{"id":16773,"date":"2026-01-19T15:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/?p=16773"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:20:28","slug":"unidroit-icc-working-group-advances-instrument-for-international-investment-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2026\/01\/19\/unidroit-icc-working-group-advances-instrument-for-international-investment-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIDROIT-ICC Working Group Advances Instrument for International Investment Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNIDROIT and the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips71'>ICC<\/span> Institute of World Business Law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unidroit.org\/seventh-session-of-the-working-group-on-international-investment-contracts\/\">convened<\/a> the 7th session of their Working Group on International Investment Contracts from 27 to 29 October 2025 in Rome, continuing efforts to draft an instrument for investment contracts. The session focused on key issues including contract formation and validity, rights and obligations of investors and host states, applicable law, and stabilisation or renegotiation clauses, while integrating modern concerns such as sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and good\u2011governance standards. This work aims to provide a template for international investment contracts with the process expected to be completed by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips67','Energy Charter Treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips71','International Chamber of Commerce'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips85','Organisation internationale du travail'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips86','Organizaci\u00f3n Mundial del Trabajo'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips100','investissement direct \u00e9tranger'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips106','asociaci\u00f3n p\u00fablica-privada'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips114','Sistema de Tribunales de Inversiones'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/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>UNIDROIT and the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips71'>ICC<\/span> Institute of World Business Law convened the 7th session of their Working Group on International Investment Contracts from 27 to 29 October 2025 in Rome, continuing efforts to draft an instrument for investment contracts.<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips71','International Chamber of Commerce'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips85','Organisation internationale du travail'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips86','Organizaci\u00f3n Mundial del Trabajo'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips114','Sistema de Tribunales de Inversiones'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":16975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16773","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\/16773","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=16773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17317,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16773\/revisions\/17317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}