Investment: Treaties

(asked on 19th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the Government has undertaken an investor state dispute settlement risk assessment of UK legislation relating to (a) health, (b) the environment, (c) waste management and (d) fisheries.


Answered by
Mark Garnier Portrait
Mark Garnier
This question was answered on 24th January 2017

The UK is signatory to over 90 bilateral investment treaties (BITs) containing investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions. The objective of BITs is to provide investors with fair and equitable treatment, protection against discriminatory action and a commitment not to expropriate investments without compensation. The contents of BITs do not generally provide specific obligations to either investors or states regarding health, the environment, waste management or fisheries.

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