On 15 June 1999, an arbitral award was issued in arbitration proceedings between an engineering company and a trading company administered by the Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania. On 30 October 2002, the Chairman of the 91st Commercial Circuit of the Cairo Court of Appeal granted enforcement of the arbitral award at the request of the trading company. the engineering company challenged the Chairman's order before the 91st Commercial Circuit of the Cairo Court of Appeal. The Court rejected the challenge and confirmed the order granting enforcement to the arbitral award of 15 June 1999. It began by determining the rules applicable to the request for enforcement of a foreign arbitral award which had not been subjected by the Parties to the Egyptian Arbitration Law.