Arbitration and investment protection

11. 2. 2019 · Articles and Interviews

Following the CJEU's Achmea ruling (C-284/16), EU member states signed a declaration on 15 January 2019 confirming that arbitration clauses in intra-EU bilateral investment treaties breach EU law and pledging to terminate…

1. 2. 2019 · Publications and newsletters

HAVEL & PARTNERS' February 2019 Litigation Flash covers the upcoming end of intra-EU investment arbitrations after the CJEU's Achmea ruling, under which EU states pledged to terminate bilateral investment treaties between them…

1. 6. 2018 · Articles and Interviews

Dušan Sedláček and Adam Forst examine the arbitration committee that associations may set up under Section 265 of the Czech Civil Code, whose decisions now count as directly enforceable arbitration awards for…

20. 3. 2018 · Publications and newsletters

The CJEU ruled in Achmea v Slovakia (C-284/16) that investor-state arbitration clauses in intra-EU bilateral investment treaties are incompatible with EU law, a judgment expected to affect nearly 200 intra-EU BITs still…

1. 3. 2018 · Publications and newsletters

The March 2018 issue of Litigation Flash newsletter summarises the CJEU's Achmea ruling (C-284/16), which held that investor-state arbitration clauses in intra-EU bilateral investment treaties are incompatible with EU law.