10 - Case Studies on Dispute Resolution in SDOs

Summary

This chapter offers three case studies on recent disagreements in the bodies and committees of three SDOs, where procedural guarantees were at stake. These disagreements arose at three different “levels”: standards development, policy-making, and appeal procedures. The discussed disagreements were either resolved through the internal dispute resolution bodies of these SDOs, or escalated to litigation. In particular, this chapter attempts to reveal what can be learned from the experiences of stakeholders involved in these disagreements and concludes that, despite the different nature of these disputes, they arose from the (potential) exclusion of the relevant stakeholders from particular institutional processes.