{"id":107,"date":"2022-01-18T13:21:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/energyenvironmental\/?p=107"},"modified":"2022-01-18T13:21:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:21:29","slug":"achmea-decision-fallout-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/energyenvironmental\/2022\/01\/18\/achmea-decision-fallout-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Achmea Decision Fallout in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the\u00a0<em>Achmea<\/em>\u00a0case the Court of Justice of the European Union (<strong>ECJ<\/strong>) held that Article 8 of the Netherlands \u2013 Slovakia bilateral investment treaty, which allowed for the resolution of disputes by way of arbitration, was incompatible with EU law. The rationale for the decision was that a tribunal may have to interpret or apply EU law and where a question of law arose, unlike a Member State court, that question of law could not be referred to the ECJ. In other words, intra-EU bilateral investment treaty arbitration provisions, as reasoned by the ECJ, deprived the EU courts of jurisdiction in respect of the interpretation of EU law.<\/p>\n<p>We raised the prospect that the ramifications from the decision were potentially far reaching and were not, it seemed, confined to the BIT between Netherlands and Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris attorneys <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/vijaykbange.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vijay Bange<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/matthewfriedlander.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Friedlander<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/london\/2022\/01\/17\/revenge-of-the-energy-charter-treaty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit the <em>Duane Morris London Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the\u00a0Achmea\u00a0case the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) held that Article 8 of the Netherlands \u2013 Slovakia bilateral investment treaty, which allowed for the resolution of disputes by way of arbitration, was incompatible with EU law. The rationale for the decision was that a tribunal may have to interpret or apply EU &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/energyenvironmental\/2022\/01\/18\/achmea-decision-fallout-in-the-uk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Achmea Decision Fallout in the UK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[73,69,70,72,68,7,10],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-achmea","tag-arbitration","tag-bilateral-investment-treaties","tag-construction","tag-matthew-friedlander","tag-uk","tag-vijay-bange"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/energyenvironmental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/energyenvironmental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/energyenvironmental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/energyenvironmental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/energyenvironmental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/energyenvironmental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/energyenvironmental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/energyenvironmental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/energyenvironmental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/energyenvironmental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}