Kluwer: The Completion of the Modernisation of the ECT and the Provisional Application of the Modernised ECT

Published on December 30, 2024

By Johannes Tropper (University of Vienna)

The modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty (“ECT”), which essentially started in 2018, resulted in an agreement in principle (“AIP”) on modernising the ECT in June 2022. The modernised ECT should have been adopted by the Energy Charter Conference (“Conference”) in November 2022. However, it was not adopted until 3 December 2024 due to a...