ISDS Case Map
Romania
Bulgaria and Romania withdrew their objections to the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) after getting written assurances from Ottawa that Canada will remove visa requirements for Bulgarian and Romanian citizens from December 1 2017
Protests against the Rosia Montana mine project continued for more than 15 years and resulted in the largest demonstrations in Romania since the late 1980’s.
The Bulgarian government will not back the signing of a free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada until it receives irrevocable guarantees that all its citizens can travel to Canada without visas, it said on Wednesday. Romania is demanding the same.
Romania's government agrees to a complete lack of transparency in the Rosia Montana arbitration case
In disregard with official requests, Romania's government and Gabriel Resources decided to play out their dispute behind closed doors.
The President of Romania agreed to submit to the Romanian Parliament draft legislation approving termination of 22 bilateral investment treaties that Romania concluded with other EU Member States.
Gabriel Resources announces an update in relation to its ongoing bilateral investment treaty arbitration against Romania proceeding under the auspices of the World Bank’s ICSID.
Canada and Bulgaria have come to an agreement on a roadmap towards visa liberalisation, while the Romanian government indicated that there is a good chance of the same being granted to them in the near future as well.
The arbitration dispute concerns the treatment applied by the Romanian authorities to the investments performed by KMG and KMGI in their Romanian subsidiaries.
Meetings in various formats have been held between Canada, the European Commission, Bulgaria and Romania, in an effort to avoid a possible veto from Sofia and Bucharest on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
The next move toward ratifying Canada's trade deal with the European Union is set when Immigration Minister John McCallum is expected in Brussels to resolve Canada's long-standing visa dispute with Romania and Bulgaria.
