What is the ICC deadline to cure an unpaid filing fee?

The Secretariat fixes the cure period. Article 5(4) supplies no universal number of days. Pay the filing fee with the Request. If payment is missing, read the actual Secretariat direction before identifying the cure date.

Responsible actor. The claimant.

The Secretariat issues an actual payment direction after the filing fee has not been paid.

Pay the filing fee with the Request. If payment is missing, read the actual Secretariat direction before identifying the cure date.

The filing fee cure is separate from the respondent’s Answer period.

The claimant has filed a Request without paying the fee. Article 5(4) gives the Secretariat discretion to fix a cure period. The payment direction, rather than the filing date alone, establishes that period.

1. Pay the filing fee with the Request. If payment is missing, read the actual Secretariat direction before identifying the cure date.
2. Locate and retain payment confirmation and the secretariat’s actual cure direction.
3. Check any later operative variation before relying on an earlier direction.
4. Failure to pay by the fixed cure date closes the file, without preventing the same claims being submitted in a later Request.

Article 5(4) makes payment due with the Request and permits the Secretariat to fix a later cure period. Read that actual direction before counting any cure days. The filing date alone gives no numerical cure allowance.

Payment evidence and the cure direction determine what must reach ICC. If that direction fixes a day period, establish the country of deemed communication for Article 4. A calendar-date direction or bank transfer condition needs its own wording checked.

The Secretariat fixes the cure period. Article 5(4) supplies no universal number of days. Pay the filing fee with the Request. If payment is missing, read the actual Secretariat direction before identifying the cure date. The filing fee cure is separate from the respondent’s Answer period.

A Request arrives without the filing fee, but no cure direction is in the file. The claimant has filed a Request without paying the fee. Article 5(4) gives the Secretariat discretion to fix a cure period. The payment direction, rather than the filing date alone, establishes that period. No cure endpoint is established. Obtain the Secretariat’s actual direction; the fee was due with the Request.

A payment direction identifies a holiday endpoint in the recipient’s country. The claimant has filed a Request without paying the fee. Article 5(4) gives the Secretariat discretion to fix a cure period. The payment direction, rather than the filing date alone, establishes that period. Preserve the direction and determine whether it fixes a calendar date or a period subject to Article 4. Do not substitute the seat’s holidays.

The claimant pays after the directed period and the file has closed. The claimant has filed a Request without paying the fee. Article 5(4) gives the Secretariat discretion to fix a cure period. The payment direction, rather than the filing date alone, establishes that period. Review actual closure and payment records. Article 5(4) permits a later Request but does not automatically revive this closed file.

Actual operative procedure

Pay the filing fee with the Request. If payment is missing, read the actual Secretariat direction before identifying the cure date.

Separate procedural clock

The filing fee cure is separate from the respondent’s Answer period.

• The claimant has filed a Request without paying the fee. Article 5(4) gives the Secretariat discretion to fix a cure period. The payment direction, rather than the filing date alone, establishes that period.
• The filing fee cure is separate from the respondent’s Answer period.

• Payment confirmation and the Secretariat’s actual cure direction
• The filing fee cure is separate from the respondent’s Answer period.
• The governing ICC edition and actual procedural branch
• Any operative extension, modification or replacement direction
• Failure to pay by the fixed cure date closes the file, without preventing the same claims being submitted in a later Request. Preserve payment confirmation and the secretariat’s actual cure direction. Verify the actual required act and communication evidence. An unverified assumed period cannot support a date or paid record.