ICSID case ARB/13/33 (Decision on provisional measures)
ICSID · Investment (ICSID and treaty) · International (investor-state) · 14 July 2014
Why it matters
PNG Sustainable Development Program Ltd. v. Independent State of Papua New Guinea, an investment-treaty arbitration administered by ICSID (case no. ARB/13/33), 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
PNG Sustainable Development Program Ltd. v. Independent State of Papua New Guinea: an ICSID decision (ARB/13/33). In the outcome, the tribunal rendered its award. The tribunal's full reasoning is set out in the original.
The detail
Parties: PNG Sustainable Development Program Ltd. v. Independent State of Papua New Guinea
Case number: ICSID Case No. ARB/13/33
Outcome: Decision on provisional measures in case ARB/13/33. 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.
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