The European Commission is preparing the paperwork to allow the EU to sign off on an agreement in principle on a renegotiated Energy Charter Treaty next month. Among these documents is an internal understanding among member states that investor-state arbitration based on the ECT among EU countries is no longer …
Energy Charter Treaty
Energy Charter Treaty deal announced
Energy Charter Treaty diplomats have closed in on difficult negotiations to ‘modernise’ a treaty that originally aimed at promoting trade and protecting energy investments on the Eurasian landmass after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Energy Charter Treaty negotiations enter decisive final stage
The latest round of Energy Charter Treaty modernisation negotiations ended on Tuesday (14 June), after an extension from three days of talks held last week. There is no final agreement yet in sight on some of the most sensitive files.
ECT negotiations : members eye June deal announcement
Observers of the ongoing Energy Charter Treaty modernisation negotiations tend to concur: the process is dominated by the European Union and its desire to have an overhauled treaty by mid 2022. After twelve rounds of negotiations among the more than fifty members of the ECT, the contours of a potential …
Energy Charter Treaty: EU seeks investor protection carve-out for fossil fuels
European Commission vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis was called to speak in today’s plenary session in parliament to update MEPs on the state of play in ongoing talks to ‘modernise’ the Energy Charter Treaty.
EU, Energy Charter secretariat report progress in ECT modernisation process
The European Commission is seeking to convince sceptics on both sides of the debate on the future of the Energy Charter Treaty that negotiations to ‘modernise’ the body of rules that underpin it are making progress. And it seems that the negotiation process launched in 2020 is indeed gradually moving …
EU, Japan to boost joint digital, climate, WTO and supply chain resilience work
The European Union and Japan held a bilateral summit on Thursday (27 May 2021), which ostensibly aimed to give new impetus to an already rich and diverse economic and political relationship.
Comment: Quo Vadis Energy Charter Treaty?
The Energy Charter Treaty needs to make a success of its ongoing modernisation process in the coming five years, writes Urban Rusnák.
Week in Brussels: Vaccines, China, CAI, Taiwan, Energy Charter Treaty
As widely anticipated, the European Union extended on Thursday its export authorisation scheme for COVID-19 vaccines produced by firms with a procurement contract from the EU until the end of June 2021. The move comes amidst controversies over who among the continental EU and the ‘Anglos’ are greater vaccine nationalists. …
Week in Brussels: EU wants fossil fuels out of ECT, anti-coercion, 4 new TDI cases, UK data adequacy
It’s been an eventful week, dominated by the new EU trade strategy or Trade Policy Review. Below, other important developments…
