Organisation: European Council

The European Parliament has voted in favour of a “coordinated withdrawal” of EU member states from the Energy Charter Treaty.

24 April 2024

The European Commission has proposed that the EU should invoke the Energy Charter Treaty’s denial of benefits clause to withdraw protections for Russian and Belarusian investors.

10 April 2024

France is the latest European country to announce it is pulling out of the Energy Charter Treaty because of environmental concerns, following similar moves by the Netherlands and Spain.

24 October 2022

UPDATED. With Brexit taking effect tonight, the panel of 25 arbitrators appointed to hear disputes arising from the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement has been published.

31 December 2020

As a new treaty marks the end of intra-EU BITs, Ashique Rahman and Sam Winter-Barker of Fietta LLP in London argue that a forthcoming ruling by the European Court of Justice may also limit the ability of EU member states to enter into contract-based arbitration with private parties.

13 May 2020

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism in the EU-Canada free trade agreement known as CETA – including provisions for an “investment court system” – is compatible with EU law.

30 April 2019

Details have emerged of an action brought by Slovenia against Croatia in the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to enforce an arbitral award resolving a land and sea border dispute between the two Balkan countries in light of an arbitrator’s conduct.

06 November 2018

The IBA Arbitration Committee has announced its latest slate of officers at the association’s annual meeting in Rome, with Julie Bédard of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Gaëtan Verhoosel of Three Crowns as co-chairs and Philippe Pinsolle of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan waiting in the wings as senior vice co-chair.

11 October 2018

UK-based arbitral institutions have insisted business is still strong as Britain delivered its formal notice of withdrawal from the European Union, triggering a two-year countdown to departure.

29 March 2017

Representatives of Canada and the EU have signed a long-awaited free trade agreement, including controversial provisions for a permanent two-tier tribunal to hear investor-state disputes in place of a traditional arbitration mechanism.

31 October 2016