The UNCITRAL Working Group III (ISDS Reform) - Informal online meeting on 6-10 December 2021

Informal online meeting on 6-10 December 2021, 1 - 3 pm (CET)

The UNCITRAL Secretariat is organizing five two-hour informal meetings on 6 to 10 December on the following topics:

• Code of conduct Article 11 (Compliance with the code of conduct) and means of implementation (1 meeting organized jointly with ICSID) 

• Financing aspects of a multilateral permanent investment tribunal (1 meeting)

• Shareholders claims for reflective loss (1 meeting organized jointly with the OECD)

• Multilateral instrument on ISDS reform (2 meetings)

The purpose of the meetings is to consider informally draft documents prepared by the Secretariat on these topics, which will be available in due course on the website of UNCITRAL.

Programme

Summary of the Chair and Rapporteur - Informal online meetings - 6-10 December 2021

Background Materials

• Outline of the working paper - Cost and financing of a permanent multilateral body
• OECD paper for informal discussion - Shareholder Claims for Reflective Loss in Investment State Dispute Settlement: A “Component-by-Component” Approach to Reform Proposals
• A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.209 - Possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) – Draft Code of Conduct
• A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.208 - Investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) reform – Draft code of conduct: Means of implementation and enforcement
• A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.190 - Note by the Secretariat on dispute prevention and mitigation - Means of alternative dispute resolution
• A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.170 - Note by the Secretariat on shareholder claims and reflective loss
• A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.194 - Note by the Secretariat on multilateral instrument on ISDS reform
• A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.142 - Note by the Secretariat on possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS)
• A/CN.9/1044 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its thirty-ninth session (Vienna, 5–9 October 2020)
• A/CN.9/1004 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its thirty-eighth session (Vienna, 14–18 October 2019)
• A/CN.9/970 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its thirty-seventh session (New York, 1–5 April 2019)
• A/CN.9/964 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its thirty-sixth session (Vienna, 29 October–2 November 2018)
• A/CN.9/935 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its thirty-fifth session (New York, 23–27 April 2018)
• A/CN.9/930/Rev.1 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its thirty-fourth session (Vienna, 27 November– 1 December 2017) - Part I
• A/CN.9/930/Add.1/Rev.1 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its thirty-fourth session (Vienna, 27 November– 1 December 2017) - Part II
• Academic Forum on ISDS papers

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