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Ref. Ares(2016)5527890 - 23/09/2016
Ref. Ares(2017)1963547 - 13/04/2017
To:
DEMARTY Jean-Luc (TRADE); WEYAND Sabine (TRADE); PETRICCIONE
Mauro Raffaele (TRADE); REDONNET Denis (TRADE); SCHLEGELMILCH
Rupert (TRADE); [*]
(TRADE);
(TRADE);
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(TRADE);
(TRADE);
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(TRADE);
(TRADE);
a (TRADE);
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(TRADE);
(TRADE);
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(TRADE); [*]
(TRADE);
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(TRADE); [*]
(TRADE); [*]
(TRADE); [*]
(TRADE); [*]
(TRADE); EICHHORN Nele (CAB-MALMSTROM);
(TRADE);
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(EEAS-GENEVA); [*]
(EEAS-GENEVA)
@eeas.europa.eu)
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Subject:
Report - Meeting with Turkey on the multilateral investment court
(MIC) 22 Sept 2016
F2 (
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) met with Turkish officials from Ankara (Head of Investment policy
Dept) and their Brussels Delegation. TR had requested the meeting as a follow-up to the
non-paper the Commissioner had handed to the TR trade minister in the G20 in July.
They had posed a number of questions on the non-paper.
COM explained the parallel ongoing processes, first within the EU (Impact assessment,
initial reactions of Member states) and then externally. We noted the intention to hold a
discussion at the OECD (TR will be present) and then to seek to organise an expert
meeting in Geneva in December. We also mentioned CM's intention to organise a mini-
ministerial on this, but without being specific on when.
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Discussion on substance consisted of COM outlining its initial thinking but emphasising
that this has to be a bottom-up project and that EU would not seek to impose a particular
approach.
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COM gave an overview of interest noted up to now.
TR then asked some questions about Singapore Opinion,
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