Commission Official Defends EU Investment Court Appeals Mechanism

摘要

A European Commission official Tuesday (June 14) defended the European Union's proposal that the current investor-state dispute settlement mechanism be changed to include an appeals mechanism and set up a permanent roster of panelists and arbitrators. The proposed appeals process is set up to allow a "fairly limited" review of the facts in a given case and the permanent roster would prevent future conflicts of interest, said Colin Brown, the deputy head of the Dispute Settlement and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy unit in the commission's trade department.