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

Draft convention on investments abroad (Abs-Shawcross draft convention)

20-Apr-2021 International Arbitration

One of the most significant early proposals for a multilateral agreement to protect private foreign investment was launched in 1957 by groups of European business people, and lawyers.

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)