Chapter III: Recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards made abroad or in international arbitration matters

Arbitration awards shall be recognised or enforced in France if their existence is established by the person relying on them and if such recognition or enforcement is not manifestly contrary to international public policy.

The existence of an arbitral award is established by the production of the original accompanied by the arbitration agreement or copies of these documents meeting the conditions required for their authenticity.

The arbitral award may only be enforced by virtue of an exequatur order issued by the judicial court within whose jurisdiction it was made or by the Paris judicial court where it was made abroad. The procedure relating to the application for exequatur is not adversarial. The application shall be filed by the earliest party at the court registry together with the original of the award and a copy of…

The exequatur shall be affixed to the original or, if this is not produced, to the copy of the arbitral award meeting the conditions provided for in the last paragraph of Article 1516. Where the arbitral award is not drawn up in the French language, the exequatur is also affixed to the translation made under the conditions provided for in Article 1515. The order refusing to grant exequatur to the…