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Europe BITs

Many, if not most, European governments have bilateral investment treaties (BITs) with other countries. A number of them have online databases where the public can access individual treaties or learn more about the objectives and status of their BIT negotiation programmes.

last update: May 2012

EU-China BIT: schedules annex (Mar 2021)
12-Mar-2021 European Commission
EU-China BIT partial text (Jan 2021)
22-Jan-2021 European Commission
Energy Charter Treaty: EU text proposal for the modernisation (May 2020)
27-May-2020 European Commission
Agreement for the termination of bilateral investment treaties between the Member States of the European Union (EU draft, Nov 2019)
8-Jan-2020 IAReporter
As leaked by IAReporter
Belgium and Luxembourg model BIT text (2019)
29-Apr-2019 Chambre des Représentants de Belgique
Netherlands model investment agreement (Oct 2018)
31-Oct-2018 Government of the Netherlands
As released by the Government of the Netherlands
Energy Charter Treaty: Draft model investment dispute prevention and management protocol
5-Sep-2018
Drafted by the Energy Charter Secretariat
Netherlands draft model BIT (May 2018)
17-May-2018 Dutch Government
As released by the Dutch Government
Iran-Slovakia BIT (2016)
8-Aug-2016 Slovak Republic
India-Belgium/Luxembourg Bilateral Investment Treaty (1997)
20-Jul-2010
BIT between India and Belgium and Luxembourg PDF of English version