Simon WeberOn 19 October 2018, the European Commission concluded three agreements with Singapore that will govern the relations between the two markets.[1] In particular, the EU-Singapore Investment Protection Agreement EUSIPA, a mixed agreement that needs to be ratified not only by the European Parliament but also by each Member State, provides for substantive protection standards as well as a dispute resolution between investors and their host States. These agreements are part of a series of new generation FTAs that include provisions on investor State dispute resolution, which are currently discussed among governments, scholars and practitioners as part of the ISDR reform project. Apart from establishing the Investment Court System, the texts of the agreements include references to small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs) investing abroad. Said provisions attempt to improve the access to justice of SMEs and can also be found in the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement…
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