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You are here: Home » News and Analysis » Intra-European Union Treaties & Claims Intra-European Union Treaties & Claims Recent articles   ICSID nixes effort by two blocs of investors in Hungary to unilaterally join their arbitral claims Dec 31, 2011   Arbitrators reject Greek investor’s claims that Romanian tax enforcements and food safety inspections breached investment treaty; Romania must bear $4 Million of its legal costs Dec 15, 2011   Arbitrators decline jurisdiction over Romania’s counter-claim against investor; Counter-claims popping up in other ICSID cases, particularly Ecuadorian oil disputes Dec 15, 2011   ANALYSIS: Novel human rights arguments are raised in Romania arbitration at ICSID; tribunal views BIT protections as more protective than European rights convention counterparts Dec 15, 2011   Swedish energy company reportedly planning new ICSID arbitration over German nuclear phase-out Nov 2, 2011   As new arbitral claim is brought against Kyrgyzstan, an ICSID award remains unpaid Sep 29, 2011   Efforts to set-aside intra-EU BIT award likely to be abandoned, as government claims victory in arbitration Sep 7, 2011   Renewable energy arbitration claims on horizon, but states take differing approaches to public disclosure Sep 7, 2011   France’s second largest pharmaceutical company quietly pursues arbitration against Republic of Poland Aug 19, 2011   Foreign investors withdraw request that arbitrators order government to reinstate certain incentives; as final award looms, arbitrators tell state officials to give two months notice before assets are seized in tax dispute Jul 7, 2011   Arbitrators to decline jurisdiction over $1 Billion arbitration claim by Dutch investor in Slovak health insurance sector May 17, 2011   Human Rights Court finds no damage suffered by foreign investors from shares freeze; parallel investment arbitration threatened against Czech Republic Mar 31, 2011   Czech Republic terminates investment treaties in such a way as to cast doubt on residual legal protection for existing investments Feb 1, 2011   Tribunal constituted in ad-hoc arbitration brought by Italian businessman against Lithuania citing flawed privatization tender process Feb 1, 2011   Bulgaria sued over cancelled waste contract Feb 1, 2011   AES seeks to annul losing verdict in energy dispute with Hungary Feb 1, 2011   German courts asked to overturn finding of jurisdiction by arbitral tribunal in intra-EU investment dispute Jan 13, 2011   Investors in mining project put Slovakia on notice of treaty claim; claimant hope to use treaty that was subject to narrow reading in prior arbitration Jan 13, 2011   Arbitrators uphold jurisdiction over investor claim against Slovakia; dispute over health insurance investments not derailed by Slovak accession to the European Union Nov 4, 2010   ANALYSIS: Tribunal rejects objections of European Commission and Slovak Republic in arbitration; Vienna Convention arguments examined in detail Nov 4, 2010   EC asks member-states to signal by year’s end whether they will terminate their intra-EU investment treaties; spectre of legal action looms Oct 20, 2010   European Commission and member-states will meet to discuss whether BITs are needed within European Union Sep 28, 2010   Hungary prevails in first of three Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) arbitrations over power pricing disputes; arbitrators affirm that “politics” is not a dirty word Sep 28, 2010   ANALYSIS: ECT’s stability clause does not immunize foreign investors from legal changes in Hungary; arbitrators see no clash between ECT and Hungary’s EU law obligations Sep 28, 2010   Ad-hoc arbitration tribunal is hearing German investor’s claims against Czech Republic following bankrupting of investment project Sep 28, 2010   Hungary prevails in Energy Charter Treaty arbitration Sep 24, 2010   Investor warns Poland of arbitration unless permit is green-lighted for resumed construction of Liebskind-designed tower in Warsaw Aug 28, 2010   Intra-EU BIT cannot be relied upon by EU national for purposes of suing another EU state, says European Commission to arbitral tribunal Aug 5, 2010   Turkey prevails in Uzan-related $19 Billion arbitration claim; Dutch national unable to prove legal ownership of disputed telecoms firm Jul 19, 2010   Arbitrators ask European Commission to weigh in on intra-EU BIT validity as states continue to plead that such treaties lapsed upon EU entry Jun 27, 2010   more articles >>

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