Organisation: CJEU
Young EFILA holds launch debate
The European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration has launched a "Young EFILA" network for practitioners aged under 40, kicking off its activities with a debate on whether the European Union remains an attractive investment destination in the wake of Achmea, Komstroy and PL Holdings.
21 June 2022
Lord Mance addresses GAR Live London
In a keynote speech at GAR Live London, Lord Mance gave an overview of problems affecting international arbitration in London, including how to deal with arbitrator conflicts of interest and confidentiality following the UK Supreme Court decision in Halliburton v Chubb; and "the outside world... making itself felt" through state-imposed sanctions.
17 May 2022
German constitutional court upholds provisional application of CETA
Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has rejected several challenges to the provisional application of a controversial free trade agreement between the EU and Canada.
16 March 2022
EU targets UK over Micula award
The European Commission has launched infringement proceedings against the UK over a decision by its Supreme Court allowing enforcement of a €178 million ICSID award against Romania.
10 February 2022
Another ICSID panel rejects Komstroy ruling
An ICSID tribunal that found Spain’s renewables energy reforms violated the Energy Charter Treaty has declined to revisit its findings in light of the European Court of Justice’s ruling in Komstroy, calling it “entirely irrelevant”.
09 February 2022
EU’s top court rules against Miculas in state aid saga
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the European Commission was competent to decide that Romania’s payment of a €178 million ICSID award in favour of the Micula brothers would violate state aid rules – also finding that Achmea is relevant to the case.
25 January 2022
GBS counsel to join Luxembourg firm
Paschalis Paschalidis, who is advising investors in EU court proceedings over the impact of Achmea, has left Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes in Paris to help Luxembourg-based firm Arendt & Medernach develop its international arbitration practice.
14 September 2021
ECJ says ECT doesn’t cover intra-EU disputes
The European Court of Justice has issued a landmark ruling that the investor-state arbitration clause in the Energy Charter Treaty does not cover intra-EU investment disputes.
02 September 2021
Advocate general urges CJEU to rule against Miculas
An adviser to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has sided with the European Commission in its battle to prevent Romania from paying a €178 million ICSID award in favour of the Micula brothers.
05 July 2021
Intra-EU award against Hungary upheld
Hungary has failed to annul a €73 million ICSID award in favour of French food voucher services company Sodexo Pass International based on the Achmea ruling.
25 May 2021