International Arbitration and EU Law

Edited by José Rafael Mata Dona, Independent Practitioner, D.E.S. in European and International Law, and member of the Brussels and Caracas Bars and Nikos Lavranos, Guest Professor, Leiden University, the Netherlands and Vienna University, Austria and Secretary-General of the European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration (EFILA), founder of NL-Investmentconsulting, Of Counsel at Wöss & Partners

Contents:

Foreword by Charles N. Brower xix
Preface xxi

PART I THE PRE- AND THE POST-AWARD STAGE IN INTERNATIONAL
COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION VIS-À-VIS EU LAW AND THE EUROPEAN
ATTITUDE TOWARD ANTI-SUIT RELIEF

1. Interaction between international commercial arbitration and EU law before the
award is rendered 2
Piotr Wiliński
2. The impact of EU law on challenges, recognition and enforcement of international
commercial awards 17
Bo Ra Hoebeke and Juan Manuel Sánchez Pueyo
3. The relationship between anti-suit relief, EU law and the New York Convention 42
Sophie J. Lamb QC, Bryce Williams and Robert Price

PART II SELECTED AREAS OF INTERSECTION BETWEEN EU LAW AND
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION
4. Arbitration and the European Convention on Human Rights 73
Monica Feria-Tinta
5. The allocation of GDPR compliance in arbitration 92
Alexander Blumrosen
6. ‘Consumer protection’ in international arbitration and EU law 110
Niuscha Bassiri and Emily Hay
7. Damages in international commercial arbitration 132
Herfried Wöss and Adriana San Román Rivera
8. Arbitration in antitrust damages cases in the European Union 160
Patricia Živkovic´ and Toni Kalliokoski
9. Collective redress arbitration in the European Union 176
S.I. Strong
10. The law governing commercial agency agreements 195
Dodo Chochitaichvili
11. The potential impact of Directive 2014/24/EU on construction arbitration in Europe 229
Luis Capiel and Oliver Cojo

PART III INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT ARBITRATION
AND EU LAW
12. General aspects of investor-state dispute settlement 242
George A. Bermann
13. Investment arbitration under intra-EU BITs 291
Quentin Declève and Isabelle Van Damme
14. Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty: The relevance of EU law 320
Jeffrey Sullivan and David Ingle
15. Investment Chapter in CETA: Groundbreaking or much ado about nothing? 338
Dorieke Overduin
16. Procedural issues: Annulment, recognition and enforcement of investment treaty
awards (ICSID and non-ICSID) 360
Olivier van der Haegen and Maria-Clara Van den Bossche
17. Damages in investment treaty arbitration 391
Herfried Wöss and Adriana San Román Rivera
18. Essential elements of taxation – investment protection and dispute settlement 426
Stefano Castagna
19. The Multilateral Investment Court 449
Friedrich Rosenfeld
20. The impact of EU Law on International Commercial Mediation 469
Anne-Karin Grill and Emanuela Martin
Bibliography 495

Index 541