The latest
Politico | 30-Sep-2016
The European Commission today ramped up infringement procedures against Austria, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia and Sweden to push them toward scraping their bilateral investment treaties with other EU nations.
ICSID | 30-Sep-2016
The hearing on jurisdiction, merits and quantum in Vattenfall AB and others v. Federal Republic of Germany is scheduled to take place before a three-member arbitral tribunal from Monday, October 10, 2016 through Friday, October 21, 2016.
Friends of the Earth Canada | 30-Sep-2016
Some of Canada’s largest environmental, labor and civil society organizations have now joined the growing international community demanding that Chevron clean up its toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Inf’OGM | 30-Sep-2016
S’il est adopté, le Ceta aboutira à une consolidation des droits de propriété industrielle dont le Certificat d’obtention végétale et le brevet qui concernent directement les semences.
keywords:
biodiversity | biopiracy ,
Canada ,
EU ,
France ,
GMOs ,
intellectual property ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
regulation
Ecelaw | 29-Sep-2016
Federal Court of Canada rejects Bilcon’s application to stay proceedings, denying the Delaware company an early pay day.
The Globe and Mail | 29-Sep-2016
The latest salvo in a marathon multibillion-dollar legal battle between global energy giant Chevron Corp. and a group of Ecuadorean residents over environmental damage has begun in a Toronto court.
I-ARB Africa | 29-Sep-2016
This surge in the ratification of “Intra-African” BITs is part of the Moroccan “South-South Partnership” strategy
keywords:
BITs (texts of) ,
Burkina Faso ,
Guinea-Bissau ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Morocco ,
Senegal
Lexicology | 28-Sep-2016
A discussion of some general distinctions between invesment treaty protections and political risk insurance.
keywords:
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Live Mint | 28-Sep-2016
On Canada’s insistance, India is expected to sign a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with Canada based on an old text, not its new model BIT. The old text contains contentious provisions such as the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism.
Global Labour Column | 28-Sep-2016
For decades, labour has been fighting purely defensive battles against the neo-liberal trade and investment agenda; we lack an agenda of our own. Lost ground will not be reclaimed on what is fundamentally hostile territory, argues Peter Rossmann of the IUF.
keywords:
actions | resistance ,
Canada ,
EU ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
labour | workers’ rights
