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A Response to the European Commission's December 2013 Document "Investment Provisions in the EU-Canada Free Trade Agreement (CETA)"

By Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder on March 6, 2014

On December 3, 2013, the European Commission issued a document concerning the investment provisions in the EU-Canada free trade agreement (CETA) explaining how the CETA protects the right to regulate.

In the present paper, IISD examines the assertions made by the European Commission against the actual text of the draft CETA Investment Chapter dated November 21, 2013 on the substantive provisions and the draft investor-state dispute settlement provisions as of February 4, 2014. In the end, we conclude that the actual draft legal texts in the public domain fail to meet a number of the European Commission's stated objectives.

Report details

Topic
Investment Law & Policy
Trade
Focus area
Economies
Publisher
IISD
Copyright
IISD, 2014