Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, discussed the key issues and elements of the Court's Opinion 1/17 on CETA, the trade agreement between the European Union and Canada, at a seminar organised by his services on Friday 6 September.
At the heart of this opinion, which concerned the Investment Court system (ICS), provided for without CETA: the clarification by the Court as to the autonomy of the European legal order (see EUROPE B12245A3).
The Court stated in...