2016 compromise with Wallonia to prevent trade deal’s undoing required a court referral from Belgium
Canada’s trade deal with the European Union dodged another bullet Tuesday when the advocate general for the EU’s Court of Justice released legal advice that concluded the deal’s investor-state dispute settlement mechanism is compatible with EU law.
In his opinion, Yves Bot said a tribunal created to arbitrate trade disputes under the agreement is not a threat to the autonomy of EU law or to the European Court of Justice’s jurisdiction to interpret it.
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