{"id":16293,"date":"2025-04-30T14:40:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T12:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/?p=16293"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:06:03","slug":"first-icsid-award-against-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2025\/04\/30\/first-icsid-award-against-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"First ICSID award against Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strabag and its co-claimants, Erste and Zweite Nordsee-Offshore Holding, have filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com\/36\/279207\/045111302774.pdf\">petition<\/a> in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to enforce a <a href=\"https:\/\/pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com\/36\/279207\/045111302776.pdf\">\u20ac240 million <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips18'>ICSID<\/span> award<\/a> against Germany\u2014the first ICSID award ever issued against Germany and, notably, the first intra-<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips117'>EU<\/span> award under the Energy Charter Treaty (<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips67'>ECT<\/span>) against the state. The underlying dispute concerns Germany\u2019s regulatory overhaul of its offshore wind energy sector, which the tribunal found breached the investors\u2019 legitimate expectations and resulted in a creeping expropriation of their projects. The petition seeks recognition and enforcement of the award under the U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, following Germany\u2019s unsuccessful request to stay enforcement during ongoing ICSID rectification proceedings.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips18','International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips65','East African community'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips67','Energy Charter Treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips72','Investment Court System'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips117','European Union'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips118','Union europ\u00e9enne'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips119','Uni\u00f3n Europea'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strabag and its co-claimants, Erste and Zweite Nordsee-Offshore Holding, have filed a petition in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to enforce a \u20ac240 million <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips18'>ICSID<\/span> award against Germany\u2014the first ICSID award ever issued against Germany and, notably, the first intra-<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips117'>EU<\/span> award under the Energy Charter Treaty (<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips67'>ECT<\/span>) against the state.<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips18','International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips67','Energy Charter Treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips72','Investment Court System'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips117','European Union'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips118','Union europ\u00e9enne'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips119','Uni\u00f3n Europea'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":16294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}