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25-Apr-2019
S&P Global
EU plans to extend its internal energy market rules to Russia’s Nord Stream 2 natural gas link to Germany could breach the Energy Charter Treaty, which protects international investors, according to the Swiss-registered company building it.
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11-Apr-2019
SeeNews
EVN and Bulgaria reached an out-of-court settlement, under which part of the claims regarding the remuneration obligations for renewable energy were offset between a Bulgarian EVN subsidiary and the Bulgarian state-owned National Electricity Company.
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15-Mar-2019
TASS
A Berlin court has ordered former shareholders of Hally’s Parsons Green, linked to now defunct oil company Yukos, to compensate Russia its legal costs to the tune of 188,000 euros.
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15-Mar-2019
Renewables Now
The ICSID ruled against Spain in a case brought by NextEra Energy Inc regarding the US utility’s lost investments in two 49.9-MW concentrated solar power plants.
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14-Mar-2019
Kluwer Arbitration Blog
The ongoing Rockhopper case may become a benchmark for future cases on the horizon, following Italy’s decision to crack down on hydrocarbon explorations and extractions.
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7-Feb-2019
Total Croatia News
Arbitration proceedings which the Hungarian energy group MOL has launched against Croatia before the ICSID in Washington are still ongoing and a ruling is pending, and Croatia has contested the jurisdiction of the arbitration tribunal.
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29-Jan-2019
Kluwer Arbitration Blog
It would be a brave person who would gamble on the CJEU not extending its Achmea reasoning to the ECT. Perhaps the time for obituaries is not yet nigh, but the headstone is already being carved.
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18-Jan-2019
New Europe
22 of the 28 EU nations have committed to terminate their bilateral investment treaties and use their influence as home states and respondent-states to notify tribunals of the non-arbitrability of intra-EU bilateral investment treaties and Energy Charter Treaty claims.
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14-Dec-2018
Kluwer Arbitration Blog
Tribunals still grappling with the intra-EU question, especially those in ECT cases, are certain to pay great attention to the carefully crafted Vattenfall decision. Its reasoning may well serve as a blueprint for further decisions and awards in similar cases.
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16-Nov-2018
Globe Newswire
The net award for Athena Investments amounts to approx. EUR 11M.
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13-Nov-2018
Business Review
The Romanian government has won a trial at World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes against the Swiss-based energy trader Alpiq in a case related to Hidroelectrica insolvency procedure.
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12-Nov-2018
Romandie
Alpiq a été débouté dans une procédure arbitrale avec l’Etat roumain dans le litige qui l’opposait à la société énergétique publique roumaine Hidroelectrica.
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27-Oct-2018
Le Monde
The documents highlight for the first time the pressure placed on the French parliament by a foreign company’s threat to use the ISDS mechanism.
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5-Sep-2018
Le Monde
Les documents révélés permettent pour la première fois de mettre en évidence la pression exercée sur le législateur français par une entreprise étrangère à l’aide d’une menace d’arbitrage.
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5-Sep-2018
Reuters
A US arbitration court has rejected a German government petition that said the panel had no right to rule on a damages claim by Sweden’s Vattenfall. Berlin cited a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
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5-Sep-2018
IISD
The proposed instrument is of little benefit to states on either account and it is overly intrusive into government administrative processes.
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5-Sep-2018
Drafted by the Energy Charter Secretariat
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21-Aug-2018
Open Democracy
An obscure agreement – the Energy Charter Treaty – allows energy firms to sue countries who take action to stop climate breakdown.
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10-Aug-2018
IISD
An arbitration tribunal found that Spain’s electricity reforms breached its obligation to accord to the investor fair and equitable treatment under the Energy Charter Treaty
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10-Aug-2018
IISD
Un tribunal d’arbitrage a déterminé que les réformes du secteur de l’électricité menées par l’Espagne violaient l’obligation du pays d’accorder un traitement juste et équitable à l’investisseur au titre du Traité sur la Charte de l’énergie.
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