Introduction

Translation into French with a short introduction in English. The original decision of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador is included as an Annex.[1] Soon after the denunciation of the ICSID Convention, the government of Ecuador initiated the denunciation process of thirteen Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT). On January 6, 2010, the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, requested the Constitutional Court's favorable decision in order to denounce Ecuador's BITs with Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, ...