ISDS Case Map
investment | BITs
investment | bilateral investment treaties
The JIN includes the definition of investor and investment, exclusion of taxation measures, Fair and Equitable Treatment (FET), National Treatment (NT) and Most Favoured Nation (MFN) treatment, expropriation, essential security interests and settlement of disputes between an investor and a contracting party,
The European Union could drop investment from major free trade deals in an effort to ease ratification, Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen.
The EU and Japan seemed to have scrapped the classic BIT/investor protection architecture as a model.
If Rwanda clings to BIT approach, its scope should be limited. Alternatively, it can embark on a more attractive investment climate in lieu of BITs.
Talks deadlocked on investor dispute settlement.
According to the investment agreement, the mainland commits to providing the most favored treatment to Hong Kong. The agreement on Ecotech specially emphasizes mainland's support to Hong Kong in participating in the Belt and Road Initiative.
Brazil has never approved any BITs nor did it sign the ICSID Convention but it continued to receive significant amounts of foreign direct investment (FDI), consolidating its position as one of the world’s top recipients of FDI
The Energy Charter Secretariat is in expansion mode, wanting to gain access to energy resources in Africa and Asia for its current—mostly developed country—members, and extending a far-reaching (and outdated) investment protection system to investments in resource-rich countries.
A democratic decision to regulate a privatised essential service or to return it to public control could potentially trigger international investment arbitration if a country is bound by an international investment treaty.
International investment agreement (IIA) reform has made significant progress.
