{"id":3451,"date":"2015-08-04T17:03:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T22:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itn.mattrock.ca\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2024-08-09T18:26:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:26:21","slug":"bolivia-promulgates-conciliation-and-arbitration-law-with-regime-for-investor-state-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2015\/08\/04\/bolivia-promulgates-conciliation-and-arbitration-law-with-regime-for-investor-state-disputes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia promulgates Conciliation and Arbitration Law with regime for investor\u2013state disputes\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 25, 2015, Bolivian President Evo Morales promulgated Law No. 708 on Conciliation and Arbitration, approved by the Bolivian parliament with inputs from the private sector, academia and civil society. The law creates a Special Arbitration Regime for resolving investor\u2013state disputes, particularly concerning strategic natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>Bolivia\u2019s Attorney-General H\u00e9ctor Arce stated that the law guarantees the rights of both the state and domestic and foreign investors.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vicepresidencia.gob.bo\/El-gobierno-promulgo-la-Ley-708-de\">President Morales added<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cnow no business sector can complain that Bolivia offers no legal guarantees or security.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips63','Bilateral investment treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips67','Energy Charter Treaty'); <\/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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 25, 2015, Bolivian President Evo Morales promulgated Law No. 708 on Conciliation and Arbitration, creating a Special Arbitration Regime for resolving investor-state disputes.<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips63','Bilateral investment treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips100','investissement direct \u00e9tranger'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[2050,2085],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bolivia","tag-natural-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}