• Linkedin
  • Twitter
  • Rss

Oil, Gas & Energy Law

Skip navigation

Oil, Gas & Energy Law

Global Energy Law & Regulation Portal

Join OGELFORUM

Oil, Gas & Energy Law

Global Energy Law & Regulation Portal

  • Sign in
  • Subscribe
  • Home
  • Sign in
  • About About
    1. Home
    2. About
    3. About OGEL
    4. About OGEL
    5. Founding Editor T.W. Wälde
    6. T.W. Wälde
    7. Editorial team
    8. Editorial team
    9. Contributing Authors
    10. Contributing Authors
    11. Subscriptions
    12. Subscriptions
  • Journal Journal
    1. Home
    2. Journal
    3. Browse Issues
    4. Browse
    5. Articles by Category
    6. By Category
    7. Articles by Author
    8. By Author
    9. Advance publication
    10. Advance publication
    11. Specials
    12. Specials
    13. Search
    14. Search
    15. Book reviews
    16. Reviews
  • Legal & Regulatory docs. L & R docs
    1. Home
    2. Legal & Regulatory docs.
    3. L&R by Country
    4. L&R by Country
    5. L&R by Category
    6. L&R by Category
    7. L&R recent additions
    8. L&R recent additions
    9. Search
    10. Search
  • OGELFORUM OGELFORUM
    1. Home
    2. OGELFORUM
    3. About OGELFORUM
    4. About OGELFORUM
    5. Browse archive
    6. Browse by date / topic
    7. Search
    8. Search
    9. Join
    10. Join
  • News & Events Events
    1. Home
    2. News & Events
    3. News
    4. News
    5. Events
    6. Events
  • OGEL Studies OGEL Studies
    1. Home
    2. OGEL Studies
    3. About OGEL Studies
    4. About OGEL Studies
  • Subscribe
Home > Legal & Regulatory docs.

RWE AG and RWE Eemshaven Holding II BV v Kingdom of the Netherlands - ICSID Case No. ARB/21/4 - Decision on the Claimant's Request for Provisional Measures - 16 August 2022

  • Sign in to download document
Country
  • Germany
  • Netherlands
Year

2022

Summary

Reproduced from www.worldbank.org/icsid with permission of ICSID.

CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION
II. BACKGROUND
III. THE PARTIES' REQUEST FOR RELIEF

A. The Claimants' Request for Relief
B. The Respondent's Request for Relief

IV. SUMMARY OF THE PARTIES' POSITIONS ON THE REQUEST

A. The Claimants' Position
B. The Respondent's Position

V. THE TRIBUNAL'S ANALYSIS

A. Applicable Standards
B. Analysis of the Claimants' Request

VI. ORDER

I. INTRODUCTION

1. This Decision addresses the Request for Provisional Measures submitted by RWE AG and RWE Eemshaven Holding II BV (together, the Claimants or RWE) on 29 April 2022, in which the Claimants ask the Tribunal to direct the Kingdom of the Netherlands (the Respondent or the Netherlands) to withdraw or suspend proceedings against RWE AG before the Higher Regional Court of Cologne (the Request). The Netherlands opposes the Request.

...

VI. ORDER

93. For the reasons stated above, the Tribunal DECIDES and ORDERS as follows:

(A) The Claimants' Request for Provisional Measures ordering the Respondent immediately to withdraw or discontinue the German Proceedings or, alternatively, to suspend the German Proceedings pending the Tribunal's award in this arbitration, is denied at this time;

(B) The Tribunal recommends that the Respondent not aggravate this dispute by seeking to restrain the Claimants from participating fully in this arbitration, whether by injunctive relief in the German courts or any other action, either before or after any decision in the current German Proceedings, without first providing sufficient notice to the Claimants of its intention to do so such as to allow a renewed application for provisional measures to this Tribunal;

(C) The Tribunal recommends that the Respondent reconsider the necessity and appropriateness of continuing the proceedings before the Cologne Court, as the Parties do not dispute that the Court of Justice of the European Union has determined that Article 26 of the Energy Charter Treaty should be interpreted so as not to apply to intra-EU disputes;

(D) The Tribunal recommends that the Respondent communicate this Decision to the Higher Regional Court of Cologne; and

(E) The issue of costs is reserved to a later stage of the arbitration.

For the Tribunal
Lucy Reed
President of the Tribunal
Date: 16 August

To download this document you need to be a subscriber

Sign in

Forgot password?

Sign in

Subscribe

Fill in the registration form and answer a few simple questions to receive a quote.

Subscribe now

Documents missing? Documents to share? Let us know!

If you know of documents which are currently missing from our Legal & Regulatory database do let us know. You can send them directly to us for inclusion in the database, anonymously or otherwise.
Learn more here

Call for contributions

OGEL Call for Papers: International Energy and Investment Law Implications of the US Inflation Reduction Act

Tade Oyewunmi, Frédéric Sourgens, Scot W. Anderson, and Almira Moronne

  • Tade Oyewunmi
  • Frédéric Sourgens
  • Scot Anderson
  • Almira Moronne

OGEL Call for Papers: Climate Litigation and the Energy Sector

Prof. Kim Talus

  • Kim Talus

OGEL Call for Papers: The Impact of the War in Ukraine on the Energy Sector

Agnieszka Ason, Konstantin Christie, Prof. Kim Talus

  • Agnieszka Ason
  • Konstantin Christie
  • Kim Talus

Call for Papers: OGEL Energy Law Journal 2023

Call for Papers: OGEL Energy Law Journal 2023

OGEL Editorial Team

  • More
  • Contribute

Advance publication

Now available in OGEL 3 (2023): Sustainable Pathways to Balancing Decarbonization in the Face of Fossil Energy Dependence, Nigeria as a Case Study

1 Sep 2023

M.P. Ezekiel, F. Dimowo

  • M.P. Ezekiel
  • F. Dimowo

Individuals and NGOs vs Corporations in the Pursuit of Climate Accountability. In the Spotlight: The Italian Oil Major ENI

1 Sep 2023

S. Nedeva

  • S. Nedeva

Advancing the Net Zero Transition: A Critical Review of the Laws on Decarbonisation of the Nigerian Gas Sector

15 Aug 2023

U.V. Obi SAN

  • U.V. Obi  SAN
  • More
  • Contribute

Stay connected

Sign up for our email alerts.

  • Issues
  • Advance publication
  • News
  • Linkedin
  • Twitter
  • RSS

Join the debate

Want to join OGELFORUM, our unique platform for oil, gas and energy issues?

Simply fill in the registration form to start your trial membership.

Download the app

  1. App store
  2. Google play

The Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence (OGEL, ISSN 1875-418X) Journal and OGELFORUM listserv focus on recent developments in the area of oil, gas, energy law, regulation, treaties, judicial and arbitral cases, voluntary guidelines, tax and contracting, including the oil, gas, energy geopolitics. Read our Terms & Conditions here, and our Privacy Policy here.

About OGEL

  • Terms & Conditions
  • Contribute
  • Subscriptions
  • Contact
  • Help

Other publications

  • Transnational Dispute Management (TDM)

© 2004 - 2023. Published by MARIS.

  • Home
  • Contribute
  • Subscriptions
  • Contact
  • Help