The changes in the Mediation Act published in the Bulgarian Official Gazette on 2 February 2023, which will come into force on 1 June 2024. The new Chapter 6 mediation in pending cases. You can read this article in Bulgarian via this link. With the publication of the changes in the Mediation Act, mediation in…
Since the implementation of the third transfer reform package in October 2021, and in line with the objective to modernise football’s regulatory framework, FIFA has incorporated possible recourse to mediation in disputes before the Football Tribunal. Highlights: • Voluntary and confidential services provided free of charge • Document developed in close exchange with experienced mediators…
As it has done every year for a long time now, the French section of GEMME and the International Council of Mediation (ICM) are organising a conference in Strasbourg, at the « Palais de l’Europe », on 25 and 26 May 2023, entitled « The International Conference on Mediation ». This event will also be an opportunity to celebrate…
On 21 January next, it will be 25 years since the adoption of the first Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on Family Mediation No. (98) 1 of 21 January 1998. Before that date, projects in the field of mediation were already being developed in some European countries. At present, there are…
Last Saturday in Vienna, the GEMME Board met with 23 people representing 14 national sections: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Ukraine. As a special guest at the meeting, Eric Heinke, Vice President of the Viennese Bar Association, addressed the assembly before the start of…
The European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) is organising a half-day webinar on mediation and conciliation on 22 November 2022, in partnership with GEMME and the Institut de Formation Judiciaire. This webinar will focus on mediation in general (history of mediation, mediation and conciliation, interest-based negotiation, mediation techniques, national experiences, …) and on mediation in specific…
Le CIMFA (International Centre for Mediation in the Armed Forces) participated in the International Mediation Week by organising a conference-debate on 11 October 2022 in Marseille on the health and budgetary issues of mediation applicable in the Armed Forces. Professionals from various fields shed light on the consequences of an unaddressed or unresolved interpersonal conflict.…
On 5-7 October 2022 a training for judges in mediation with elements of mindfulness took place at the Fabryka Wełny Hotel & Spa in Pabianice (near Warsaw) organised by: Polish ProMediation & ProWellness Foundation of Suwałki, the Polish section of the European Association of Judges for Mediation GEMME, and the San Francisco-based Weinstein International Foundation…
Representatives of the GEMME Board of Directors were in Warsaw last weekend to participate in a meeting with lawyers to promote mediation as a priority method of dispute resolution. Monika Włodarczyk, welcomed the attendees as president of the Polish section of GEMME. It was a meeting with lawyers, in which some judges of the Polish…
The first meeting of the new GEMME Bureau – which was elected in June during the General Assembly held in Barcelona – took place on 19 July with the aim of sharing new ideas and proposals and defining the lines of action for the coming months. These are the upcoming activities of GEMME that were…