Agricultural Company for the Commercialization and Packaging Copragri v. Adam International Company

At a glance

Parties

Agricultural Company for the Commercialization and Packaging Copragri v. Adam International Company

Case no.

Commercial Court of Appeal of Casablanca, No. 1585/8225/2019

Court

Commercial Court of Appeal of Casablanca (Morocco)

Underlying award(s)

GAFTA arbitration award (the text refers to award No. 125)

Treaty

New York Convention 1958; Moroccan Code of Civil Procedure, Articles 327-46 to 327-49

Sector

Agricultural commodities trade

Outcome

Judgment of 17 December 2019. The outcome cannot be read in the published text.

The dispute

This is a judgment of the Commercial Court of Appeal of Casablanca dated 17 December 2019. It concerns an arbitral award made under the rules of GAFTA (the Grain and Feed Trade Association) between Copragri, a Moroccan agricultural marketing and packaging company, and Adam International Company. The published text is a poor optical scan of the Arabic original, and most of it cannot be read. The legible parts show that the parties argued over whether the award should be recognised and enforced in Morocco. They relied on Articles 327-46, 327-47 and 327-49 of the Moroccan Code of Civil Procedure and on the New York Convention of 1958. The court's reasoning and its decision cannot be reliably read from the published document.

Key holdings

1. The judgment deals with the enforcement in Morocco of a GAFTA award. It discusses Article 327-49 of the Moroccan Code of Civil Procedure and the New York Convention of 1958. The text is too poorly scanned to state what the court held. pp. 5–21

Procedural history

1. 17 December 2019The Commercial Court of Appeal of Casablanca gives judgment in case No. 1585/8225/2019.

Keywords

• New York Convention
• recognition and enforcement
• GAFTA
• Morocco
• Casablanca
• Article 327-49 Code of Civil Procedure
• Article V(1)(b)
• Article V(1)(d)
• exequatur
• commodities trade
• agricultural products
• Copragri

Summary generated with AI from the published documents — refer to the award for the authoritative text.