ITN March 2023

Insights

  • International investment law and repressive state power: Rethinking a relationship. Read
  • “Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed”: The Code of Conduct and Reflections on the 44th Session of the UNCITRAL Working Group III. Read
  • Looking for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Investment in the WTO Draft Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement. Read

News in brief

  • AfCFTA Protocol on Investment finalized and adopted. Read
  • ECT withdrawals and EU discussions on inter se agreement. Read
  • Consultations on the Convention on the Right to Development. Read
  • WTO negotiations of the plurilateral agreement on investment facilitation reach a draft text. Read
  • EU signs MoUs on sustainable raw materials with three countries. Read
  • EU and India set up Trade and Technology Council. Read
  • EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive enters into force. Read
  • OECD concluded public consultations on targeted update of Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Read

Awards and decisions

  • ICSID tribunal finds that Italy committed an unlawful expropriation under ECT’s Art. 13(1). Rockhopper Italia S.p.A., Rockhopper Mediterranean Ltd, and Rockhopper Exploration Plc v. Italian Republic, ICSID Case No. ARB/17/14. By Dihu Wu. Read
  • ICSID Tribunal upholds jurisdiction over an intra-EU Dispute. Cavalum SGPS, S.A. v. Kingdom of Spain, ICSID Case No. ARB/15/34. By Terfè Gerotto. Read