Work Area: State-to-state

East Timor has withdrawn two Permanent Court of Arbitration claims against Australia – including one involving allegations of espionage – as a conciliation aimed at resolving a maritime boundary dispute in the Timor Sea continues.

24 January 2017

East Timor is to terminate a treaty with Australia governing the exploitation of oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea, potentially paving the way for the settlement of a maritime boundary dispute that has spawned espionage allegations and multiple proceedings in The Hague.

10 January 2017

Bulgaria’s national electricity company NEK has paid €602 million to a Russian state-owned entity to honour an ICC award, ending a politically sensitive dispute over a nuclear power plant that also gave rise to the threat of an investment treaty claim.

09 December 2016

An ICC tribunal has granted Turkish state pipeline company BOTAŞ a retroactive cut in the price of gas from Iran worth several billion dollars while ordering it to pay part of the Iranian side’s legal and arbitration costs.

22 November 2016

Russia’s former space agency Roscosmos and its partners have threatened to bring an investment treaty claim against France over the seizure of €300 million in funds that are the target of enforcement efforts by the former majority shareholders of Yukos.

24 October 2016

Ukraine’s national energy company Naftogaz and six of its subsidiaries have filed a US$2.6 billion investment treaty claim against Russia over the seizure of assets in Crimea following the Russian annexation of the peninsula in 2014 – making good on a threat reported by GAR in February.

20 October 2016

As East Timor and Australia express “optimism” at the prospects of resolving their maritime boundary dispute through conciliation, a separate fight between the two states over pipeline taxes is getting underway at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

19 October 2016

LINK ADDED. While Croatia is declining to play any further part in a boundary dispute with Slovenia that was thrown off course by an arbitrator's ex parte communications with one side, an employee of the country's Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs has shared his views of the recent partial award issued by a recomposed tribunal.

03 October 2016

A commission at the Permanent Court of Arbitration has ruled that it is competent to hear a compulsory conciliation proceeding launched by East Timor to resolve a maritime border dispute with Australia.

26 September 2016

Ukraine has instructed Covington & Burling for an arbitration against Russia over potentially oil-rich waters adjacent to Crimea – as another investment treaty claim looms relating to the annexation of that territory.

23 September 2016