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Intra-EU investor-State ICSID arbitration: the German Federal Court of Justice’s new inadmissibility ruling
8-Aug-2023 Lexology
On 27 July 2023, the German Federal Court of Justice (German FCJ) declared three intra-EU investor-State ICSID arbitrations inadmissible under German arbitration law given their incompatibility with EU law.
New ISDS case map launched (sticky note)
16-Sep-2021
New ISDS case map launched
6-Sep-2021
The map is an interactive tool that brings together 60 significant ISDS cases globally to support social movements, researchers, journalists and policy makers to analyse the impact of the ISDS mechanism.
Investment protection in the EU-UK trade and cooperation agreement
11-Jan-2021 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
The EU-UK agreement contains limited protections for investors and no investor-state enforcement mechanism. Its dispute resolution mechanism is limited to a “WTO-like” state-to-state arbitration.
Stop ISDS! Rights for people, rules for corporations
30-Jan-2019
EU-Vietnam trade and investment agreements (Aug 2018)
28-Oct-2018 European Commission
As published by the European Commission
NZ ’could not’ apply water tax - diplomat
30-Nov-2017 Radio NZ
Government plans to put a royalty on exports of bottled water could be in jeopardy after a top trade negotiator warned MPs it would breach trade deals.
Unpacking trade and investment
2-Mar-2017 Rosa Luxembourg
Series of 11 fact booklets about global trade policies.
Council legal service takes stance on provisional application of CETA
14-Sep-2016 Vieuws
As the member states are struggling to agree which parts of CETA should enter into force provisionally, the Council legal service suggests sizeable ‘carve-outs’ in the area of investment protection and financial services.
Green NGOs welcome the parliamentary resolution on the free trade agreements
15-Jun-2016 Friends of the Earth Hungary
Environmentalists urge the government to turn to the European Court of Justice on the issue of the planned Investment Court System.
Investment protection in ASEAN – part 1: the ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement
31-Mar-2016 ASEAN Briefing
The ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement (ACIA) was adopted in 2009 to establish an investment environment based on international best practices.