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Bilateral investment treaty and FTAs are two separate pacts; should continue to remain so: Sources
The Economic Times | 23-Dec-2024
Demands of certain developed countries from India to negotiate ’investment protection’ elements under an FTA is inappropriate as negotiating the matter as part of a separate chapter under the trade pact could have larger and detrimental implications.
keywords: India , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
The Commission decides to refer the United Kingdom to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failure to terminate its Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) with six EU Member States
European Commission | 18-Dec-2024
The European Commission decided to refer the United Kingdom to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to terminate the Bilateral Investment Treaties that it still has in force with Bulgaria, Czechia, Croatia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovenia.
keywords: EU , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , UK
Commission must stop Energy Charter Treaty hijacking EU climate policy
Euractiv | 18-Dec-2024
The Energy Charter Treaty allow fossil fuel investors to sue EU member states before international arbitral tribunals to challenge climate mitigation measures. This legal mechanism is increasingly weaponized by the industry.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , EU , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Sobre la denuncia del Ciadi
Asuntos Legales | 16-Dec-2024
A raíz de la condena en contra del Estado colombiano y a favor de Telefónica, proferida por un Tribunal Ciadi el pasado mes de noviembre, se ha planteado por el gobierno nacional la posibilidad de denunciar el Convenio de Washington de 1965, por medio del cual se creó el Centro Internacional para el Arreglo de Diferencias en materia de Inversión.
keywords: Colombia , ICSID , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
“Shocking and sad”: how corporations use investment agreements to block decarbonisation in the Global South
Land and Climate Review | 12-Dec-2024
Experts talk about investor-state dispute settlements, which allow fossil fuel companies to bring multi-billion dollar lawsuits against countries that pass green policies.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , environment , EU , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Civil society organisations push for transformative global investment rules
SOMO | 11-Dec-2024
The Entebbe Declaration calls for justice and sustainability in global investment governance.
keywords: actions | resistance , Africa , ECT , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
India-EU FTA: Investment chapter to include FDI liberalisation, exclude protection, arbitration
The Hindu BusinessLine | 4-Dec-2024
The proposed India-EU Free Trade Agreement is likely to focus on investment liberalisation, while keeping investment protection and arbitration out of the pact, to be negotiated separately in a bilateral investment treaty.
keywords: EU , India , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Venezuela ratifies new bilateral investment treaty with China
Herbert Smith Freehills | 29-Nov-2024
This treaty marks a significant step in Venezuela’s recent trend of executing BITs, particularly following its withdrawal from the ICSID Convention in 2012.
keywords: China , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Venezuela
A bilateral investment treaty with a ‘bit’ of change
The Hindu | 22-Nov-2024
Despite some departures, the India-UAE bilateral investment treaty establishes a continuity of India’s investment treaty practice.
keywords: India , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform , Oman
British Virgin Islands court grants Chinese firm right to seize Nigerian $25m assets
Business Day | 21-Nov-2024
The ruling marks the latest in a string of losses Nigeria has suffered in foreign jurisdictions over the past years.
keywords: China , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Nigeria