Investor-State Arbitration Laws And Regulations 2020

1 Treaties: Current Status and Future Developments

1.1 What bilateral and multilateral treaties and trade agreements has your jurisdiction ratified?

Trends in trade and investment policies in the MENA region held at the Dead Sea, Jordan 27–28 November 2018 reported that the United Arab Emirates has rectified and participated in a number of agreements and treaties. With 37 Bilateral Investment Treaties already in force, we can see that the United Arab Emirates has signed a variety of bilateral and multilateral investment treaties. It is a founding member of the Gulf Cooperating Council (GCC), and through its participation in it has signed preferential trade agreements with Singapore (signed 2008 and in force 2013) and the European Free Trade Association (signed 2009 and in force 2014). The United Arab Emirates is a party to the Pan Arab Free Trade Agreement (PAFTA/GAFTA) (1998), and, as of 4 September 2018, has signed 62 bilateral investment treaties with developed