The Consolat de Mar has signed a collaboration agreement with the Catalonia Economists Association to promote business mediation and other alternative dispute resolution mechanisms (ADR). This alliance establishes a joint framework to promote awareness, access to, and use of mediation in the business and commercial sphere, a key tool for managing conflicts in a more agile, efficient way that creates value for all parties involved. Both institutions will work together to promote activities and specialized training programmes, as well as to develop joint initiatives to strengthen the mediation ecosystem.
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ATEIA-OLTRA BARCELONA, represented by Emili Sanz and Josep M. Vicens, president and secretary-legal advisor, respectively, held an institutional meeting with the CONSOLAT DE MAR, represented by Emma Gumbert, First Consul, and Xavier Coronas, Secretary General of the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce and of the Consolat de Mar.
Both entities agreed on the importance of promoting initiatives that foster business competitiveness, legal certainty, and the positioning of Barcelona as a strategic hub for trade and for the development of agreements to address business disputes.
The meeting made it possible to exchange views on the current context of international transport and logistics, as well as to explore future lines of cooperation in areas such as arbitration and business mediation; raising awareness of dispute resolution mechanisms generates trust and stability in international commercial relations.
Further information → Press Article
Again this year, the Consolat de Mar renews its support for the CICAC’s project, compendium.cat, which promotes the use of the Catalan language in the legal field.
The platform gathers, among other resources, the mediation and arbitration clauses of the Consolat de Mar drafted in Catalan.
The main institutions of the country participate in this project. For more information, visit the page → Compendium.cat – Compendium.cat.
Spanish Province High Court of Barcelona has published the unified criteria regarding Adequate Dispute Resolution Mechanisms.
Please click the following link for more information Criteria ADR – Barcelona High Court 2025
On October 11th, the Barcelona International Boat Show hosted the session “The Consolat de Mar: The origin of Barcelona as a maritime and commercial key player” where the First Consul of the Consolat de Mar, Emma Gumbert, the Vice Consul and CEO of Lotrans, Jesús Lozano, and the Director of the Barcelona Nautical Capital Foundation, Laureà Fanega presented the history of the Consolat de Mar of Barcelona and conveyed the importance of this institution in the area of international mediation as well as the importance of establishing good transaction agreements that creates spaces of trust and make possible the continuation of business. Mr. Lozano, given his wide experience in the logistics’ sector remarked the importance of celerity on today’s business transactions and how mediation can be bring this key element on dispute resolutions today.
