"Abbreviations" [2014] ELECD 808; in Kamperman Sanders, Anselm (ed), "The Principle of National Treatment in International Economic Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) xi

Book Title: The Principle of National Treatment in International Economic Law

Editor(s): Kamperman Sanders, Anselm

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783471218

Section Title: Abbreviations

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Abbreviations
AB Appellate Body of the WTO
ADR Alternative Dispute Resolution
ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations
BCBerne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic
Works, 1886
BIT Bilateral Investment Treaty
BoA Board of Appeal
CDR Community Design Regulation
CJEU Court of Justice of the European Union (until December
2009: the Court of Justice of the European Community)
CTMD Community Trade Mark Directive
CTMR Community Trade Mark Regulation
DSU Dispute Settlement Understanding of the WTO
EPC European Patent Convention
EPO European Patent Office
FDI Foreign Direct Investment
FET Fair and Equitable Treatment
FTA Free Trade Agreement
GATS General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS
Agreement)
GATT The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT
Agreement)
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GSP General Systems of Preferences
ICSID Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes
between States and Nationals of Other States
IIA International Investment Agreement
IISD International Institute for Sustainable Development
IP Intellectual Property

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IPIC Treaty on Intellectual Property in Respect of Integrated
Circuits, Washington, 1989
ISDS Investor­State Dispute Settlement
MFN Most-Favoured Nation Treatment Principle
NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
NIEO New International Economic Order
OECD Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
OHIM Office for the Harmonization of the Internal Market (trade
marks and designs)
OJ Official Journal of the European Union
PC Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property,
1883
PCT Patent Cooperation Treaty, Washington, 1970
PLT Patent Law Treaty, ...