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CETA

The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was concluded in 2014 between the European Union and Canada. It entered into provisional application in September 2017.

The agreement covers most aspects of new generation trade deals, including intellectual property, public procurements, regulatory cooperation, services and elimination of tariffs.

It also includes an investment chapter with a revised investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism, dubbed investment court system. Many critics on both sides of the Atlantic say that this new system is largely window-dressing and does not address the core of the problem behind investor-state dispute measures which enable foreign corporations to sue states if they deem their profits or investment potentials affected by new laws or changes in policy.

(March 2020)

EU executive and Canada join forces to promote multilateral investment system to replace ISDS
Vieuws | 8-Nov-2016
The move follows the Commission’s pledge from last year to “start work, together with other countries, on setting up a permanent International Investment Court.”
Canada, EU, investor-state disputes | ISDS, reformed ISDS
Libre-échange: haro sur les tribunaux de l’ombre
L’actualité | 8-Nov-2016
Le règlement de différends qui opposent des États et des entreprises étrangères devrait se faire devant les tribunaux et non devant des arbitres qui officient derrière des portes closes, affirme le professeur de droit Gus Van Harten.
Canada, EU, investor-state disputes | ISDS, NAFTA, TPP
« Au cœur du CETA », épisode 1 : les tribunaux d’arbitrage menacent-ils la démocratie ?
Le Monde | 1-Nov-2016
Les tribunaux d’arbitrage associés au traité CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) sont devenus ces dernières années le symbole des mouvements de contestation du libre-échange.
Canada, EU, investor-state disputes | ISDS, reformed ISDS
Investment Court System in CETA to be judged by the ECJ
European Law Blog | 31-Oct-2016
The Belgian federal government will seek the opinion of the European Court of Justice on the compatibility of the Investment Court System (ICS) in CETA with the Treaties.
Canada, EU, investor-state disputes | ISDS
Las movilizaciones contra el CETA continúan a pesar del acuerdo belga
Tercera Información | 28-Oct-2016
La campaña No al TTIP, de la que forma parte Ecologistas en Acción, convoca nuevas movilizaciones los días 4 y 5 noviembre para impedir la firma del acuerdo comercial UE-Canadá (CETA).
Canada, EU, investor-state disputes | ISDS
Ceta: "La Commission a commis des erreurs remarquables"
La Libre | 27-Oct-2016
Et si, plus encore que politique, les obstacles qui encombrent la route à l’approbation de l’Accord économique et commercial global (Ceta) conclu entre l’Union européenne et le Canada étaient de nature juridique ?
Belgium, Canada, EU, investor-state disputes | ISDS
The EU-Canada Joint Interpretive Declaration on the CETA
SSRN | 22-Oct-2016
For eight reasons, Gus Van Harten argues that the Declaration does very little to alleviate key concerns arising from the CETA’s proposed special rights and privileges for foreign investors
Canada, EU, investor-state disputes | ISDS, reformed ISDS
Secret arbitration system affecting Romanian community
VOA | 20-Oct-2016
Protests against the Rosia Montana mine project continued for more than 15 years and resulted in the largest demonstrations in Romania since the late 1980’s.
Canada, EU, investor-state disputes | ISDS, mining, Romania, TTIP
Les juges étrangers de la globalisation
Le Temps | 18-Oct-2016
La fonction régalienne de l’Etat souverain se heurte à la règle internationale du commerce fondée sur le respect de la parole donnée. Et les organes d’arbitrage qui tranchent les litiges ne donnent pas toujours raison aux Etats.
Belgium, Canada, EU, investor-state disputes | ISDS
Legal statement on investment protection in TTIP and CETA
Stop TTIP | 17-Oct-2016
Over 100 law professors from across Europe have come together to send a clear message to EU decision makers demanding the investor protection mechanisms be excluded from TTIP and CETA.
actions | resistance, Canada, EU, investor-state disputes | ISDS, TTIP

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