ISDS Case Map
Ireland
Lansdowne Oil & Gas PLC said the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes has registered the company's request for arbitration against Ireland, in a dispute over the Barryroe oil and gas field.
Ireland deposited with the Energy Charter Secretariat a written notification of its decision to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty.
Civil society groups are calling on the Government to leave the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and reject ISDS, as a new threat emerges over the government's refusal to grant an exploration licence to an oil and gas company.
Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Simon Harris called on Sunday for a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
Ireland is among EU member states that have been calling for the EU and Israel to hold an Association Council over human right concerns in Gaza.
Global paper producer Smurfit Westrock has been awarded a $469m arbitration ruling against Venezuela by the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, the company and the tribunal said.
Prime ministers Pedro Sánchez and Leo Varadkar have asked the European Commission to "undertake an urgent review" of the EU-Israel agreement in light of the war in Gaza and the worsening humanitarian crisis.
Ireland is in talks with other EU members who want a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement on the basis that Israel may be breaching the agreement's human rights clause.
The deal has been in negotiations for two decades, and supporters had hoped the agreement with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay could be concluded after new environmental protections were sought.
There is a coordinated move for EU members to withdraw from the dangerous Energy Charter Treaty but Ireland is refusing to act.
