Morelli, Antonio --- "AMENDMENTS" [2018] ELECD 1575; in Leal-Arcas, Rafael (ed), "Commentary on the Energy Charter Treaty" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 469

Book Title: Commentary on the Energy Charter Treaty

Editor(s): Leal-Arcas, Rafael

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781788117487

Section: ARTICLE 42

Section Title: AMENDMENTS

Author(s): Morelli, Antonio

Number of pages: 3

Abstract/Description:

Article 42 of the ECT regulates the procedure of amending treaty provisions. The author analyses both formal and substantial aspects, in order to provide a clear framework for ECT interpreters. Moreover, the analysis sheds lights on the 1998 amendment of the ECT, the so-called Trade Amendment. Pictured at the time of the entry into force of the World Trade Organization (WTO), with the Uruguay Round, the ECT Trade Amendment embraced in the treaty regime relevant principles in multilateral trade and, in turn, expanded the scope of the agreement, in order to cover trade in energy-related spheres.