The application and implications of the principle of autonomy for international investment agreements concluded by the Member States and the European Union (EU) has become a recurrent theme before the Court of Justice of the European Union. The decisions in Achmea and Opinion 1/17 show that autonomy unfolds differently in intra- and extra-EU investment relations and can only be preserved in the latter context. The present article examines this difference and, in light of Opinion 1/17 , seeks to explain how and why the autonomy of EU law can be preserved for international investment agreements through careful treaty design. In addition, it sheds some light on the practical consequences for the EU’s and the Member States’ external investment relations.
Author and article information
Journal
Journal ID (publisher-id): EWLR
Title:
Europe and the World: A law review
Publisher:
UCL Press
ISSN
(Electronic):
2399-2875
Publication date
(Electronic):
29
September
2020
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Electronic Location Identifier: 9
Affiliations
Research Associate, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, and PhD candidate, University
of Passau, Lüneburg, Germany;
gesa.kuebek@
123456leuphana.de
How to Cite G. Kübek, ‘Autonomy and international investment agreements after
Opinion 1/17’ [2020] 4(
1): 9.
Europe and the World: A law review [15]. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ewlj.2020.27.