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Europe BITs

Many, if not most, European governments have bilateral investment treaties (BITs) with other countries. A number of them have online databases where the public can access individual treaties or learn more about the objectives and status of their BIT negotiation programmes.

last update: May 2012


EU-India BIT text (EU proposal, Mar 2022)
Draft convention on investments abroad (Abs-Shawcross draft convention)
One of the most significant early proposals for a multilateral agreement to protect private foreign investment was launched in 1957 by groups of European business people, and lawyers.
EU-China BIT: schedules annex (Mar 2021)
EU-China BIT partial text (Jan 2021)
Belgium and Luxembourg model BIT text (2019)
Netherlands model investment agreement (Oct 2018)
As released by the Government of the Netherlands