Kluwer: The Right to Regulate in the EU-Angola Sustainable Investment Agreement: What Lessons for Investment Protection?
Published on January 1, 2025
By Luís Heleno Terrinha (NOVA School of Law and PLMJ Lawyers)
The EU-Angola Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement (“SIFA” or the “Agreement”) aims at facilitating sustainable investments. Contrary to traditional investment treaties, it does not include substantive protection standards nor investor-State dispute settlement mechanisms. Rather, it seeks to enhance the regulatory landscape of the Parties to make it more investor-friendly. In this post, I wish to focus...