Report of the Central Construction Work Dispute Committee Concerning the Resolution of Disputes (3rd Quarter, 2007)
January 15, 2008
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1. Resolution of Disputes by Resolution Procedure
| Mediation | Conciliation | Arbitration | Total | |||
| Transfers from the previous quarter | 3 | 28 | 33 | 64 | ||
| Applications in the current quarter | 2 | 11 | 1 | 14 | ||
| Cases completed in the current quarter | 3 | 10 | 7 | 20 | ||
| Breakdown | Mediation and Conciliation | 1) Successful mediation or conciliation | 3 | 3 | － | － |
| 2) Aborted/other | － | 6 | － | － | ||
| 3) Withdrawn | － | 1 | － | － | ||
| Arbitration | 4) Arbitration judgments (arbitration by settlement) | － | － | 7 (4) |
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| 5) Settlements within the set date | － | － | － | － | ||
| 6) Other | － | － | － | － | ||
| Transfers to the next quarter | 2 | 29 | 27 | 58 | ||
2. Breakdown of the number of requests
(1) Breakdown by type of concerned party and construction work type
| Concerned Parties | Construction Work Type | Total | |||||
| Applicant | Recipient | Building Construction | Public Works | Facility | Electrical | Other | |
| Individual Contracting Organization | Contractor | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Legal Contracting Organization | Contractor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Contractor | Individual Contracting Organization | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Contractor | Legal Contracting organization | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Subcontractor | Master Contractor | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Master Contractor | Subcontractor | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 14 | |
Note: The cells for "subcontractor/master contractor" and "master contractor/subcontractor" include the "second subcontractor/first subcontractor" and "first subcontractor/second subcontractor" types, respectively.
(2) Breakdown of dispute types
| Dispute type | Work defect | Work delay | Disputes concerning work costs | Contract cancellation | Disputes concerning subcontract money | Other | Other |
| Applications | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 14 |
