Title:
Dutch bilateral investment treaties : a gateway to 'treaty shopping' for investment protection by multinational companies
Authors:
Os, R. van
,
Knottnerus, R.
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
SOMO
Year:
2011
PAGE:
49
ISBN:
978-90-71284-84-7
Language:
eng
Subject:
Economic Development and Trade
Keywords:
development policy
,
finance
,
sustainable development
Abstract:
This SOMO report highlights the until now unexplored role Dutch investment protection policy plays in establishment decisions of multinational companies. The report argues that current Dutch investment policies are used for treaty shopping, allowing for investor–state dispute settlement based on broad-based bilateral investment treaties definitions that pose a danger to policy space and the safeguarding of public goods and interests. Treaty shopping is not only highly problematic from a sustainable development perspective for southern countries, but increasingly for northern states as well.
Organization:
SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
Country:
Netherlands
Region:
Western Europe
Category:
Research
Right:
© 2011 SOMO. This document is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivateWorks 2.5 License.
Document type:
Report
File:
343802.pdf