The
Arbitration Commission of the Conference on Yugoslavia (commonly known as
Badinter Arbitration Committee) was a commission set up by the
Council of Ministers of the
European Economic Community on 27 August 1991 to provide the Conference on Yugoslavia with legal advice.
Robert Badinter was appointed to President of the five-member Commission consisting of presidents of
Constitutional Courts in the EEC. The Arbitration Commission has handed down fifteen
opinions on "major legal questions" raised by the conflict between several republics of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).