Conventions
Slovenia is a member of all major multilateral conventions in the field of international commercial arbitration. Pursuant to Article 8 of the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia, the ratified and published international treaties are applied directly.
THE NEW YORK CONVENTION
The New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards of 1958 (Official Gazette of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, MP, no. 11/81)
On the basis of reciprocity, the Republic of Slovenia applies the Convention only for the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards issued on the territory of another Convention Country.
THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION
The European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration of 1961 (Official Gazette of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, MP, no. 12/63)
THE WASHINGTON CONVENTION (ICSID CONVENTION)
The Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States of 1965 (Official Gazette of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, MP, no. 7/67)