Energy Dispute Resolution: Investment protection, Transit and the Energy Charter Treaty

Thursday 22 October 2009 09:00 to
Friday 23 October 2009 17:00

Location

Hotel le Plaza, Boulevard Adolphe Max, 118-126, Brussels

Participants

Welcome and opening remarks

André Mernier (Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat)
Ulf Franke (Secretary General, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce)
Jason Fry (Secretary General, International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce)
Meg Kinnear (Secretary General, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes )
Christiaan Kroener (Secretary General, Permanent Court of Arbitration)

Session 1

Session Chair: Norah Gallagher (Director, Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law)

Plama v Bulgaria
Virginie Colaiuta (Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP)
Jonathan Hamilton (White & Case LLP)

Ioannis Kardassopoulos v Georgia
David Herlihy (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP)
Claudia Salomon (DLA Piper)

Amto v Ukraine
Kaj Hobér (Mannheimer Swartling)
Sergey Voitovich/Dmitry Grischenko (Grischenko & Partners)

HEP v Slovenia
Stephen Jagusch (Allen & Overy)

Azpetrol International Holdings B.V. v Azerbaijan
Stephen Jagusch (Allen & Overy)

AES v Hungary
Stephen Jagusch (Allen & Overy)
Jean Kalicki (Arnold & Porter LLP)

Mohammad Ammar Al-Bahloul v Tajikistan
Adnan Amkhan (International Investment and Commercial Arbitration Practitioner)

After-dinner speaker: Dr Randy Gossen (President, World Petroleum Council)

Friday 23 October

Session 2

BITs, the ECT and the EU: is conflict inevitable?

Session Chair: Christer Söderlund (Advokatfirman Vinge KB)

Markus Burgstaller (Lovells)
Richard Happ (Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH)
Esa Paasivirta (European Commission)
Robert Volterra (Latham & Watkins LLP)

Session 3

Session Chair: James Crawford (Matrix Chambers)
Yas Banifatemi (Shearman & Sterling LLP)
Alexandre de Gramont (Crowell & Moring)
Laurent Gouiffes (Lovells LLP)
Michael Polkinghorne (White & Case LLP)

Session 4

Session chair: Prof. Jonathan Stern (Director of Gas Research, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)

Adnan Amkhan (International Investment and Commercial Arbitration Practitioner)
Peter Cameron (Professor of International Energy Law and Policy, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee)
Kaj Hóber
Invited speaker from Gazprom
Invited speaker from Naftogaz

Closing remarks

Norah Gallagher (Director, Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law)
Daniel M. Price (Sidley Austin LLP)
Graham Coop (General Counsel, Energy Charter Secretariat)

In today's energy-dependent world, securing energy investments is a challenge for producer, consumer and transit countries alike. The dramatic breakdown in gas deliveries from Russia to Europe in early 2009 demonstrates the importance of secure transit mechanisms for grid-bound energy investments.

The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), signed in 1994 and with 53 members, is the only multilateral treaty which covers both investment protection and transit dispute resolution issues.

Following two highly successful conferences in Stockholm in June 2005 and in Washington in May 2007, the Energy Charter Secretariat is pleased to announce this conference, which is organised in conjunction with the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, the International Chamber of Commerce and the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

Please click here for a copy of the flyer.

This one-and-a-half day conference will take place from 2pm on 22 October until 6pm on 23 October 2009.

Please click here to register your interest and to receive a copy of the full programme and registration form when available.