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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES EU-VIETNAM TRADE AND INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS
A Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
Key points The ministers responsible for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) of 11 countries have announced that the core elements of a Comprehensive …
The European Court of Justice renders its opinion on the EU-Singapore free trade agreement: investment chapter is not within EU's exclusive competence
On 16 May, 2017 the European Court of Justice (the Court) rendered its Opinion on the competence of the European Union to conclude the Free Trade …
Advocate General issues opinion that the EU does not have exclusive competence to conclude the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement
In an opinion issued on 21 December 2016, EU Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston QC has concluded that the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA) will …
Final Award published in the South China Sea arbitration
On 12 July 2016, the final Award in the arbitration between the Republic of the Philippines and The Peoples' Republic of China was issued by the Tribunal …
A step towards finalising the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: what does this mean for businesses?
As discussed in our blog post here, the TPP is a major free trade agreement between twelve countries in the Asia Pacific and the Americas that has been …
Singapore signs the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements: a step in the right direction for the Singapore International Commercial Court
In our previous article The New Frontier, we discussed the launch of the Singapore International Commercial Court ("SICC") and in particular we …
Repaving the Southeast Asian Silk Road: EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement negotiations concluded
In the wake of the recent agreement of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (EU-Canada CETA) and after just over a year of …
Developments in resolving cross-border disputes
With the increase of global commerce, it also becomes increasingly important to provide for effective and quick dispute resolution mechanisms across …
European Commission requests European Court of Justice Opinion on competence to enter into EU-Singapore FTA
On 30 October the European Commission issued a press release announcing its intention to seek an opinion from the European Court of Justice as to the …
Indonesia's Ratification of the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution
On 16 September 2014, the Indonesian parliament ratified the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution ("Haze Treaty"), making it the last country …
Churchill Mining v Indonesia: ICSID Tribunal takes cautious approach to request for provisional measure
On July 8, 2014, a tribunal composed of Professor Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler (President), Michael Hwang S.C., and Professor Albert Jan van den Berg (the …
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