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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Directorate-General for Trade
Directorate F - WTO, Legal Affairs and Trade in Goods
Dispute Settlement and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy
Brussels, 24 July 2017
F.2/
(2017) 2583032
Subject:
Meeting with Business Europe (2nd February 2017)
Meeting participants:
(BE);
(COM)
BE requested to meet the COM to discuss investment related matters, in particular the
latest developments on the multilateral investment court
[Out of scope]
[Out of scope]
. This meeting follows previous ones in November and
December 2016 where related issues were discussed.
First, on the ongoing public consultation on the multilateral reform of investment dispute
settlement including the establishment of a multilateral investment court,
BE expressed
some difficulties with the wording of the questionnaire. The
COM informed BE about
the stakeholder meeting of 27th February.
[Out of scope]
The
COM clarified that a single set of substantive rules is politically difficult at this
point in time but that it does not exclude that it can eventually be agreed and related to
the single dispute settlement rules, i.e. the multilateral investment court once it is in
place. The COM informed of latest developments regarding discussions with
third countries and with Member States. Asked by BE, the COM clarified that the
investment dispute settlement system under CETA is not to be taken as a model for the
multilateral investment court.
[Out of scope]
BE is organising a discussion with its members on investment related matters on 20th
February 2017 to which it invited the COM to be present. Follow-up in writing is
expected.
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