{"id":9658,"date":"2024-07-02T22:47:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T20:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/?p=9658"},"modified":"2025-01-30T14:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:51:03","slug":"swiss-federal-tribunal-upholds-intra-eu-ect-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2024\/07\/02\/swiss-federal-tribunal-upholds-intra-eu-ect-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Federal Tribunal upholds intra-EU ECT award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As opposed to the approaches taken by various <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips117'>EU<\/span> member states\u2019 courts (see, e.g., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2023\/09\/30\/the-german-courts-offer-protection-from-intra-eu-arbitrations\/\">here<\/a>), the Swiss Federal Tribunal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bger.ch\/ext\/eurospider\/live\/fr\/php\/aza\/http\/index.php?highlight_docid=aza:\/\/03-04-2024-4A_244-2023&amp;lang=fr&amp;zoom=&amp;type=show_document\">upheld<\/a> an intra-EU investment award based on the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips67'>ECT<\/span>. The highest Swiss court did not consider that EU law arguments necessarily trump arguments based on other treaties, and in the case at hand found that the arbitration agreement based on the ECT prevails over the arguments based on EU law. The court therefore upheld the award.<!--more--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips32','International Institute for Sustainable Development<!--more-->'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips33','Institut international du d\u00e9veloppement durable'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips34','Instituto Internacional para el Desarrollo Sostenible'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips60','Investment Treaty News'); <\/script><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('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips117','European Union'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As opposed to the approaches taken by various <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips117'>EU<\/span> member states\u2019 courts (see, e.g., here), the Swiss Federal Tribunal upheld an intra-EU investment award based on the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips67'>ECT<\/span>. The highest [&hellip;]<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips67','Energy Charter Treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips106','asociaci\u00f3n p\u00fablica-privada'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips117','European Union'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":15869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9658","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\/9658","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/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=9658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}