This treaty improved the investment climate and encouraged investment.

Action must begin with investment or with an intraregional treaty that affords extraterritorial rights and protection for regional capital and labour.

Direct public investment in resource protection

A delegation noted that, under the UNCTAD least developed countries (LDC) programme, Benin had signed a bilateral treaty for investment promotion and protection.

Case involved the interpretation of a bilateral investment treaty.

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K. Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty.

(b) Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty

The upcoming start of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks offer a key opportunity to advance the cause of stronger investment protection.

According to another view, draft article 18 seemed contrary to the Commission's original intention of giving precedence to special treaty provisions, such as those contained in investment protection treaties, over the draft articles.

(c) Analyse the role of intellectual property protection in international investment and technology flows

These changes have increased the complexity of the international investment regime, and should broaden interest in developing a more effective investment protection framework.

Treaties like investment protection agreements may not be suspended, given that their purpose is the mutual protection of national of the parties ).

Such activities include the operation of the Antarctic Treaty System, the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, tourism and non governmental activities in the Treaty area, and inspections under the Treaty.

8. The Seventeenth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting discussed the question of implementation of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty.

But some vulnerable countries are still struggling to finance countercyclical investment and expanded social protection services.

The need for planning, even at a simple level, for sustainability and the protection of investment.

41. quot Protection of Foreign Investment in International Law quot , American Society of International Law (1985).

The two sides note favourably the June 1992 Treaty on the Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investment that has been signed by the heads of both States and that has been approved by the United States Senate.

In particular, many LDCs had recently established investment promotion agencies and were entering into bilateral, regional and interregional agreements for the protection and promotion of investment.

Taking into account the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, adopted by the Antarctic Treaty Parties at Madrid on 4 October 1991,

This is untrue. During the massive investment associated with the Kyoto treaty, the participating countries investment in R D as a percentage of GDP has declined , not increased.

Investment protection depended on a functioning international arbitration system that would be perceived as fair and equitable.

Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1456, No. 24631).

Environmental issues are being actively pursued, with emphasis on environmental protection compatible with mineral resource investment and development.

In addition, the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was adopted in 1991 in Madrid.

Mention was made of South East Asian treaty practice, which allowed host States to regulate appropriate forms of foreign investment.

App. 1993) (choosing to deny protection of the treaty through a reading of the treaty language itself rather than ruling on the effect of armed conflict on treaties).

Lectures on protection of private foreign investment (in English), The Hague Academy of International Law, Regional Programme, Beijing, 1987.

Commercial ties between the two countries have expanded substantially in recent years, with the signing of a bilateral investment treaty in 2004 and a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement in January 2007.

The cumulative total of all known cases brought under bilateral, regional (e.g. NAFTA) or plurilateral (e.g. Energy Charter Treaty) agreements that contain investment clauses, or international investment agreements (IIAs), is now 160.

Commending the prohibition on mineral resource activities contained in the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty,

Lectures on bilateral investment protection agreements (in English), International Law Seminar, United Nations Office at Geneva, June 1992. Main writings

It is therefore urgently necessary to negotiate a treaty that guarantees peace and environmental protection in the Arctic region.

A unified treaty body would require new methods of improving the protection of human rights at the national level.

It was also noted that the Treaty had been strengthened by the adoption of the Protocol on Environmental Protection.

Article 18 recognized that alternative, special regimes for the protection of foreign investors, as provided for in bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, took precedence over the general regime of diplomatic protection.

It was also at odds with the Commission's original intention with regard to draft article 18. Initially, the Commission had only intended, through that article, to give precedence to special treaty provisions, such as those contained in investment protection treaties, over the draft articles.

In addition, it has further strengthened cooperation with the Antarctic Treaty parties, through participating as an observer in the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings and the meetings of the Committee for Environmental Protection, and assisting the newly established Antarctic Treaty secretariat.

3 Relation between the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty and other international agreements of a global scope.

This Protocol, which forms an integral part of the Antarctic Treaty, establishes a comprehensive, legally binding regime for environmental protection.

The Preparatory Commission was entrusted with the task of implementing resolution II, which embodied the regime for the protection of pioneer investment.

The Secretariat promotes productive, infrastructural and capital investment projects in education and health, environmental protection, economic and social infrastructure and municipal development.

By voting for the fiscal treaty, we can guarantee that stability and support and thus guarantee continued confidence and investment in the Irish economy.