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EU Commission tells Spain not to pay up in long-running renewable subsidies case
Reuters | 25-Mar-2025
The European Commission handed Spain a victory when it instructed the country not to pay any compensation in a case related to claims amounting to billions of euros on renewable energy subsidies cut more than a decade ago.
keywords: ECT , energy , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Spain
The completion of the modernisation of the ECT and the provisional application of the modernised ECT
Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 19-Jan-2025
The envisaged provisional application of the modernised ECT will allow a “coalition of willing” States to apply the modernised ECT as of 3 September 2025.
keywords: ECT , energy , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Landmark ‘Micula case’ heads to European Court of Justice: A clash of EU law and global arbitration
The Parliament Magazine | 15-Jan-2025
As the Micula Case heads to the ECJ, it presents a pivotal moment for the intersection of EU law and international arbitration.
keywords: agriculture | farmers | food , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Romania
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
“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
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
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