ISDS Case Map
ECT
Energy Charter Treaty
The Energy Charter Treaty protects companies that invest in fossil fuels. A growing number of countries are withdrawing from it, while Switzerland continues to thwart the energy transition.
After the withdrawal of eight EU member states, the European Commission has little prospect of reviving stalled talks to modernise the 1998 Energy Charter Treaty.
Arctic miner GreenX to pocket £740m in damages from Polish government.
The Dutch government will not have to pay damages to energy giants RWE and Uniper, a Dutch court in The Hague ruled.
The conference expects to meet ad hoc in April 2023 to finalise the discussion on the adoption of the amendments to the ECT.
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling on the European Commission to initiate the process toward a coordinated exit of the EU from the Energy Charter Treaty.
The European Commission will ask to remove the modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty from the agenda of an ECT summit on Tuesday 22 November after EU countries failed to reach a majority in favour of reforming the charter.
Berkeley Energia Ltd. sent a written notification of an investment dispute to the Spanish government following the rejection of its application to construct a uranium-concentrate plant as a radioactive facility at its Salamanca project in November 2021
Slovenia is no longer a party to the Energy Charter Treaty after the Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously endorsed the government’s proposal to withdraw.
Secret court set up under energy charter treaty accused of conflicts of interest, self-regulation issues and institutional bias.
