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  "legislation": "eudn/2019/1954",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2019/1954 of 18 November 2019 establishing the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, in the EPA Committee set up by the Interim Agreement with a view to an Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Central Africa Party, of the other part, in connection with the adoption of the rules of procedure for mediation, the rules of procedure for arbitration and the code of conduct for arbitrators",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Duties of arbitrators",
  "text": "1. Upon acceptance of his or her appointment, an arbitrator shall be available to take up his or her duties and shall perform those duties thoroughly and expeditiously throughout the course of the proceeding, and with fairness and diligence.\n2. An arbitrator shall consider only those issues raised in the proceeding and necessary for a ruling and shall not delegate this duty to any other person.\n3. An arbitrator shall take all necessary steps to ensure that his or her assistant and staff are aware of, and comply with, Articles 2, 3 and 6 of this code of conduct.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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