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Article 1. The Arbitration Center of Mexico

1. The Arbitration Center of Mexico (hereinafter referred to as the CAM) is a private institution whose function is to provide services for the administration of commercial arbitration in accordance with the following Rules.

2. The CAM exercises its functions through a General Council and the Secretary General, in accordance with the present Rules and the Internal Rules of the CAM contained in Appendix I.

Article 2. Definitions

In these Rules:

1. “Claimant”, shall designate the Claimant Party which may include one or more claimants;

2. “CAM”, shall designate the Arbitration Center of Mexico;

3. “Communications”, shall be those which are made in writing by the entities of the CAM or the Arbitral Tribunal;

4. “General Council”, shall designate the General Council of the CAM;

5. “Answer”, shall designate the Answer to the Request for Arbitration and its annexes, or the Answer to the Counterclaim;

6. “Request”, shall designate the Request for Arbitration and its annexes;

7. “Respondent”, shall designate the Respondent Party which may include one or more respondents;

8. “Award”, shall designate an interim, partial or final award, as the case may be ;

9. “Rules” or “CAM Rules”, shall refer to these Rules of Arbitration of the Arbitration Center of Mexico;

10. “Secretary General “, shall designate the Secretary General of the CAM;

11. “Arbitral Tribunal”, shall refer to the entity in charge of resolving the dispute submitted to arbitration proceedings, which can be composed of one or three persons.

Article 3. Written submissions

All written submissions of the parties are to be delivered directly or by any means of telecommunication, subject to their subsequent ratification by mail. The parties shall always supply the number of copies of their written submissions, as well as all documents annexed thereto, sufficient to provide one copy for each party, one for each arbitrator, and one for the Secretary General. A copy of any communication from the Arbitral Tribunal to the parties shall be sent to the Secretary General.

Article 4. Notifications

1. Unless otherwise provided for, all written communications shall be deemed to have been validly made if they are delivered personally or at the establishment, normal residence or postal address of the addressee; in the event that, after a reasonable research, the address of any such location has not been found, all written communications shall be deemed to have been validly made if delivered at the last known establishment, normal residence or postal address of the addressee, by certified mail or any other means that provides a record of the delivery thereof.

2. The communication shall be deemed to have been received on the day when such delivery was effected.

Article 5. Time Limits

Time limits fixed by the present Rules or the Secretary General shall start to run on the day following the date a notification, note, communication or proposal is deemed to have been received. When the last day of such time limit is an official holiday or a non business day in the place of residence or establishment of business of the addressee, such time limit shall be extended to the next business day. All other official holidays and non business days during the time limit shall be included in the calculation of the said period of time.

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