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ICSID CASES in which ROMANIA HAS BEEN INVOLVED

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  • BERINDE Mihai

    (Department of International Business, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania, Doctoral School of Economic Sciences, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania)

  • PETRICA Dana

    (Doctoral School of Economic Sciences, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania)

  • MESTER Liana

    (Department of International Business, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania)

Abstract

The present paper aims to make a short presentation of the relation between Romania and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes – ICSID, whit special focus on the damages that Romania was ordered to pay to the claimants, by the ICSID Tribunal. ICSID was founded by the World Bank as a special organism to protect the foreign investors and their properties in the host state. After the recognition of ICSID by the states, the foreign investment flow grew and the number of disputes starts growing as well. Romania ratified the ICSID Convention in 1975. If one party is in breach of the Bilateral Investment Treaty or some other legal provision stated in international law, it will have to pay damages to the other party. The first arbitration request filled against Romania at ICSID was registered in November 2001 by Noble Ventures and the last one registered until now is in August 2018 by Alverley Investments Limited and German Properties Ltd. Until now, there were 15 cases registered at ICSID, in which Romania is the respondent. Ten of them were concluded and five are still pending. Until now, the proportion is in Romania favour, only in 30% of the cases Romania was ordered to pay damages, in 70% of the cases the claims were dismissed or the proceedings discontinued. The 3 cases where Romania had to pay damages were about some commitments that Romania undertook when the investments were made and then did not succeed to keep the commitments. In one of the cases, Romania granted some incentives for disfavoured areas and insured the investors that will maintain those incentives for a period of 10 years, but revoked prematurely them. In other case Romania made an agreement for 49-years concession over a land but, again, prematurely revoked the agreement. And, in the last case were Romania was ordered to pay damages, Romania promised to restructure the debts of Socomet, but failed to do so. The present paper is briefly describing those cases in which Romania was the Respondent.

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  • BERINDE Mihai & PETRICA Dana & MESTER Liana, 2019. "ICSID CASES in which ROMANIA HAS BEEN INVOLVED," Annals of Faculty of Economics, University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics, vol. 1(1), pages 247-252, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ora:journl:v:1:y:2019:i:1:p:247-252
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    Keywords

    ICSID; damages; foreign direct investment; international disputes;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F51 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - International Conflicts; Negotiations; Sanctions
    • F37 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Finance Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
    • K22 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Business and Securities Law

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