Introduction

In its communication Towards a comprehensive European international investment policy (COM(2010) 343 final) published on 7 July 2010 alongside its proposal for regulation 1219/2012, the Commission identified the development of investment protection in economic agreements concluded by the EU with third countries as a way of developing its new investment protection policy. Current EU economic agreements with third States, whose number has increased in the last few years, already offer a minimum investment protection based on the 2006 Minimum Platform on Investment, but the new ...