The article is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of the problems of determining the arbitrability of disputes submitted for consideration and resolution to international commercial arbitration in terms of the presence or absence of a foreign element in such disputes. The theoretical foundations of the concept of a foreign element, arbitrability, criteria for determining the competence of international commercial arbitration regarding the resolution of a dispute are analyzed in detail. Also,

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... e article, through the prism of the provisions of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, substantiates the need to improve article 1 of the Law of Ukraine «On International Commercial Arbitration». Based on theoretical and regulatory sources, court practice, the author concludes that it is necessary to supplement the provisions of the Law with norms on the possibility of transferring international commercial disputes to which individual entrepreneurs, states are parties, as well as disputes in which the place of fulfillment of a significant part of the obligations and the place with which the dispute is most closely related located in a country other than the place where the parties engaged in commercial activities. The author also points out that the mechanism for determining the presence of a foreign element in assessing international commercial disputes in accordance with the provisions of the current legislation does not fully comply with international standards enshrined in UN acts. Now the provisions of the Law of Ukraine «On International Commercial Arbitration» require additions both in terms of the subject composition (individual entrepreneurs, foreign states), and by other criteria, including the place of fulfillment of a significant part of the obligations and the place with which the dispute is most closely connected. Direct work is currently underway to improve the relevant provisions, in the near future they will be submitted to parliament for consideration and adoption.