Commission Official Defends EU Investment Court Appeals Mechanism
A European Commission official Tuesday (June 14) defended the European Union's proposal that the current investor-state dispute settlement mechanism be changed to include an appeals mechanism and set up a permanent roster of panelists and arbitrators. The proposed appeals process is set up to allow a "fairly limited" review of the facts in a given case and the permanent roster would prevent future conflicts of interest, said Colin Brown, the deputy head of the Dispute Settlement and Legal Aspects of...