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Uruguay found liable in treaty dispute with airline company investor
Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 5-Dec-2024
The dispute concerned Uruguay’s national airline Pluna, where the Claimant, a Panamanian company – Latin American Regional Aviation Holdings S. de S.R.L. acquired in 2007 a 75% stake through its subsidiary Leadgate.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , services , Uruguay
The Energy Charter Treaty remains the most dangerous investment treaty to the energy transition
E3G | 4-Dec-2024
Our ranking reveals that the Energy Charter Treaty remains the most dangerous investment treaty to the energy transition by protecting over 300 megatonnes (Mt) of greenhouse gas emissions.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , 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
Energy Charter Treaty modernisation adopted, still undermines climate action
Friends of the Earth Europe | 3-Dec-2024
Even after modernisation, the ECT continues to undermine European and global climate policies.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , EU , 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
Panama agrees $26m payment to settle dispute with US miner
Mining.com | 28-Nov-2024
Panama has agreed to pay $26 million to settle a dispute with Dominion Mineral Corp. after losing an arbitration award in 2020 over the US mining company’s copper-gold exploration licences.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Panama , US
La revisión del TLC con la Unión Europea, un asunto pendiente
Más Colombia | 26-Nov-2024
El presidente Petro habló de la revisión del TLC con la Unión Europea, pero sobre un tema que no está en el tratado y después de años de haber anunciado la renegociación.
keywords: Colombia , EU , ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Colombia to renegotiate arbitration issues of FTAs with the US and UE
Prensa Latina | 25-Nov-2024
Colombia’s President said that Colombia will try to renegotiate the Free Trade Agreements with the European Union and the United States, concerning arbitration prerogatives based on national law.
keywords: Colombia , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US
Affaire de la BFT : une issue moins douloureuse qu'on le craignait pour la Tunisie
Kapitalis | 25-Nov-2024
L’affaire qui oppose, depuis le milieu des années 1980, ABCI, le fonds d’investissement néerlandais, à l’Etat tunisien a finalement connu une issue moins douloureuse pour les contribuables tunisiens que beaucoup d’observateurs le craignaient.
keywords: finance | banking | taxes , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Tunisia
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