Citaat | Gerechtshof Den Haag 18 februari 2020

Onder 5.1.7 Gerechtshof Den Haag 18 februari 2020

Een alinea uit Gerechtshof Den Haag 18 februari 2020, ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2020:234.

416. To adopt the argument of Spain would amount to denial of benefits whenever an investor, legal entity incorporated under the applicable law of a Contracting Party in accordance with Article 1(7)(a)(ii), was controlled by citizens or nationals of the State receiving the investment. However, the drafters of the ECT did not intend to include this hypothesis in the denial of benefits clause of Article 17, which relates to the situation of a legal entity controlled by shareholders of a third country (a third country being a country not party to the ECT). Regardless of whether a denial of benefits under Article 17 is a matter of merits or jurisdiction – question that the Tribunal does not have to assess in this award – is an illustration of the fact that the drafters of the ECT did not want to exclude from the scope of its application the investors as legal entities controlled by nationals of the Contracting State receiving the investment.”

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