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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

SCC to stop choosing EU-seated arbitration centres

iclg | 8-Nov-2024

Six years after Achmea, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce will now hear investment disputes outside the European Union.

keywords: EU , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS

After intra-EU BITs and the ECT, the EU needs to abandon extra-EU BITs—for legal, energy and climate policy, and political economy reasons

CCSI | 14-Oct-2024

EU members should terminate extra-EU BITs. To facilitate the process, the EU could spearhead an instrument similar to the plurilateral agreement to terminate intra-EU BITs or based on the draft treaty language on termination proposed to UNCITRAL.

keywords: climate , energy , EU , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS

EU notifies exit from Energy Charter Treaty and puts an end to intra-EU arbitration proceedings

European Commission | 2-Jul-2024

The EU has taken the final step to exit the Energy Charter Treaty; the Union and its Member States have also reached a formal agreement to put an end to the continuation of intra-EU arbitration proceedings under the ECT.

keywords: climate , ECT , energy , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS

Intra-EU awards are still valid and enforceable outside the EU

Lexology | 14-Jun-2024

Two recent decisions by the Swiss Federal Tribunal and the US Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia Circuit confirmed that international law does not offer arguments to contest either arbitral jurisdiction or the validity of arbitral awards in intra-EU investment cases.

keywords: ECT , EU , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS

The power of sunset clauses put to the test: Can intra-EU BITs be back from the dead?

DLA Piper | 7-Jun-2024

There appears to remain a growing demand from investors for the creation of a new European investor-State dispute settlement regime, which would provide a permanent neutral forum for the adjudication of their intra-EU claims.

keywords: corporate interests , EU , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS

Historic victory: Council gives green light for EU withdrawal from climate-wrecking Energy Charter Treaty

CAN Europe | 31-May-2024

The Council of the EU adopted a historic decision to withdraw the European Union from the Energy Charter Treaty, an international investment treaty from the 1990s increasingly used by the fossil fuel industry to sue governments over their climate and energy policies.

keywords: climate , ECT , energy , EU , from the movements , investor-state disputes | ISDS

Les Vingt-Sept approuvent le retrait du traité sur la Charte de l’énergie

Zone Bourse | 31-May-2024

Les vingt-sept pays membres de l’Union européenne ont approuvé le retrait de l’UE du traité sur la Charte de l’énergie, jugé contraire aux engagements communautaires pour la réduction des émissions de carbone et la "neutralité" climatique.

keywords: climate , energy , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS