ITN Quarterly  |  January 13, 2024

ITN December 2023

Insights

  • How Investment Laws Can Become Powerful Tools for Sustainable FDI Governance. Read
  • Exploring Investment Treaties’ Role in Advancing Gender Equality. Read
  • Revisiting Tax Incentives as an Investment Promotion Tool. Read
  • Implementing the Reform Idea: Taking stock of states’ efforts to manage their investment treaties. Read
  • Unlocking Sustainable Development in Central Asian Bilateral Investment Treaties?. Read

News in brief

  • UN General Assembly Resolution on Tax Convention. Read
  • European Commission publishes model BIT clauses between EU member states and third countries. Read
  • UNCITRAL Working Group III continued its work in Vienna during its 46th session. Read
  • UNCTAD’s World Investment Forum. Read
  • British court upholds Nigeria’s challenge against controversial mega-award. Read
  • High-profile coal phase-out intra-EU arbitration discontinued. Read
  • EU respondent in one of the arbitrations brought by an oil-refining group. Read
  • Billionaire Clive Palmer files another arbitration against Australia. Read

Awards and decisions

  • Another tribunal to reject the Achmea-based jurisdictional objection. Adria Group B.V. and Adria Group Holding B.V. v. The Republic of Croatia, Decision on Intra-EU Jurisdictional Objection, ICSID Case No. ARB/20/6. By Josef Ostransky. Read
  • UNCITRAL tribunal finds Russia liable to pay USD 207.8 million for the unlawful expropriation of the assets of a Ukrainian electricity company. JSC DTEK Krymenergo v Russia, PCA Case No. 2018-41, Award, November 1, 2023. By Jan Bałdyga. Read