Investment treaties count among the most widely used instruments that seek to foster international investment. The investment treaty system is both expanding – with major new treaties and many ongoing negotiations – and contracting – with some governments terminating treaties that they see as outdated.

The 2017 conference on investment treaties provided greater clarity on how to evaluate outcomes of investment treaties. In particular, debates focused on:

• Evaluating societal benefits and costs of investment treaties

• Updating investment treaties through joint government interpretations

• Enhancing investment treaty outcomes and addressing concerns about globalisation

MEETING DOCUMENTS

Agenda

Key issues on international investment agreements

BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS

Joint Interpretative Instrument on the CETA between Canada and the EU and its Member States, 2016

Sanum Investments Ltd. v. The Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, [2016] SGCA 57 (Singapore Court of Appeal 29 Sept. 2016)

The legal framework applicable to joint interpretive agreements of investment treaties, 2016

Investment treaties over time: treaty practice and interpretation in a changing world, 2015

State-to-State dispute settlement and the interpretation of investment treaties, 2016

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VENUE

OECD Conference Centre

LINKS

OECD Freedom of Investment Roundtable

Freedom of Investment Roundtable summary reports

OECD work on international investment law

Global Forum on International Investment

2016 conference on investment treaties

2015 conference on investment treaties