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CETA on investment: the definitive surrender of EU Law to GATS and NAFTA/BITs
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Provisions on investment in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the EU, both on substance and on dispute settlement procedures, culminate a long process of replacement of the original EECT/ECT approach to establishment by the approaches followed by the World Trade Organization (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs). The article analyzes this process; it focuses in particular the law of external relations but takes into account the evolution of the law of the internal market and can also be read from this perspective as, in the authors’ opinion, the evolution in the former throws light on the latter. The article intends to leave the legal facts to speak by themselves. By unveiling their rationale, it also gives rise to political concerns regarding the evolution of the law. As CETA limits the ability of the EU to legislate and erodes the European Court of Justice’s role, the article leads to the conclusion that the underlying rationale for the evolution, both in the internal and the external areas, has not been that of promoting integration but that of deregulation.
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FERNÁNDEZ PONS, Xavier, POLANCO, Rodrigo and TORRENT, Ramon. CETA on investment: the definitive surrender of EU Law to GATS and NAFTA/BITs. Common Market Law Review. 2017. Vol. 54, num. 1319-1358. ISSN 0165-0750. [consulted: 6 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/207002