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ICSID case ARB/12/21 (Award)

ICSID · Investment (ICSID and treaty) · International (investor-state)

Why it matters

Fábrica de Vidrios Los Andes, C.A. and Owens-Illinois de Venezuela, C.A. v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, an investment-treaty arbitration administered by ICSID (case no. ARB/12/21), in which a foreign investor brought claims against a state under an investment treaty. In the outcome, the tribunal rendered its award. For a student, it is a worked example of investor-state dispute settlement: how an ICSID tribunal weighs a state's right to regulate against the treaty protections owed to foreign investors.

Summary

Fábrica de Vidrios Los Andes, C.A. and Owens-Illinois de Venezuela, C.A. v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: an ICSID award (ARB/12/21). In the outcome, the tribunal rendered its award. The tribunal's full reasoning is set out in the original.

The detail

Parties: Fábrica de Vidrios Los Andes, C.A. and Owens-Illinois de Venezuela, C.A. v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Case number: ICSID Case No. ARB/12/21

Outcome: Award in case ARB/12/21. See the original for the disposition and any quantum.

Applicable law: ICSID Convention and Arbitration Rules; the applicable investment treaty.

Issues in play: A foreign investor's treaty protections against a sovereign state's right to regulate.

Read the full decision at ICSID case database

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