Keywords

• Article 20
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
• Opinion pursuant to Article 218(11) TFEU
• Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada, of the one part, and the European Union and its Member States, of the other part (CETA)
• Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)
• Establishment of a Tribunal and an Appellate Tribunal
• Compatibility with primary EU law
• Requirement to respect the autonomy of the EU legal order
• Level of protection of public interests determined, in accordance with the EU constitutional framework, by the EU institutions
• Equal treatment of Canadian investors and EU investors
• Access to the above Tribunals and their independence
• Article 47 of the Charter
• Financial accessibility
• Commitment to guarantee that accessibility for natural persons and small and medium-sized enterprises
• External and internal aspects of the requirement of independence
• Appointment, remuneration and ethics of the Members
• Role of the CETA Joint Committee
• Binding interpretations of the CETA determined by that Committee.