The importance of the decision of the European Court of Justice in Achmea can hardly be overestimated. Only a few months after 6 March, its effects are already deeply affecting the arbitration community, with final awards being challenged before national courts and private investors withdrawing from impending arbitral proceedings.

Resorting to the very broad concept of “autonomy” of its legal order, the ECJ has seemingly put an end to the longstanding quarrel between the Commission and its Member States on the compatibility of Bilateral Investment Treaties and their dispute settlement mechanisms with EU law. But what are these incompatibilities? And can they be overcome?

On 3 July, Carmen Martinez Lopez, Partner at Three Crowns LLP, will guide us through these and other issues relating to the intertwinement between EU law and investment arbitration during the closing event of the 2017/2018 seminar series of the Centre of European Law & the Jean Monnet Network “LawTTIP: Legal Ambiguities Withstanding the TTIP”.