NAMIBIA Trends and Developments Contributed by: Tshuka Luvindao and Azaria Wallace, Dr. Weder, Kruger & Haikali Inc.
renaming the Commission the Petroleum Disputes Commission, and the legal, technical, and environ - mental qualifications of its members should be pre - scribed by statute. Conclusion Three forums, no co-ordination, and no enforcement backstop. That is the architecture Namibia is taking into its first production cycle. The Petroleum Tribunal debate has often framed the question as one of forum creation. It is not. Adding a fourth forum to three unco - ordinated ones makes the silo problem worse. Real reform runs through the existing forums, not around them: pre-arbitral evaluation, consolidated arbitra - tion with administrative-law carve-outs, enforcement reform tied to accession to the New York Convention, and a renamed and expanded Ancillary Rights Com - mission. The Amendment Bill is the legislative vehicle. Whether Parliament uses it to address the dispute architecture or merely to relocate the regulatory office will tell us what kind of upstream sector we are building. The choice is being made now.
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