欧盟ISDS机制改革实践评析

A Study on the ISDS Reform in the EU

投资者—国家间争端解决机制渊源于国际商事仲裁,其目的是为了这类争端解决的非政治化。在其后的发展中,这一机制逐渐显现出若干缺陷,国际社会为此进行了较大的探讨,并提出了若干改革建议。欧盟在拥有了调整直接投资的专属权能后,对ISDS机制给予了较多的关注,在其谈判投资协定的实践中逐步提出关于该机制的改革建议。TTIP草案中的建议是目前最为激进的改革方案,它引入了WTO争端解决机制的元素,将ISDS机制从仲裁推入诉讼,以期消除该机制存在的缺陷,追求东道国公共利益的平衡。

ISDS is derived from international commercial arbitration,the purpose is non-political to settle the investor-state investment disputes. In the subsequent development of this mechanism gradually revealed a number of defects,the international community to carry out a larger study and put forward a number of reform proposals. The EU has adjusted in direct investment exclusive power,more attention to the ISDS mechanism to gradually bring about themechanism,reform proposals in the practice of negotiating investment agreements,TTIP draft proposal is the most radical reforms,it introduces some elements of the dispute settlement mechanism of WTO into ISDS and develops it from arbitration into litigation,in order to eliminate the defects of the mechanism and pursuit of balance between the public and private interest.