European Commission, European Union, Investment protection, Investor-State arbitration, Model Clauses
European Commission Publishes Non-Paper of Model Clauses for Member States’ Bilateral Investment Agreements with Third Countries
In October 2023, the European Commission published a Non-Paper of Annotations to Model Clauses for Negotiation or Re-negotiation of Member States’ Bilateral Investment Treaties (“BITs”) with Third Countries (“Model Clauses”) (“Non-Paper”). Non-papers are informal documents usually put forward in closed negotiations with EU institutions. The views in this Non-Paper do not necessarily communicate an official…