ISDS Case Map
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European Union
Paris would like to “copy-paste” key passages from the EU-Canada free trade agreement, concluded this week, particularly those relating to the arbitration court that is such a controversial issue in Europe.
The new agreement will redefine the implementation of cooperation between Israel and the EU in a range of areas.
This is one of the problems with this regime of investor rights. It confers enormous discretion on an elite corps of lawyers.
The dairy industry has thanked the US government for its extensive work aimed at securing clarifications regarding the right to use several generic cheese names in exports to Honduras.
The EU’s request for an import duty reduction of 95 percent for all trade items is a particular obstacle because Indonesian industrial products cannot compete with European products.
For the first time, as a result of EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement commitments, European investors will be able to offer tenders for various public infrastructure projects in Vietnam.
Corporations can still sue governments over public policy decisions they don't like but the real lesson from the ISDS reforms, in fact, is that public opposition and political mobilization can change things.
Revision of the legal framework on intellectual property is recommended to ensure compliance with the EU – Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement.
America, where GMOs have been in the human supply chain for more than two decades, want their currently banned crops to be imported into Europe.
European Ombudsman concluded that the Commission’s refusal to carry out a human rights impact assessment constituted maladministration.
