On 18 January 2018, CRCICA Advisory Committee (AC) held its first 2018 quarterly meeting. The meeting was chaired by Counsellor Amin ELMAHDI and was attended from Egypt by Prof. Dr. Borham ATTALLAH, Judge. Dr. Borhan AMRALLAH, Dr. Karim HAFEZ, and Prof. Dr. Mohamed Salah ABDEL WAHAB.  Three other members participated by a multilateral conference call:  Prof. Nassib ZIADE (Bahrain), Me. Philippe LEBOULANGER (France), and Ms. Samaa HARIDI (USA).  Dr. Ismail Selim, CRCICA Director and Dr. Dalia Hussein, Deputy Director were also in attendance.  Among other agenda items, AC members discussed the possibility to decrease the amount of arbitrators’ fees in case of significant delay in rendering the awards pursuant to Article 45(12) of the CRCICA Rules and the AC Committee By-laws. The second 2018 meeting was scheduled for 29 March 2018.