Articles in English
Global Arbitration Review | 11-jul-2014
Corporate counsel and practitioners in Europe have formed a non-profit association to promote the benefits of investor-state arbitration and influence EU policy on investment protection.
ENDS Europe | 10-jul-2014
Asked about the trade deal the Commission is currently negotiating with the US, which campaigners fear will allow private companies to challenge the EU’s environmental rules, Mr Juncker stressed that the normal, publicly accountable, court system should be used instead of private courts or arbitration panels.
CEO | 3-jul-2014
The EU Commission’s plan to enshrine sweeping rights for foreign investors in the EU-US trade deal continues to draw heavy criticism. In response, industry lobby groups, law firms, and arbitrators have launched a tooth and nail defence of the business power grab. See through their propaganda with Corporate Europe Observatory’s guide to investment arbitration.
Sydney Morning Herald | 3-jul-2014
The Permanent Court of Arbitration has ordered that Australia will be allowed to challenge Philip Morris Asia’s right to contest Australia’s plain packaging laws, on the grounds that the company only bought shares in its Australian arm so that it could launch the case.
Dow Jones Newswires | 3-jul-2014
Newmont Mining Corp. said Tuesday it is filing for international arbitration against the Indonesian government for a mineral-export ban.
ETUC | 1ro-jul-2014
Bernadette Ségol the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation says trade unionists are “particularly concerned at statements from DG Trade implying that the consultation is about a reform of the ISDS system and is not open to a decisive rejection.”
Palabras clave:
acciones | resistencia ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS ,
trabajo | derechos laborales ,
TTIP
No to ISDS | 17-jun-2014
Web tool to participate — until 6 July 2014 — in the EU consultation on investor-state dispute in TTIP and say NO to ISDS!
Palabras clave:
acciones | resistencia ,
conocimiento tradicional ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS
BBC | 12-jun-2014
Should foreign businesses have the right to take a sovereign state to arbitration to seek compensation for a change in the law or government policy? And if so, in exactly what circumstances?
Palabras clave:
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS ,
TTIP
FFII | 28-may-2014
ISDS gives the US an unfair advantage — we can not expect EU companies to win ISDS cases against the US.
Palabras clave:
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS ,
TTIP
Reuters | 23-may-2014
This week, for the first time, the Ecuadorean government disclosed the results of water and soil testing conducted in 2013 by its experts — the US environmental, engineering and infrastructure consultant Louis Berger Group — at five sites once operated by Chevron predecessor Texaco.
Palabras clave:
Ecuador ,
energía ,
Estados Unidos ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS ,
medio ambiente
