OECD Roundtables on Freedom of Investment

The Freedom of Investment process hosted by the OECD Investment Committee has since 2006 provided a forum for intergovernmental dialogue on how governments can reconcile the need to preserve and expand an open international investment environment with their duty to safeguard the essential security interests of their people.

 

Dialogue takes place in a series of roundtables involving the OECD countries, non-OECD adherents to the OECD Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises and other major non-OECD countries.

 

Roundtable summary reports 

15th Roundtable - 5 December 2011

14th Roundtable - 22 March 2011

13th Roundtable - 5 October 2010

  • Recent policy developments for Canada and South Korea
  • Country responses to Argentina’s position on payment of ICSID arbitral debt
  • Recent annulments of awards under ICSID
  • Green growth and international investment law

12th Roundtable - 26 March 2010 

11th Roundtable - 7 October 2009

10th Roundtable - 26 March 2009

9th Roundtable - 17 December 2008

  • Recent policy developments for France, Germany, Italy and New Zealand
  • Practical difficulties for foreign investors of multiple, host country approval processes
  • Competition policy perspectives on foreign government controlled investments

8th Roundtable - 8 October 2008

  • Recent policy developments for Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan and the United States
  • Accountability in security-related investment reviews
  • Foreign government controlled investments

7th Roundtable - 26 March 2008 [ French ]

  • Review of OECD investment acquis  
  • Progress report on the development of guidelines for recipient country investment policies relating to national security

6th Roundtable - 13 December 2007

  • Recent policy developments for France, Germany, Japan, Russia and the United States
  • Transparency and predictability in security-related investment reviews
  • Benefits of open markets for energy security
  • Consultation on Sovereign Wealth Funds

4th Roundtable - 30 March 2007

 

3rd Roundtable - 6 December 2006

 

1st Roundtable - 21 June 2006

 

Progress reports

 

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