Eighth Inter-sessional Meeting
24 to 25 October 2024
The 8th intersessional meeting of UNCITRAL Working Group III will be held at the Shangri-La Hotel in Chengdu, China on 24 and 25 October 2024. The intersessional meeting will focus on key issues concerning an appellate mechanism and a multilateral instrument on ISDS Reform. At the meeting, panels will engage in in-depth informal discussions aimed at advancing the current reform process and understanding the possible implications of these reforms.
Conference guide and programme
Key documents:
A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.239 - Possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS): Draft statute of a standing mechanism for the resolution of international investment disputes
A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.240 - Possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS): Annotations to the draft statute of a standing mechanism for the resolution of international investment disputes
A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.241 - Possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS): Submission from the Government of Switzerland
A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.246 - Possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS): Draft multilateral instrument on ISDS reform
Reference documents:
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.9/1130 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its forty-fourth session (Vienna, 23-27 January 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.9/1092 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its forty-second session (New York, 14-18 February 2022)
A/CN.9/1004/Add.1 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its resumed thirty-eighth session
A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.242 - Summary of the inter-sessional meeting on investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) reform submitted by the Government of Belgium
A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.233 - Summary of the inter-sessional meeting on investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) reform submitted by the Government of Singapore
A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.224 - Possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS): Appellate mechanism
A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.213 - Standing multilateral mechanism: Selection and appointment of ISDS tribunal members and related matters
Cost and financing of a permanent multilateral body (unofficial document, English only)
A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.202 - Appellate mechanism and enforcement issues
A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.185 - Appellate and multilateral court mechanisms
ICSID’s Background Papers on Annulment
Compliance with and Enforcement of ICSID Awards