The Investment Plan for Europe adopted in November 2014 as the first major initiative of the Juncker Commission is now operational and has the potential to bring investment back in line with its historic trends.

37. Supports the goal of establishing, at multilateral level, an investment protection regime, with a new system whereby the jurisdiction of national courts is respected, and calls on the Commission to incorporate this objective into its negotiating agenda for the drafting of agreements on investment; is of the opinion that, should a permanent international court for the settlement of investment disputes be created, it could be located within the UN system, and should be based on the rights and obligations of those subject to the court, with an emphasis on the OECD principles for multinational enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles o ...[+++]n Business and Human Rights; considers that the UN system provides useful templates for such a system, in particular for questions of financing;

9. Supports the goal of establishing, at multilateral level, an investment protection regime, with a new system whereby the jurisdiction of national courts is respected, and calls on the Commission to incorporate this objective into its negotiating agenda for the drafting of agreements on investment; is of the opinion that, should a permanent international court for the settlement of investment disputes be created, it could be located within the UN system, and should be based on the rights and obligations of those subject to the court, with an emphasis on the OECD principles for multinational enterprises and the UN principles on busines ...[+++]s and human rights; considers that the UN system provides useful templates for such a system, in particular for questions of financing;

35. Supports the goal of establishing, at multilateral level, an investment protection regime, with a new system whereby the jurisdiction of national courts is respected, and calls on the Commission to incorporate this objective into its negotiating agenda for the drafting of agreements on investment; is of the opinion that, should a permanent international court for the settlement of investment disputes be created, it could be located within the UN system, and should be based on the rights and obligations of those subject to the court, with an emphasis on the OECD principles for multinational enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles o ...[+++]n Business and Human Rights; considers that the UN system provides useful templates for such a system, in particular for questions of financing;

– having regard to UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2012, the 2011 United Nations (UN) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the UN Guiding principles on human rights impact assessments of trade and investment agreements, the UNCTAD/FAO/World Bank/IFAD Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment, the 2011 Revision of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the Doha Mandate adopted at UNCTAD’s XIII Ministerial Conference in 2012 and the Rio+20 Conference in 2012,

9. Stresses the importance of ensuring that investment treaties are consistent with all other policies affecting developing countries, and therefore that they include clauses on human rights, gender equality, the environment, decent work, transparency and the fight against illicit capital flows; accordingly, takes the view that EU agreements should improve on the model provided by existing Member State bilateral investment treaties by broadening the objectives (to include sustainable development), containing more precise provisions ( ...[+++]especially on the definition of foreign direct investment and indirect expropriation), building in limitations (to enable control of capital movement), and adding obligations for investors and home-country governments;