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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, 26 October 2018 
Trade F2/
/6177457 
Limited1 
NOTE FOR THE ATTENTION OF THE OF THE TRADE POLICY COMMITTEE (SERVICES AND
INVESTMENT) 
SUBJECT: 
36th Session of UNCITRAL Working Group III - Investor-State Dispute 
Settlement Reform (Vienna, 29 October – 2 November 2018) 

ORIGIN: 
, DG TRADE F2, tel. 
@ec.europa.eu 
 DG TRADE F2 tel. 
@ec.europa.eu 
, DG TRADE F2, tel. 
@ec.europa.eu 
OBJECTIVE:  For information and action 
REMARKS:  
Delegations will find annexed to this note an argumentaire setting out the main 
advantages of establishing a permanent two-tier system as opposed to an appeal 
mechanism only, in view of the next meeting of UNCITRAL Working Group III 
(Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) that will take place on 29 October to 2 
November 2018 in Vienna.  
Member State delegates are informed that EU co-ordination meetings are scheduled 
every morning in room C0229 at the Vienna International Centre at 8.30 am. Information 
on these meetings has also been sent out via the Agora system. 
Member States which still have not done so are requested to inform the Commission of 
their delegates to UNCITRAL Working Group III and to provide their contact details, 
particularly mobile phone numbers on which their delegates could be contacted during 
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111 

the UNCITRAL meeting. Member States are invited to send these details (name, e-mail 
and mobile phone number) by e-mail to 
@ec.europa.eu. 
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•  Not to be distributed or published outside the EU institutions and Member States' public administrations
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