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09-Apr-2008
OECD countries are committed to keeping their investment frontiers open to sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) as long as these funds invest for commercial, not political ends. That is the message in a letter from OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría to G7 Finance Ministers detailing a common OECD position on policies towards sovereign wealth funds.
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29-Aug-2007
The Investment Committee has adopted the key findings of the OECD report on "The interaction between investment and services chapters in selected Regional Trade Agreements" which addresses the implications of this interaction for levels of investment protection and liberalisation.
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31-Oct-2006
Given the very frequent occurrence of the umbrella clause in modern investment treaties, and the different language used in these treaties, this working paper aims to improve an understanding of the interpretations of this clause and thereby assist treaty negotiators and parties in taking informed decisions.
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10-Feb-2006
This working paper provides an overview of investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms. It deals with issues related to the quality of arbitral awards; examines issues related to multiple and parallel proceedings and explores the merits of consolidation of claims; and deals with challenges of jurisdictional nature.
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30-Aug-2005
The OECD Investment Committee has released a statement supporting additional transparency in international investment arbitration. It has also published a study which examines the current rules, steps taken to improve transparency and the perceived advantages as well as the challenges of additional transparency.
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11-Oct-2004
This study provides factual elements of information on jurisprudence, literature and state practice related to the fair and equitable treatment standard. It examines the origins of the standard and its use in international agreements and state practice, its relationship with the minimum standard of international customary law and the elements of its normative content as identified by arbitral tribunals.
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11-Oct-2004
This OECD study provides factual elements of information on jurisprudence, state practice and literature related to "Indirect Expropriation" and the "Right to Regulate". It presents the issues at stake and describes the basic concepts of the obligation to compensate for indirect expropriation, reviews whether and how legal instruments and other texts articulate the difference between indirect expropriation and the right of the governments to regulate without compensation and attempts to identify a number of criteria which emerge from jurisprudence and state practice for determining whether an indirect expropriation has occurred.
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05-Oct-2004
This study aims to enhance understanding of investment protection provisions in international investment agreements. It provides a factual survey of jurisprudence and related literature on MFN treaty clauses in investment agreements.
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19-May-2004
International, bilateral and regional agreements have proliferated in the last ten to twenty years and new ones are still being negotiated. This study seeks to increase the level of understanding of the relationships between international investment disciplines, drawing on an analysis of key international investment agreements, and OECD’s experience with the relationship between its own instruments and other relevant agreements.
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on 12-Dec-2005
This Symposium, organised jointly by ICSID, OECD and UNCTAD, enabled non-governmental actors to share their perspectives on emerging investment arbitration issues identified by governments and their international organisations; to explore and advance the agenda which developed and developing country parties to investment agreements have in common; and to consider ways for the three organisations and other interested institutions to best work together and respond to the needs of their members and the investment community.
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