Programme

9:00 – 10:00 – Welcome at the Foyer

10:00 – 10:30 – Opening

• 10:00 – 10:10 – Welcome by the University of Groningen
• 10:10 – 10:30 – Opening Speech by Secretary General Hugo Siblesz / Permanent Court of Arbitration

Panel 1 : Developments in Investor-State Dispute Settlement (10:30 – 12:00)

• Investment Mediation and the Model Instrument on Management of Investment Disputes (Dr. Alejandro Carballo Leyda / Energy Charter Secretariat)
• UNCITRAL and ISDS reform (Prof. Hans van Houtte / KU Leuven)
• Future Investor-State Dispute Settlement under the ECT (Thomas Nauta / Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

12:00 – 13:00 – Lunch

Panel 2 : Modernizing the Substantive Provisions of the Energy Charter Treaty (13:00 – 15:00)

• Investment: liberalization and protection of FDI in the energy sector (Dr. Richard Happ / Luther)
• Renewable Energy Sources (Cees Verburg / University of Groningen)
• Transit: Challenges in the Energy Charter Context (Dr. Yulia Selivanova / Independent Consultant)
• Intra-EU Applicability of the ECT (Petra Nemeckova / Legal Service European Commission)
• Modernization of the ECT and the Russian Federation (Dr. Sergey Seliverstov / Sokolov, Maslov and Partners)

15:00 – 15:30 – Coffee Break

Key Note Speech (15:30 – 16:15)

• 15:30 – 16:15 – Key Note Speech by Graham Coop / Volterra Fietta: The Contribution of the Energy Charter Treaty to the development of International Investment Law - Past and Future
• 16:15 – 16:30 Official Closure

16:30 – 18:00 Drinks Reception