Revista da EMERJ - V. 20 - N. 2 - Maio/Agosto - 2018

 R. EMERJ, Rio de Janeiro, v. 20, n. 2, p. 73 - 115, Maio/Agosto 2018  109 What kind of training program i required: How many hours and main topics taught ? There is no pre-specified amount of training hours or experience. The specific requirements differ depending on the field of law. Do you have a national organization of mediators ? We don’t have one national organisation of mediators, we ei- ther are sole practitioners or are in various private and semi-private associations and mediation centers. Soon there will be a new project launched by the Ministry of Justice which will create 16 Centres for Mediation and Arbitration all over Poland (Poland has 16 regions) and the Lewiatan Mediation Centre in Warsaw will be coordinator of this network. It used to participate in the pilot programme of the same kind which took place in the years 2014-2016. Slovakia Frantisek Who can mediate ? A mediator under the Act on Mediation (2004) is defined as any natural person, entered on the list of registered mediators, and which the parties to mediation agree shall assume the function of mediator. Mediators do not need to indicate their specialization when they apply for a registration. They may specialize in particular types of disputes but the list of registered mediators does not contain this information.