Investment Mediation and Dispute Prevention
Texts
- UNCITRAL Guidelines on Mediation for International Investment Disputes (2023) (Annex: UNCITRAL Model Provisions on Mediation for International Investment Disputes)
Texts for comments by States
Comments received (in order of submission)
- Thailand (English only)
- Saudi Arabia (Arabic only)
- Panama (English and Spanish only)
- Dominican Republic (Spanish only)
- Singapore (English only)
- Republic of Korea (English only)
- Argentina (Spanish only)
- Viet Nam (English only)
- USA (English only)
- Morocco (French only)
- Türkiye (English only)
- Algeria (French only)
- Brazil (English only)
Reports of the Commission and Working Group
- A/79/17 - Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Fifty-seventh session
- A/78/17 - Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Fifty-sixth session
- A/CN.9/1167 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its forty-eighth session (New York, 1-5 April 2024)
- A/CN.9/1161 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its forty-seventh session (Vienna, 22-26 January 2024)
- A/CN.9/1131 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its forty-fifth session (New York, 27–31 March 2023)
- A/CN.9/1124 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its forty-third session (Vienna, 5-16 September 2022)
- A/CN.9/964 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its thirty-sixth session
- A/CN.9/930/Rev.1 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its thirty-fourth session - 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 - Part II
- A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.210 - Summary of the inter-sessional meeting on investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) reform submitted by the People’s Republic of China
Notes by the secretariat (investment mediation)
- A/CN.9/1151 - Draft UNCITRAL guidelines on investment mediation
- A/CN.9/1150 - Draft provisions on mediation
- A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.227 - Possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS): Draft guidelines on investment mediation
- A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.226 - Possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS): Draft provisions on mediation
- A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.218 - Possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS): Draft guidelines on investment mediation
- A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.217 - Possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS): Draft provisions on mediation
- A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.190 - Possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) - Dispute prevention and mitigation - Means of alternative dispute resolution
Notes by the secretariat (dispute prevention and mitigation)
- A/CN.9/1185 - Possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) - Draft toolkit on prevention and mitigation of international investment disputes
- A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.235 - Possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS): Draft guidelines on prevention and mitigation of international investment disputes
- Revised version of A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.235 (unofficial document, English only)
- Comments and reference materials on international investment dispute prevention and mitigation
- Argentina (Spanish only)
- Brazil (English only)
- Jamaica (English only)
- Republic of Korea (English only)
- Viet Nam (English only)
- European Union and its Member States (English only)
- Enabling Foreign Direct Investment in the Renewable Energy Sector (English only)
- OHADAC Conflict Management Committee Rules (English only)
- CIL (English only)
- A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.228 - Possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS): Draft legislative guide on investment dispute prevention and mitigation
- Compilation of best practices on investment dispute prevention and mitigation (unofficial document, English only)
- A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.190 - Possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) - Dispute prevention and mitigation - Means of alternative dispute resolution
Initials Drafts
- Initial draft on mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
- Initial draft on mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) - Addendum 1
- Comments received:
- Armenia
- Colombia
- European Union and its Member States - Draft clauses on mediation
- European Union and its Member States - Draft guidelines on mediation
- Kingdom of Bahrain
- Panama
- Republic of Korea
- Singapore
- Viet Nam
- FICA
- SIMC
Additional resources
Informal meetings
- 7 July 2023 - Forum on Dispute Prevention in Investor-State Dispute Settlement
- 5 May 2022 - Forum for Further Preparatory Work on Investment Mediation
- 6-10 December 2021 – Informal online meeting
- 28-29 October 2021 – Fifth Inter-sessional Meeting
- 9 November 2020 – Virtual Pre-Inter-sessional Meeting on the Use of Mediation in ISDS
- 18 June 2020 – The Role of Mediation in ISDS