statutes) cannot be proposed by the DIS as arbitrators in DIS arbitration proceedings, nor be nominated by the DIS Appointing Committee as arbitrators, nor act as co-arbitrators or external party representatives. By proposal and with the consent of all the parties, they are permitted to act as sole arbitrators. By proposal and with the consent of all the parties and the co-arbitrators, they are permitted to act as presiding arbitrators. Law firms in which members of the Presiding Committee (section 7 (2) of the DIS Statutes) are active are permitted to act in the capacity as external party representatives in DIS arbitration proceedings without the involvement of the member of the Presiding Committee concerned if appropriate organisational steps are taken within the law firm to ensure that the member of the Presiding Committee concerned has no access to any documents or information about the DIS arbitration proceedings in question.
(3) Members of the Board of Directors who are not members of the Presiding Committee (section 7 (2) of the DIS Statutes), members of the Advisory Board and members of the Arbitration Council of the DIS cannot be proposed by the DIS as arbitrators in DIS arbitration proceedings nor be nominated by the DIS Appointing Committee as arbitrators in DIS arbitration proceedings. In all other cases, they are permitted to act, without limitation, as arbitrators and party representatives in DIS arbitration proceedings.
(4) Members of the Appointing Committee are not permitted to act as arbitrators in DIS arbitration proceedings. They are permitted to act as party representatives in DIS arbitration proceedings.
(5) Persons who act in DIS arbitration proceedings under these rules are barred from engaging in any activities and receiving any information provided by the DIS in relation to these DIS arbitration proceedings in their respective function as a member of the Board of Directors, Advisory Board, Appointing Committee or Arbitration Council. The same applies to members of the Presiding Committee (section 7 (2) of the DIS Statutes) in the case referred to in no. 2 sentence 3 above.
(6) These Integrity Principles apply accordingly to the administration of arbitration proceedings conducted under other rules and of other alternative dispute resolution proceedings by the DIS.