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November 21, 2025

ReLex managing partner elected by consensus to Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee

The Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters elected by consensus attorney Rytis Satkauskas, nominated by the Environmental Coalition, as new member of the Compliance Committee. The Aarhus compliance mechanism is a non-judicial, consultative system established by the Aarhus Convention to review […]...

August 15, 2023

One more episode of quest for competence as investor seizes Spanish school in London

The clash between international legal order and the autonomy of the EU law makes Spanish government disregard its international obligations as English courts continue attaching government owned buildings. Instituto Vicente Cañada Blanch building on Portobello Road was provisionally arrested on 4 August 2023 following the ICSID arbitration decision in Antin case. The Lisbon Treaty granted […]...

February 09, 2023

Community protest is not a law. “Rockhopper” award pushes for balance between environment interests an investment protection

The EU announced yesterday plans for joint withdrawal form Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), ending the last dramatic efforts to reform it. ECT was blamed for threatening the autonomy of the EU law and distorting climate goals throug fossil fuel investments. This marks the beginning of the end of the saga of the single most invoked investment agreement that gave legal basis for […]...

December 21, 2022

Ban on intra EU bilateral investment arbitrations might still produce unforeseen complications

In the Achmea case, the Court found that investor-state arbitration clauses in intra-EU BITs are not compatible with the EU Treaties and therefore cannot be applied after the date on which the last of the parties to the intra-EU BIT became an EU Member State. Following this CJEU line of thought the Lithuanian Government decided […]...