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Post-Achmea developments: Spain wants court to ask ECJ to rule on compatibility of Energy Charter Treaty with EU law; Achmea ruling also touted by Poland as reason for discontinued BIT case
Peru faces a new arbitration relating to highway project
In now-public Masdar award, tribunal says Achmea ruling has “no bearing” upon ECT dispute, finds that Spain reneged on specific commitments, but disagrees on appropriateness of discounted cash-flow method
$50 mil Bolivia award is upheld even though arbitrators used valuation method different from those of the parties; new decision casts doubt on power to annul provisional measures or arbitrator disqualification rulings
Newly-released documents in Ballantine v. Dominican Republic case reveal parties’ debates over treaty time-bar and dual-nationality provisions, alleged environmental justifications, and emergency site inspection order
Full details emerge of miner’s allegations of treaty breach; dispute follows domestic court rulings on investor duty to consult local communities
In new decision, emergency arbitrator in energy charter treaty dispute declines to revoke his award
Spain secures stay of enforcement of energy charter treaty award in Swedish court
Vietnam round-up: government emerges unscathed from another UNCITRAL BIT arbitration, with a million dollar costs order; but faces at least three other pending treaty claims
Looking Back: early ICSID awards against Congo-Brazzaville in AGIP and Benvenuti & Bonfant cases touched on stabilization clauses, flouting of provisional measures, and questions of quantum

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