ISDS Case Map
Czech Republic
The Czech-based company Petrolama Namur Oil Sands Exploration filed a notice of dispute against Canada on March 29 over the delay in completing the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
The lower house of the Czech Parliament ratified the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), a free-trade agreement between the EU and Canada.
Aircraftleasing Meier & Fischer has initiated international arbitration proceedings, asking compensation in the amount of USD 125.17m.
Czech utility CEZ has launched arbitration seeking hundreds of millions of euros from Bulgaria for failure to protect its energy investments
The Czech Foreign Ministry has been using the association agreement between the European Union and Georgia as an instrument of pressure exerted on the Georgian authorities in order to protect the investments of the Czech Energo-Pro firm, daily Lidove noviny (LN) writes Monday.
Bangladesh government has decided to ink a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Czech Republic to expand trade and commerce with the central European country, said Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Monday.
Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas (Civic Democrat, ODS) has warned his Canadian counterpart that the Czech Republic could create problems with a trade and economic agreement between the European Union and Canada unless Ottawa backs down over its visa requirement for Czechs visiting the country.
The Czech government is indicating it could delay the ratification of a Canada-EU free trade agreement, a deal that would be larger in scope than the North American Free Trade Agreement, if the Canadian government doesn't scrap a visa requirement it imposed on Czech citizens in 2009.
The Finance Ministry wants to cancel the bilateral investment agreement with the US, but that idea faces powerful opposition
Since Czech Position reported Feb. 15 that Prague is likely to withdraw from a bilateral Czech-US treaty on protection of investments, there have been some developments on the issue, with the Czech chargé d’affaires in Washington being summoned to the State Department. Czech diplomats now have some hope that the US is prepared to compromise — due to the lure of a $28 billion tender to expand Temelín.
