L'arrêt de la Grande Chambre de la CJUE du 6 mars 2018 dans l'affaire Achmea: la fin des TBI européens?

Abstract

(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(2), 993-1004 | European Forum Insight of 24 June 2018 | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. L'arbitrage d'investissement à l'épreuve de l'identité constitutionnelle de l'Union européenne. - III. La fin programmée de l'ISDS dans les traités conclus par les États membres de l'Union? | (Abstract) The Achmea case (Court of Justice, judgment of 6 March 2018, case C-284/16) gave the opportunity to the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice to settle a longstanding controversy: investment arbitration is contrary to the principle of the autonomy of the European Union legal order. The reach of the decision, which was delivered in the context of an intra-EU BIT, goes far beyond the issues of arbitration and treaties concluded between Member States. This Insight explores the basis of the legal reasoning of the decision of the Court - which contributes to the consolidation of the European constitutional identity - and considers its consequences for the future of investment treaties of the European Union and its Member States.

Keywords

• autonomy of the eu legal order
• eu's jurisdictional system
• jurisdictional monopoly of the cjeu
• investment treaty
• investor-state dispute settlement
• applicable law