PCA Host Country Agreement with Argentina enters into force

On August 23, 2013, H.E. Héctor Horacio Salvador, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, accompanied by the Minister Luis Pablo María Beltramino, visited the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) to deliver a document confirming that all the internal legal and administrative requirements necessary for the entry into force of the Host Country Agreement (HCA) between the Government of the Argentine Republic and the PCA, signed on May 12, 2009, have been fulfilled. Therefore, pursuant to the provisions of its Article 15, the HCA shall enter into force on September 21, 2013.

(Mr. Brooks W. Daly, PCA Deputy Secretary-General, receiving the document from H.E. Héctor Horacio Salvador, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, accompanied by Minister Luis Pablo María Beltramino)

The PCA has adopted a policy of concluding “Host Country Agreements” with its Member States in order to make its dispute resolution services more widely accessible. Through such an agreement, the host country and the PCA establish a legal framework for the conduct of PCA-administered proceedings in the territory of the host country under conditions similar to those guaranteed by the PCA’s Headquarters Agreement with the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The PCA has also concluded HCAs with Chile, Costa Rica, India, Mauritius, Singapore and South Africa.

In recent years, the PCA caseload in Latin America has increased sizably, with over 10% of the cases currently administered by the PCA involving a Latin American State.