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4) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this decision shall derogate, as concerns Article 16, from the rights hereunder of a Contracting Party, its investors of their investments, or from the obligations of a Contracting Party;

5) For the purposes of this decision: «current transactions» are current payments connected with the movement of goods, services or persons that are made in accordance with normal international practice, and do not include arrangements which materially constitute a combination of a current payment and a capital transaction, such as deferrals of payments and advances which is meant to circumvent respective legislation of the Limiting Party in the fiel.

(nota *) This decision has been drafted in the understanding that Contracting Parties which intend to avail themselves of it and which also have entered into partnership and cooperation agreements with the European Communities and their Member States containing an article disapplying those agreements in favour of the Treaty, will exchange letters of understanding which have the legal effect of making article 16 of the Treaty applicable between them in relation to this decision. The exchange of letters shall be completed in good time prior to signature.

4 - With respect to article 14, 2). - Without prejudice to the requirements of article 14 and its other international obligations, Romania shall endeavour during the transition to full convertibility of its national currency to take appropriate steps to improve the efficiency of its procedures for the transfers of investment returns and shall in any case guarantee such transfers in a freely convertible currency without restriction or a delay exceeding six months. Romania shall ensure that investments in its area of the investors of all other Contracting Parties are accorded, with respect to transfers, treatment no less favourable than that which it accords to investments of investors of any other Contracting Party or of any third State, whichever it the most favourable.

5 - With respect to articles 24, 4), a), and 25. - An investment of an investor referred to in article 1, 7), a), iii), of a Contracting Party which is not party to ari EIA or a member of a free-trade area or a customs union, shall be entitled to treatment accorded under such EIA, free-trade area or customs union, provided that the investment:

ANNEX 3

ENERGY CHARTER PROTOCOL ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS

Preamble

The Contracting Parties to this Protocol:

Having regard to the European Energy Charter adopted in the Concluding Document of the Hague Conference on the European Energy Charter, signed at The Hague on 17 December 1991; and in particular to the declarations therein that cooperation is necessary in the field of energy efficiency and related environmental protection;

Having regard also to the Energy Charter Treaty, opened for signature from 17 December 1994 to 16 June 1995;

Mindful of the work undertaken by international organizations and fora in the field of energy efficiency and environmental aspects of the energy cycle;

Aware of the improvements in supply security, and of the significant economic and environmental gains, which result from the implementation of cost-effective energy efficiency measures; and aware of their importance for restructuring economies and improving living standards;

Recognizing that improvements in energy efficiency reduce negative environmental consequences of the energy cycle including global warming and acidification;

Convinced that energy prices should reflect as far as possible a competitive market, ensuring market-oriented price formation, including fuller reflection of environmental costs and benefits, and recognizing that such price formation is vital to progress in energy efficiency and associated environmental protection;

Appreciating the vital role of the private sector including small and medium-sized enterprises in promoting and implementing energy efficiency measures, and intent on ensuring a favourable institutional framework for economically viable investment in energy efficiency;

Recognizing that commercial forms of cooperation may need to be complemented by intergovernmental cooperation, particularly in the area of energy policy formulation and analysis as well as in other areas which are essential to the enhancement of energy efficiency but not suitable for private funding; and

Desiring to undertake cooperative and coordinated action in the field of energy efficiency and related environmental protection and to adopt a Protocol providing a framework for using energy as economically and efficiently as possible;

have agreed as follows:

PART I

Introduction

Article I

Scope and objectives of the Protocol

1) This Protocol defines policy principles for the promotion of energy efficiency as a considerable source of energy and for consequently reducing adverse environmental impacts of energy systems. It furthermore provides guidance on the development of energy efficiency programmes, indicates areas of cooperation and provides a framework for the development of cooperative and coordinated action. Such action may include the prospecting for, exploration, production, conversion, storage, transport, distribution, and consumption of energy, and may relate to any economic sector.

2) The objectives of this Protocol are:

Article 2

Definitions

As used in this Protocol:

1) «Charter» means the European Energy Charter adopted in the Concluding Document of the Hague Conference on the European Energy Charter, signed at The Hague on 17 December 1991; signature of the Concluding Document is considered to be signature of the Charter;

2) «Contracting Party» means a state or regional economic integration organization which has consented to be bound by this Protocol and for which the Protocol is in force;

3) «Regional economic integration organization» means an organization constituted by states to which they have transferred competence over certain matters a number of which are governed by this Protocol, including the authority to take decisions binding on them in respect of those matters;

4) «Energy cycle» means the entire energy chain, including activities related to prospecting for, exploration, production, conversion, storage, transport, distribution and consumption of the various forms of energy, and the treatment and disposal of wastes, as well as the decomissioning, cessation or closure of these activities, minimizing harmful environmental impacts;

5) «Cost-effectiveness» means to achieve a defined objective at the lowest cost or to achieve the greatest benefit at a given cost;

6) «Improving energy efficiency» means acting to maintain the same unit of output (of a good or service) without reducing the quality or performance of the output, while reducing the amount of energy required to produce that output;

7) «Environmental impact» means any effect caused by a given activity on the environment, including human health and safety, flora, fauna, soil, air, water, climate, landscape and historical monuments or other physical structures or the interactions among these factors; it also includes effects on cultural heritage or socio-economic conditions resulting from alterations to those factors.

PART II

Policy principles

Article 3

Basic principles

Contracting Parties shall be guided by the following principles:

1) Contracting Parties shall cooperate and, as appropriate, assist each other in developing and implementing energy efficiency policies, laws and regulations;

2) Contracting Parties shall establish energy efficiency policies and appropriate legal and regulatory frameworks which promote, inter alia:

3) Contracting Parties shall strive to achieve the full benefit of energy efficiency throughout the energy cycle. To this end they shall, to the best of their competence, formulate and implement energy efficiency policies and cooperative or coordinated actions based on cost-effectiveness and economic efficiency, taking due account of environmental aspects;

4) Energy efficiency policies shall include both short-term measures for the adjustment of previous pratices and long-term measures to improve energy efficiency throughout the energy cycle;

5) When cooperating to achieve the objectives of this Protocol, Contracting Parties shall take into account the differences in adverse effects and abatement costs between Contracting Parties;

6) Contracting Parties recognize the vital role of the private sector. They shall encourage action by energy utilities, responsible authorities and specialised agencies, and close cooperation between industry and administrations;

7) Cooperative or coordinated action shall take into account relevant principles adopted in international agreements, aimed at protection and improvement of the environment to which Contracting Parties are parties;

8) Contracting Parties shall take full advantage of the work and expertise of competent international or other bodies and shall take care to avoid duplication.

Article 4

Division of responsibility and coordination

Each Contracting Parties shall strive to ensure that energy efficiency policies are coordinated among all of its responsible authorities.

Article 5

Strategies and policy aims

Contructing Parties shall formulate strategies and policy aims for improving energy efficiency and thereby reducing environmental impacts of the energy cycle as appropriate in relation to their own specific energy conditions. These strategies and policy aims shall be transparent to all interested parties.

Article 6

Financing and financial incentives

1) Contracting Parties shall encourage the implementation of new approaches and methods for financing energy efficiency and energy-related environmental protection investments, such as joint venture arrangements between energy users and external investors (hereinafter referred to as «third party financing»).

2) Contracting Parties shall endeavour to take advantage of and promote access to private capital markets and existing international financing institutions in order to facilitate investments in improving energy efficiency and in environmental protection related to energy efficiency.

3) Contracting Parties may, subject to the provisions of the Energy Charter Treaty and to their other international legal obligations, provide fiscal or financial incentives to energy users in order to facilitate market penetration of energy efficiency technologies, products and services. They shall strive to do so in a manner that both ensures transparency and minimizes the distortion of international markets.

Article 7

Promotion of energy efficient technology

1) Consistent with the provisions of the Energy Charter Treaty, Contracting Parties shall encourage commercial trade and cooperation in energy efficient and environmentally sound technologies, energy-related services and management practices.

2) Contracting Parties shall promote the use of these technologies, services and management practices throughout the energy cycle.

Article 8

Domestic programmes

1) In order to achieve the policy aims formulated according to article 5, each Contracting Party shall develop, implement and regularly update energy efficiency programmes best suited to its circumstances.

2) These programmes may include activities such as the:

3) In implementing their energy efficiency programmes, Contracting Parties shall ensure that adequate institutional and legal infrastructures exist.

PART III

International cooperation

Article 9

Areas of cooperation

The cooperation between Contracting Parties may take any appropriate form. Areas of possible cooperation are listed in the annex.

PART IV

Administrative and legal arrangements

Article 10

Role of the Charter Conference

1) All decisions made by the Charter Conference in accordance with this Protocol shall be made by only those Contracting Parties to the Energy Charter Treaty who are Contracting Parties to this Protocol.

2) The Charter Conference shall endeavour to adopt, within 180 days after the entry into force of this Protocol, procedures for keeping under review and facilitating the implementation of its provisions, including reporting requirements, as well as for identifying areas of cooperation in accordance with article 9.

Article II

Secretariat and financing

1) The Secretariat established under article 35 of the Energy Charter Treaty shall provide the Charter Conference with all necessary assistance for the performance of its duties under this Protocol and provide such other services in support of the Protocol as may be required from time to time, subject to approval by the Charter Conference.

2) The costs of the Secretariat and Charter Conference arising from this Protocol shall be met by Contracting Parties to this Protocol according to their capacity to pay, determined according to the formula specified in annex B to the Energy Charter Treaty.

Article 12

Voting

1) Unanimity of Contracting Parties present and voting at the meeting of the Charter Conference where such matters fall be decided shall be required for decisions to:

Contracting Parties shall make every effort to reach agreement by consensus on any other matter requiring their decision under this Protocol. If agreement cannot be reached by consensus, decisions on non-budgetary matters shall be taken by a three-fourths majority of Contracting Parties present and voting at the meeting of the Charter Conference at which such matters fall to be decided.

Decisions on budgetary matters shall be taken by a qualified majority of Contracting Parties whose assessed contributions under article 11, 2), represent, in combination, at least three-fourths of the total assessed contributions.

2) For purposes of this article, «Contracting Parties present and voting» means Contracting Parties to this Protocol present and casting affirmative or negative votes, provided that the Charter Conference may decide upon rules of procedure to enable such decisions to be taken by Contracting Parties by correspondence.

3) Except as provided in paragraph 1) in relation to budgetary matters, no decision referred to in this article shall be valid unless it has the support of a simple majority of Contracting Parties.

4) A regional economic integration organization shall, when voting, have a number of votes equal to the number of its member states which are Contracting Parties to this Protocol; provided that such an organization shall not exercise its right to vote if its member states exercise theirs, and vice versa.

5) In the event of persistent an-ears in a Contracting Party's discharge of financial obligations under this Protocol, the Charter Conference may suspend that Contracting Party's voting rights in whole or in part.

Article 13

Relation to the Energy Charter Treaty

1) In the event of inconsistency between the provisions of this Protocol and the provisions of the Energy Charter Treaty, the provisions of the Energy Charter Treaty shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, prevail.

2) Article 10, 1), and article 12, 1) to 3), shall not apply to votes in the Charter Conference on amendments to this Protocol which assign duties or functions to the Charter Conference or the Secretariat, the establishment of which is provided for in the Energy Charter Treaty.

PART V

Final provisions

Article 14

Signature

This Protocol shall be open for signature at Lisbon from 17 December 1994 to 16 June 1995 by the states and regional economic integration organizations whose representatives have signed the Charter and the Energy Charter Treaty.

Article 15

Ratification, acceptance or approval

This Protocol shall be subject to ratification, acceptance or approval by signatories. Instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with the depositary.

Article 16

Accession

The Protocol shall be open for accession, from the date on which the Protocol is closed for signature, by states and regional economic integration organizations which have signed the Charter and are Contracting Parties to the Energy Charter Treaty, on terms to be approved by the Charter Conference. The instruments of accession shall be deposited with the depositary.

Article 17

Amendments

1) Any Contracting Party may propose amendments to this Protocol.

2) The text of any proposed amendment to this Protocol shall be communicated to Contracting Parties by the Secretariat at least three months before the date on which it is proposed for adoption by the Charter Conference.

3) Amendments to this Protocol, texts of which have been adopted by the Charter Conference, shall be communicated by the Secretariat to the depositary which shall submit them to all Contracting Parties for ratification, acceptance or approval.

4) Instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval of amendments to this Protocol shall be deposited with the depositary. Amendments shall enter into force between Contracting Parties having ratified, accepted or approved them on the thirtieth day after deposit with the depositary of instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval by at least three-fourths of the Contracting Parties. Thereafter the amendments shall enter into force for any other Contracting Party on the thirtieth day after that Contracting Party deposits its instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval of the amendments.

Article 18

Entry into force

1) This Protocol shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the date of deposit of the fifteenth instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval thereof, or of accession thereto, by a state or regional economic integration organization which is a signatory to the Charter and a Contracting Party to the Energy Charter Treaty or on the same date as the Energy Charter Treaty enters into force, whichever is later.

2) For each state or regional economic integration organization for which the Energy Charter Treaty has entered into force and which ratifies, accepts, or approves this Protocol or accedes thereto after the Protocol has entered into force in accordance with paragraph 1), the Protocol shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the date of deposit by such state or regional economic integration organization of its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.

3) For the purposes of paragraph 1), any instrument deposited by a regional economic integration organization shall not be counted as additional to those deposited by member states of such organization.

Article 19

Reservations

No reservations may be made to this Protocol.

Article 20

Withdrawal

1) At any time after this Protocol has entered into force for a Contracting Party, that Contracting Party may give written notification to the depositary of its withdrawal from the Protocol.

2) Any Contracting Party which withdrawl from the Energy Charter Treaty shall be considered as also having withdrawn from this Protocol.

3) The effective date of withdrawal under paragraph 1) shall be ninety days after receipt of notification by the depositary. The effective date of withdrawal under paragraph 2) shall be the same as the effective date of withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty.

Article 21

Depositary

The Government of the Portuguese Republic shall be the depositary of this Protocol.

Article 22

Authentic texts

In witness whereof the undersigned, being duly authorized to that effect, have signed this Protocol in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish, of which every text is equally authentic, in one original, which will be deposited with the Government of the Portuguese Republic.

Done at Lisbon on the seventeenth day of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four.

ANNEX

Illustrative and non-exhaustive list of possible areas of cooperation pursuant to article 9

Development of energy efficiency programmes, including identifying energy efficiency barriers and potentials, and the development of energy labelling and efficiency standards.

Assessment of the environmental impacts of the energy cycle.

Development of economic, legislative and regulatory measures.

Technology transfer, technical assistance and industrial joint ventures subject to international property rights regimes and other applicable international agreements.

Research and development.

Education, training, information and statistics.

Identification and assessment of measures such as fiscal or other market-based instruments, including tradeable permits to take account of external, notably environmental, costs and benefits.

Energy analysis and policy formulation:

Assessment of energy efficiency potentials;

Energy demand analysis and statistics;

Development of legislative and regulatory measures;

Integrated resource planning and demand side management Environmental impact assessment, including major energy projects.

Evaluation of economic instruments for improving energy efficiency and environmental objectives.

Energy efficiency analysis in refining, conversion, transport and distribution of hydro-carbons.

Improving energy efficiency in power generation and transmission:

Cogeneration;

Plant component (boilers, turbines, generators, etc.);

Network integration.

Improving energy efficiency in the building sector:

Thermal insulation standards, passive solar and ventilation;

Space heating and air conditioning systems;

High efficiency low NO(índice x) burners;

Metering technologies and individual metering;

Domestic appliances and lighting.

Municipalities and local community services:

District heating systems;

Efficient gas distribution systems;

Energy planning technologies;

Twinning of towns or of other relevant territorial entities;

Energy management in cities and in public buildings; Waste management and energy recovery of waste.

Improving energy efficiency in the industrial sector:

Joint ventures;

Energy cascading, cogeneration and waste heat recovery;

Energy audits.

Improving energy efficiency in the transport sector:

Motor vehicle performance standards;

Development of efficient transport infrastructures.

Information:

Awareness creation;

Data bases: access, technical specifications, information systems;

Dissemination, collection and collation of technical information;

Behavioural studies.

Training and education:

Exchanges of energy managers, officials, engineers and students;

Organization of international training courses.

Financing:

Development of legal framework;

Third party financing;

Joint ventures;

Co-financing.

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FINAL ACT OF THE EUROPEAN ENERGY CHARTER CONFERENCE

I - The final plenary session of the European Energy Charter Conference was held at Lisbon on 16-17 December 1994. Representatives of the Republic of Albania, the Republic of Armenia, Australia, the Republic of Austria, the Azerbaijani Republic, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Bulgaria, Canada, the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Czech Republic, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Estonia, the European Communities, the Republic of Finland, the French Republic, the Republic of Georgia, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Iceland, Ireland, the Italian Republic, Japan, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of Latvia, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Republic of Lithuania, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Moldova, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Poland, the Portuguese Republic, Romania, the Russian Federation, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Slovenia, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Swiss Confederation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Republic of Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America and the Republic of Uzbekistan (hereinafter referred to as «the representatives») participated in the Conference, as did invited observers from certain countries and international organizations.

Background

II - During the meeting of the European Council in Dublin in June 1990, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands suggested that economic recovery in Eastern Europe and the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics could be catalysed and accelerated by cooperation in the energy sector. This suggestion was welcomed by the Council, which invited the Commission of the European Communities to study how best to implement such cooperation. In February 1991 the Commission proposed the concept of a European Energy Charter.

Following discussion of the Commission's proposal in the Council of the European Communities, the European Communities invited the other countries of Western and Eastern Europe, of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the non-European members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to attend a conference in Brussels in July 1991 to launch negotiations on the European Energy Charter. A number of other countries and international organizations were invited to attend the European Energy Charter Conference as observers.

Negotiations on the European Energy Charter were completed in 1991 and the Charter was adopted by signature of a Concluding Document at a conference held at The Hague on 16-17 December 1991. Signatories of the Charter, then or subsequently, include all those listed in section I above, other than observers.

The signatories of the European Energy Charter undertook to pursue the objectives and principales of the Charter and implement and broaden their cooperation as soon as possible by negotiating in good faith a basic agreement and protocols.

The European Energy Charter Conference accordingly began negotiations on a basic agreement - later called the Energy Charter Treaty - designed to promote East-West industrial cooperation by providing legal safeguards in areas such as investment, transit and trade. It also began negotiations on protocols in the fields of energy efficiency, nuclear safety and hydrocarbons, although in the last case negotiations were later suspended until completion of the Energy Charter Treaty.

Negotiations on the Energy Charter Treaty and the Energy Charter Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Environmental Aspects were successfully completed in 1994.

The Energy Charter Treaty

III - As a result of its deliberations the European Energy Charter Conference has adopted the text of the Energy Charter Treaty (hereinafter referred to as the «Treaty») which is set out in annex 1 and decisions with respect thereto which are set out in annex 2, and agreed that the Treaty would be open for signature at Lisbon from 17 December 1994 to 16 June 1995.

Understandings

IV - By signing the Final Act, the representatives agreed to adopt the following understandings with respect to the Treaty:

1 - With respect to the Treaty as a whole:

ii) Prevent the use of pricing systems which, within a particular category of consumers, apply identical prices to customers in different locations;

2 - With respect to article 1, 5):

ii) Construction and operation of power generation facilities, including those powered by wind and other renewable energy sources;

iii) Land transportation, distribution, storage and supply of energy materials and products, e.g., by way of transmission and distribution grids and pipelines or dedicated rail lines, and construction of facilities for such, including the laying of oil, gas, and coal-slurry pipelines;

iv) Removal and disposal of wastes from energy related facilities such as power stations, including radioactive wastes from nuclear power stations;

vi) Marketing and sale of, and trade in energy materials and products, e.g., retail sales of gasoline; and

vii) Research, consulting, planning, management and design activities related to the activities mentioned above, including those aimed at improving energy efficiency.

3 - With respect to article 1, 6). - For greater clarity as to whether an investment made in the area of one Contracting Party is controlled, directly or indirectly, by an investor of any other Contracting Party, control of an investment means control in fact, determined after an examination of the actual circumstances in each situation. In any such examination, all relevant factors should be considered, including the investor's:

Where there is doubt as to whether an investor controls, directly or indirectly, an investment, an investor claiming such control has the burden of proof that such control exists.

4 - With respect to article 1, 8). - Consistent with Australia's foreign investment policy, the establishment of a new mining or raw materials processing project in Australia with total investment of $A 10 million or more by a foreign interest, even where that foreign interest is already operating a similar business in Australia, is considered as the making of a new investment.

5 - With respect to article 1, 12). - The representatives recognize the necessity for adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights according to the highest internationally-accepted standards.

6 - With respect to article 5, 1). - The representatives' agreement to article 5 is not meant to imply any position on whether or to what extent the provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures annexed to the Final Act of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations are implicit in articles III and XI of the GATT.

7 - With respect to article 6:

8 - With respect to article 7, 4). - The applicable legislation would include provisions on environmental protection, land use, safety, or technical standards.

9 - With respect to articles 9, 10 and part v. - As a Contracting Party's programmes which provide for public loans, grants, guarantees or insurance for facilitating trade or investment abroad are not connected with investment or related activities of investors from other Contracting Parties in its area, such programmes may be subject to constraints with respect to participation in them.

10 - With respect to article 10, 4). - The supplementary treaty will specify conditions for applying the treatment described in article 10, 3). Those conditions will include, inter alia, provisions relating to the sale or other divestment of state assets (privatization) and to the dismantling of monopolies (demonopolization).

11 - With respect to articles 10, 4), and 29, 6). - Contracting Parties may consider any connection between the provisions of article 10, 4), and article 29, 6).

12 - With respect to article 14, 5). - It is intended that a Contracting Party which enters into an agreement referred to in article 14, 5), ensure that the conditions of such an agreement are not in contradiction with that Contracting Party's obligations under the articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund.

13 - With respect to article 19, 1), i). - It is for each Contracting Party to decide the extent to which the assessment and monitoring of environmental impacts should be subject to legal requirements, the authorities competent to take decisions in relation to such requirements, and the appropriate procedures to be followed.

14 - With respect to articles 22 and 23. - With regard to trade in energy materials and products governed by article 29, that articles specifies the provisions relevant to the subjects covered by articles 22 and 23.

15 - With respect to article 24. - Exceptions contained in the GATT and related instrument apply between particular Contracting Parties which are parties to the GATT, as recognized by article 4. With respect to trade in energy materials and products governed by article 29, that article specifies the provisions relevant to the subjects covered by article 24.

16 - With respect to article 26, 2), a). - Article 26, 2), a), should not be interpreted to require a Contracting Party to enact part III of the Treaty into its domestic law.

17 - With respect to articles 26 and 27. - The reference to treaty obligations in the penultimate sentence of article 10, 1), does not include decisions taken by international organizations, even if they are legally binding, or treaties which entered into force before 1 January 1970.

18 - With respect to article 29, 2), a):

19 - With respect to article 33. - The provisional Charter Conference should at the earliest possible date decide how best to give effect to the goal of title in of the European Energy Charter that protocols be negotiated in areas of cooperation such as those listed in title III of the Charter.

20 - With respect to article 34:

21 - With respect to article 34, 3), m). - The technical changes to annexes might for instance include, delisting of non-signatories or of signatories that have evinced their intention not to ratify, or additions to annexes N and VC. It is intended that the Secretariat would propose such changes to the Charter Conference when appropriate.

22 - With respect to annex TFU, 1):

Declarations

V - The representatives declared that article 18, 2), shall not be construed to allow the circumvention of the application of the other provisions of the Treaty.

VI - The representatives also noted the following declarations that were made with respect to the Treaty:

1 - With respect to article 1, 6). - The Russian Federation wishes to have reconsidered, in negotiations with regard to the supplementary treaty referred to in article 10, 4), the question of the importance of national legislation with respect to the issue of control as expressed in the understanding to article 1, 6).

2 - With respect to articles 5 and 10, 11). - Australia notes that the provisions of articles 5 and 10, 11), do not diminish its rights and obligations under the GATT, including as elaborated in the Uruguay Round Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures, particularly with respect to the list of exceptions in article 5, 3), which it considers incomplete.

Australia further notes that it would not be appropriate for dispute settlement bodies established under the Treaty to give interpretations of GATT articles III and XI in the context of disputes between parties to the GATT or between an investor of a party to the GATT and another party to the GATT. It considers that with respect to the application of article 10, 11), between an investor and a party to the GATT, the only issue that can be considered under article 26 is the issue of the awards of arbitration in the event that a GATT panel or the WTO dispute settlement body first establishes that a trade-related investment measure maintained by the Contracting Party is inconsistent with its obligations under the GATT or the Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures.

3 - With respect to article 7. - The European Communities and their member States and Austria, Norway, Sweden and Finland declare that the provisions of article 7 are subject to the conventional rules of international law on jurisdiction over submarine cables and pipelines or, where there are no such rules, to general international law.

They further declare that article 7 is not intended to affect the interpretation of existing international law on jurisdiction over submarine cables and pipelines, and cannot be considered as doing so.

4 - With respect to article 10. - Canada and the United States each affirm that they will apply the provisions of article 10 in accordance with the following considerations:

For the purposes of assessing the treatment which must be accorded to investors of other Contracting Parties and their investments, the circumstances will need to be considered on a case-by-case basis. A comparison between the treatment accorded to investors of one Contracting Party, or the investments or investors of one Contracting Party, and the investments or investors of another Contracting Party, is only valid if it is made between investors and investments in similar circumstances. In determining whether differential treatment of investors or investments is consistent with article 10, two basic factors must be taken into account.

The first factor is the policy objectives of Contracting Parties in various fields insofar as they are consistent with the principles of non-discrimination set out in article 10. Legitimate policy objectives may justify differential treatment of foreign investors or their investments in order to reflect a dissimilarity of relevant circumstances between those investors and investments and their domestic counterparts. For example, the objective of ensuring the integrity of a country's financial system would justify reasonable prudential measures with respect to foreign investors or investments, where such measures would be unnecessary to ensure the attainment of the same objectives insofar as domestic investors or investments are concerned. Those foreign investors or their investments would thus not be «in similar circumstances» to domestic investors or their investments. Thus, even if such a measure accorded differential treatment, it would not be contrary to article 10.

The second factor is the extent to which the measure is motivated by the fact that the relevant investor or investment is subject to foreign ownership or under foreign control. A measure aimed specifically at investors because they are foreign, without sufficient countervailing policy reasons consistent with the preceding paragraph, would be contrary to the principles of article 10. The foreign investor or investment would be «in similar circumstances» to domestic investors and their investments, and the measure would be contrary to article 10.

5 - With respect to article 25. - The European Communities and their member States recall that, in accordance with article 58 of the Treaty establishing the European Community:

The European Communities and their member States further recall that Community law provides for the possibility to extend the treatment described above to branches and agencies of companies or firms not established in one of the member States; and that, the application of article 25 of the Energy Charter Treaty will allow only those derogations necessary to safeguard the preferential treatment resulting from the wider process of economic integration resulting from the Treaties establishing the European Communities.

6 - With respect to article 40. - Denmark recalls that the European Energy Charter does not apply to Greenland and the Faroe Islands until notice to this effect has been received from the local governments of Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

In this respect Denmark affirms that article 40 of the Treaty applies to Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

7 - With respect to annex G, 4):

Until entry into force of this specific agreement, the provisions of the Agreement on Trade and Economic and Commercial Cooperation between the European Economic Community, the European Atomic Energy Community and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed at Brussels on 18 December 1989 shall exclusively continue to apply for trade in nuclear materials between them;

Until entry into force of this specific agreement, the provisions of the Agreement on Trade and Economic and Commercial Cooperation between the European Economic Community, the European Atomic Energy Community and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed at Brussels on 18 December 1989 shall exclusively continue to apply for trade in nuclear materials between them;

Until entry into force of this specific agreement, the provisions of the Agreement on Trade and Economic and Commercial Cooperation between the European Economic Community, the European Atomic Energy Community and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed at Brussels on 18 December 1989 shall exclusively continue to apply for trade in nuclear materials between them;

Until entry into force of this specific agreement, the provisions of the Agreement on Trade and Economic and Commercial Cooperation between the European Economic Community, the European Atomic Energy Community and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed at Brussels on 18 December 1989 shall exclusively continue to apply for trade in nuclear materials between them;

Until entry into force of this specific agreement, the provisions of the Agreement on Trade and Economic and Commercial Cooperation between the European Economic Community, the European Atomic Energy Community and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed at Brussels on 18 December 1989 shall exclusively continue to apply for trade in nuclear materials between them.

The Energy Charter Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Environmental Aspects

VII - The European Energy Charter Conference has adopted the text of the Energy Charter Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Environmental Aspects which is set out in annex 3.

The European Energy Charter

VIII - The provisional Charter Conference and the Charter Conference provided for in the Treaty shall henceforth be responsible for making decisions on requests to sign the Concluding Document of the Hague Conference on the European Energy Charter and the European Energy Charter adopted thereby.

Documentation

IX - The records of negotiations of the European Energy Charter Conference will be deposited with the Secretariat.

Done at Lisbon on the seventeenth day of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four.

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ANEXO N.º 1 — TRATADO DA CARTA DA ENERGIA

Preâmbulo

As Partes Contratantes no presente Tratado:

Tendo em conta a Carta de Paris para Uma Nova Europa, assinada a 21 de Novembro de 1990;

Tendo em conta a Carta Europeia da Energia, adoptada no Documento Final da Conferência da Haia sobre a Carta Europeia da Energia, assinada na Haia a 17 de Dezembro de 1991;

Recordando que todos os signatários do Documento Final da Conferência da Haia se comprometeram a prosseguir os objectivos e princípios da Carta Europeia da Energia e a pôr em prática e alargar a sua cooperação tão depressa quanto possível, negociando de boa fé um Tratado da Carta da Energia e protocolos, e desejando assentar os compromissos contidos nessa Carta numa base jurídica internacional segura e vinculativa;

Desejando também estabelecer o enquadramento estrutural necessário para a realização dos princípios enunciados na Carta Europeia da Energia;

Querendo pôr em execução o conceito básico subjacente à Carta Europeia da Energia, que é o de catalisar o crescimento económico através de medidas de liberalização do investimento e das trocas comerciais no domínio da energia;

Reiterando que as Partes Contratantes atribuem a maior importância à execução efectiva do tratamento nacional integral e do tratamento de nação mais favorecida e que estes compromissos serão aplicados à realização de investimentos nos termos de um tratado complementar;

Tendo em conta o objectivo de liberalização progressiva do comércio internacional e o princípio de abolição da discriminação no comércio internacional, conforme enunciado no Acordo Geral sobre Pautas Aduaneiras e Comércio e nos instrumentos conexos e conforme disposto no presente Tratado;

Determinados a eliminar progressivamente as barreiras técnicas, administrativas e outras ao comércio de materiais e produtos energéticos e de equipamento, tecnologias e serviços conexos;

Prevendo a futura adesão ao Acordo Geral sobre Pautas Aduaneiras e Comércio daquelas Partes Contratantes que nele ainda não participam e empenhadas em estabelecer regimes comerciais provisórios que ajudem essas Partes Contratantes e não obstem à sua preparação para tal adesão;

Cientes dos direitos e obrigações de certas Partes Contratantes, que também são partes no Acordo Geral sobre Pautas Aduaneiras e Comércio e nos seus instrumentos conexos;

Tendo em conta as regras de concorrência relativas a fusões, monopólios, práticas anticoncorrenciais e abusos de posição dominante;

Tendo em conta também o Tratado sobre a não Proliferação de Armas Nucleares, as orientações gerais para os fornecedores de energia nuclear e outras obrigações ou compromissos internacionais de não proliferação nuclear;

Reconhecendo a necessidade de uma mais eficiente exploração, produção, conversão, armazenamento, transporte, distribuição e uso da energia;

Recordando a Convenção Quadro das Nações Unidas sobre Alterações Climáticas, a Convenção sobre a Poluição Atmosférica Transfronteiriça a Grande Distância e seus protocolos, bem como outros acordos internacionais sobre o ambiente com aspectos relacionados com o domínio energético; e

Reconhecendo a necessidade cada vez mais urgente de medidas para protecção do ambiente, incluindo a desactivação de instalações energéticas e de eliminação de resíduos, e de objectivos e critérios internacionalmente acordados para esse efeito:

acordaram no seguinte:

PARTE I — Definições e objectivo

Artigo 1.º — Definições

Na acepção do presente Tratado, entende-se por:

1) «Carta», a Carta Europeia da Energia, adoptada no Documento Final da Conferência da Haia sobre a Carta Europeia da Energia, assinada na Haia a 17 de Dezembro de 1991; a assinatura do Documento Final é tida como assinatura da Carta;

2) «Parte Contratante», um Estado ou organização regional de integração económica que consentiu em ficar vinculada pelo presente Tratado e relativamente à qual o Tratado se encontra em vigor;

3) «Organização regional de integração económica», uma organização constituída por Estados, para a qual transferiram competências em determinados domínios, alguns deles regidos pelo presente Tratado, incluindo o poder de tomar decisões que os vinculem relativamente a esses domínios;

4) «Materiais e produtos energéticos», com base no Sistema Harmonizado do Conselho de Cooperação Aduaneira e da Nomenclatura Combinada das Comunidades Europeias, os itens enumerados no anexo EM;

5) «Actividade económica no sector da energia», uma actividade económica relativa à exploração, extracção, refinação, produção, armazenamento, transporte terrestre, transmissão, distribuição, comércio, comercialização ou venda de materiais e produtos energéticos, com excepção dos incluídos no anexo NI, ou relativa à distribuição de calor a múltiplos locais;

6) «Investimento», todo o tipo de bens, pertencentes ou controlados, directa ou indirectamente, por um investidor, incluindo:

Nenhuma alteração na forma como os bens estão investidos afecta o seu carácter de investimento, incluindo-se no termo «investimento» todos investimentos quer já efectuados quer realizado posteriormente à última das datas de entrada e vigor do presente Tratado em relação à Par Contratante do investidor que realiza o investimento e em relação à Parte Contratante em cujo território se realiza o investimento (a seguir denominada «data efectiva»), desde que o presente Tratado se aplique apenas a matérias que afectem esses investimento após a data efectiva.

Por «investimento» entende-se qualquer investimento associado a uma actividade económico no sector da energia e a investimentos ou tipos investimento designados por uma Parte Contrata no seu território como «projectos de eficiência âmbito da Carta» e como tal notificados Secretariado;

7) «Investidor»:

ii) Uma sociedade ou outra organização constituída nos termos da legislação aplicável nessa Parte Contratante;

8) «Realizar investimentos» ou «realização de investimentos», o estabelecimento de novos investimentos, através da aquisição do todo ou parte de investimentos existentes ou da transferência para diferentes sectores de investimentos;

9) «Rendimentos», os montantes resultantes ou relacionados com um investimento, independentemente da forma como são pagos, incluindo lucros, dividendos, juros, mais-valias, royalties, gestão, ajuda técnica ou outras remunerações e pagamentos em espécie;

10) «Território», relativamente a um Estado que é Parte Contratante:

Relativamente a uma organização regional de integração económica que seja Parte Contratante, entende-se por território os territórios dos Estados membros dessa organização, nos termos das disposições do acordo que institui essa organização;

11):

Uma parte no Acordo que institui a Organização Mundial do Comércio é considerada parte no GATT 1994;

ii) O Acordo que institui a Organização Mundial do Comércio, incluindo o seu anexo 1 (excepto o GATT 1994), os seus anexos 2, 3 e 4 e as decisões, declarações e compromissos com ele relacionados, conforme subsequentemente rectificados, alterados ou modificados;

12) «Propriedade intelectual», os direitos de autor e direitos conexos, marcas de comércio, indicações geográficas, desenhos industriais, patentes, topografias de circuitos integrados e protecção de informações confidenciais;

13):

14) «Moeda livremente convertível», uma moeda largamente negociada em mercados internacionais de divisas e largamente usada em transacções internacionais.

Artigo 2.º — Objectivo do Tratado

O presente Tratado institui um enquadramento jurídico para a promoção da cooperação a longo prazo no domínio energético, com base em complementaridades e benefícios mútuos, em conformidade com os objectivos e princípios da Carta.

PARTE II — Comércio

Artigo 3.º — Mercados internacionais

As Partes Contratantes envidarão esforços no sentido de promover o acesso aos mercados internacionais em termos comerciais e de desenvolver, na generalidade, um mercado livre e concorrencial para os materiais e produtos energéticos.

Artigo 4.º — Não derrogação do GATT e instrumentos conexos

Nenhuma disposição do presente Tratado derroga, em relação às Partes Contratantes que são partes no GATT, às disposições do GATT e instrumentos conexos aplicados entre essas Partes Contratantes.

Artigo 5.º — Medidas de investimento relacionadas com o comércio

1 - Sem prejuízo dos direitos e obrigações das Partes Contratantes nos termos do GATT e instrumentos conexos e do artigo 29.º, as Partes Contratantes não aplicarão quaisquer medidas de investimento relacionadas com o comércio incompatíveis com as disposições dos artigos III ou XI do GATT.

2 - Essas medidas incluem qualquer medida de investimento que seja obrigatória ou susceptível de aplicação nos termos da legislação nacional ou de qualquer decisão administrativa, ou cujo cumprimento seja necessário para obtenção de uma vantagem e que imponha:

ou que restrinja:

3 - Nenhuma disposição do n.º 1 será interpretada no sentido de impedir uma Parte Contratante de aplicar as medidas de investimento relacionadas com o comércio descritas nas alíneas a) e c) do n.º 2, enquanto condição de elegibilidade para promoção da exportação, auxílio externo, contratos públicos ou regimes de pautas preferenciais ou de contingentes.

4 - Não obstante o n.º 1, uma Parte Contratante poderá manter temporariamente medidas de investimento relacionadas com o comércio em vigor há mais de 180 dias antes da sua assinatura do presente Tratado sob reserva das disposições relativas à notificação e ao termo do período de transição estabelecidas no anexo TRM.

Artigo 6.º — Concorrência

1 - Cada Parte Contratante envidará esforços para diminuir as distorções de mercado e os entraves à concorrência na actividade económica no sector da energia.

2 - Cada Parte Contratante assegurará, nos limites da sua competência, a existência e a aplicação da legislação necessária e adequada para intervenção em casos de comportamentos anticoncorrenciais unilaterais e concertados na actividade económica no sector da energia.

3 - As Partes Contratantes com experiência na aplicação de regras de concorrência procurarão prestar, a outras Partes Contratantes, a pedido destas e tendo em conta os recursos disponíveis, assistência técnica para o desenvolvimento e aplicação de regras de concorrência.

4 - As Partes Contratantes podem cooperar na aplicação das suas regras de concorrência através de consultas e de troca de informações.

5 - Se uma Parte Contratante considerar que um comportamento anticoncorrencial concreto verificado no território de outra Parte Contratante está a afectar negativamente um interesse importante relevante para os objectivos identificados no presente artigo, a primeira Parte Contratante pode notificar a outra Parte Contratante e solicitar que as suas autoridades em matéria de concorrência tomem medidas de aplicação adequadas. A Parte Contratante requerente incluirá nessa notificação informações suficientes que permitam à Parte Contratante requerida identificar o comportamento anticoncorrencial objecto da notificação, bem como a oferta de prestação de informações complementares e de cooperação que a Parte Contratante requerente tenha capacidade para fornecer. A Parte Contratante requerida ou, conforme o caso, as autoridades competentes em matéria de concorrência podem consultar as autoridades em matéria de concorrência da Parte Contratante requerente e terão em devida consideração o pedido da Parte Contratante requerente ao decidir se devem ou não tomar medidas de aplicação relativamente ao alegado comportamento anticoncorrencial identificado na notificação. A Parte Contratante requerida deve informar a Parte Contratante requerente da sua decisão ou da decisão das autoridades competentes em matéria de concorrência e pode, se o desejar, informar a Parte Contratante requerente dos fundamentos da decisão. Se adoptar medidas de aplicação, a Parte Contratante requerida informará a Parte Contratante requerente do resultado final e, na medida do possível, de qualquer desenvolvimento intercalar significativo.

6 - Nenhuma disposição do presente artigo impõe a uma Parte Contratante comunicar informações ao arrepio da sua legislação relativamente a divulgação de informações, confidencialidade ou segredo comercial.

7 - Os procedimentos previstos no n.º 5 e no n.º 1 do artigo 27.º constituirão os únicos meios, no âmbito do presente Tratado, de resolução de quaisquer diferendos que possam surgir relativamente à execução ou interpretação do presente artigo.

Artigo 7.º — Trânsito

1 - Cada Parte Contratante tomará as medidas necessárias para facilitar o trânsito de materiais e produtos energéticos compatíveis com o princípio de livre circulação, independentemente da origem, destino ou propriedade desses materiais e produtos energéticos e sem discriminar quanto a fixação de preços com base nestes critérios, e sem imposição de quaisquer prazos, restrições ou encargos desproporcionados.

2 - As Partes Contratantes encorajarão as entidades competentes a cooperar:

3 - Cada Parte Contratante compromete-se a que as disposições relativas ao transporte de materiais e produtos energéticos e ao uso de infra-estruturas de transporte de energia concederão aos materiais e produtos energéticos em trânsito um tratamento não menos favorável do que o tratamento concedido nas disposições relativas a esses materiais e produtos originários ou com destino ao seu próprio território, excepto quando disposto em contrário num acordo internacional em vigor.

4 - Caso o trânsito de materiais e produtos energéticos não possa ser efectuado em termos comerciais através de infra-estruturas de transporte de energia, as Partes Contratantes não porão obstáculos à criação de uma nova capacidade, excepto quando disposto em contrário em legislação aplicável compatível com o n.º 1.

5 - Uma Parte Contratante, através de cujo território transitem materiais e produtos energéticos, não é obrigada a:

desde que demonstre às outras Partes Contratantes interessadas que isso iria pôr em perigo a segurança ou eficiência dos seus sistemas de energia, incluindo a segurança do fornecimento.

Sob reserva dos n.os 6 e 7, as Partes Contratantes assegurarão os fluxos estabelecidos de materiais ou produtos energéticos de, para ou entre os territórios de outras Partes Contratantes.

6 - Uma Parte Contratante, através de cujo território transitem materiais e produtos energéticos, não deve, em caso de diferendo sobre qualquer matéria decorrente desse trânsito, interromper ou reduzir, permitir que qualquer entidade sujeita ao seu controlo interrompa ou reduza, ou exigir que qualquer entidade sob a sua jurisdição interrompa ou reduza o fluxo existente de materiais e produtos energéticos antes de concluídos os procedimentos de resolução de diferendos previstos no n.º 7, excepto quando especificamente disposto num contrato ou noutro acordo que regulamente esse trânsito, ou permitido em conformidade com a decisão do conciliador.

7 - As disposições seguintes aplicar-se-ão aos diferendos descritos no n.º 6 exclusivamente após o esgotamento de todas as formas relevantes de resolução de diferendos, de natureza contratual ou outra, previamente acordadas entre as Partes Contratantes que sejam partes no diferendo ou entre qualquer entidade referida no n.º 6 e uma entidade de outra Parte Contratante que seja parte no diferendo:

No prazo de 30 dias a contar da recepção dessa notificação, o Secretário-Geral, em consulta com as partes no diferendo e as outras Partes Contratantes interessadas, deve nomear um conciliador. O conciliador deve ter experiência quanto às questões objecto no diferendo e não deve ser nacional, cidadão ou residente com carácter permanente de qualquer das partes no diferendo ou de qualquer das outras Partes Contratantes interessadas;

O conciliador procurará obter o acordo das partes no diferendo com vista à sua resolução ou quanto a um procedimento para obtenção dessa resolução.

Se, no prazo de 90 dias a contar da sua nomeação, não tiver conseguido obter esse acordo, recomendará uma resolução do diferendo ou um procedimento para obter essa resolução e decidirá sobre os direitos provisórios e outros termos e condições a observar para o trânsito a partir de uma data por ele especificada e até que o diferendo seja resolvido;

8 - Nenhuma disposição do presente artigo derroga os direitos e obrigações de uma Parte Contratante ao abrigo do direito internacional, incluindo o direito internacional consuetudinário, acordos bilaterais ou multilaterais existentes, incluindo regulamentos relativos a condutas e cabos submarinos.

9 - O presente artigo não será interpretado no sentido de obrigar qualquer Parte Contratante que não tenha um determinado tipo de infra-estruturas de transporte de energia usadas para trânsito a tomar qualquer medida ao abrigo do presente artigo relativamente a esse tipo de infra-estruturas de transporte de energia. No entanto, essa Parte Contratante está obrigada ao cumprimento do n.º 4.

10 - Para efeitos do presente artigo, entende-se por:

ii) O transporte através do território de uma Parte Contratante de materiais e produtos energéticos originários do território de outra Parte Contratante e destinados ao território desta outra Parte Contratante, excepto quando as duas Partes Contratantes interessadas decidam em contrário e registem a sua decisão através de uma declaração conjunta no anexo N. As duas Partes Contratantes podem eliminar o seu nome da lista do anexo N entregando uma notificação escrita conjunta das suas intenções ao Secretariado, que transmitirá essa notificação a todas as outras Partes Contratantes. Essa eliminação, entrará em vigor quatro semanas após a referida notificação;

Artigo 8.º — Transferência de tecnologia

1 - As Partes Contratantes acordam em promover o acesso à tecnologia energética e a respectiva transferência numa base comercial e não discriminatória, a fim de apoiar o comércio efectivo de materiais e produtos energéticos e o investimento nesse domínio e de aplicar os objectivos da Carta, sob reserva da sua legislação e regulamentos e da protecção dos direitos de propriedade intelectual.

2 - Nesses termos e na medida necessária para dar cumprimento ao n.º 1, as Partes Contratantes eliminarão os obstáculos existentes e não criarão novos obstáculos à transferência de tecnologia no domínio dos materiais e produtos energéticos e dos equipamentos e serviços relacionados, sem prejuízo de obrigações internacionais de não proliferação nuclear e outras.

Artigo 9.º — Acesso ao capital

1 - As Partes Contratantes reconhecem a importância de mercados financeiros livres a fim de incentivar o fluxo de capitais para o financiamento das trocas comerciais de materiais e produtos energéticos e para a realização e apoio de investimentos na actividade económica no sector da energia nos territórios de outras Partes Contratantes, particularmente daquelas com economias em transição. Em conformidade, cada Parte Contratante promoverá a criação de condições de acesso aos seus mercados financeiros por parte de sociedades e nacionais de outras Partes Contratantes, com vista ao financiamento de trocas comerciais de materiais e produtos energéticos e ao investimento na actividade económica no sector da energia nos territórios dessas outras Partes Contratantes, numa base não menos favorável do que a concedida em circunstâncias semelhantes às suas próprias sociedades e nacionais ou a sociedades e nacionais de qualquer outra Parte Contratante ou Estado terceiro, consoante a que for mais favorável.

2 - Uma Parte Contratante pode adoptar e manter programas que proporcionem acesso a empréstimos públicos, subvenções, garantias ou seguros para facilitar o comércio ou investimento no estrangeiro. Essas facilidades de crédito deverão ser compatíveis com os objectivos, limitações e critérios desses programas (incluindo quaisquer objectivos, limitações ou critérios relacionados com o local de estabelecimento de um candidato a essa facilidade de crédito ou com o local de entrega de mercadorias ou de prestação de serviços com o apoio dessa facilidade de crédito) para investimentos na actividade económica no sector de energia de outras Partes Contratantes ou para financiamento de trocas comerciais de materiais e produtos energéticos com outras Partes Contratantes.

3 - Ao desenvolver programas relativos à actividade económica no sector da energia para melhorar a estabilidade económica e o clima de investimentos das Partes Contratantes, as Partes Contratantes procurarão, conforme adequado, incentivar as operações e tirar partido da experiência técnica de instituições financeiras internacionais relevantes.

4 - Nenhuma disposição do presente artigo impedirá:

ii) Para garantir a integridade e a estabilidade do seu sistema financeiro e mercados financeiros.

PARTE III — Promoção e protecção de investimentos

Artigo 10.º — Promoção, protecção e tratamento de investimentos

1 - Em conformidade com as disposições do presente Tratado, cada Parte Contratante incentivará e criará condições estáveis, equitativas, favoráveis e transparentes para que investidores de outras Partes Contratantes realizem investimentos no seu território. Essas condições incluirão o compromisso de concessão de um tratamento justo e equitativo, em todos os momentos, a investimentos de investidores de outras Partes Contratantes. Esses investimentos devem também gozar da mais constante protecção e segurança e nenhuma Parte Contratante deve, de forma alguma, prejudicar, através de medidas desproporcionadas ou discriminatórias, a sua gestão, manutenção, uso, fruição ou alienação. Esses investimentos não devem, em caso algum, ser tratados de forma menos favorável que o exigido pelo direito internacional, incluindo obrigações decorrentes de tratados. Cada Parte Contratante deve cumprir quaisquer obrigações contraídas em relação a um investidor ou a um investimento de um investidor de outra Parte Contratante.

2 - Cada Parte Contratante envidará esforços para conceder aos investidores de outras Partes Contratantes, no que diz respeito à realização de investimentos no seu território, o tratamento descrito no n.º 3.

3 - Para efeitos do presente artigo, entende-se por «tratamento» qualquer tratamento concedido por uma Parte Contratante que não seja menos favorável que o concedido aos seus próprios investidores ou a investidores de qualquer outra Parte Contratante ou de qualquer Estado terceiro, consoante o que for mais favorável.

4 - Um tratado suplementar obrigará, sob reserva das condições aí estabelecidas, ser cada uma das Partes a conceder aos investidores de outras Partes, relativamente à realização de investimentos no seu território, o tratamento descrito no n.º 3. Esse tratado estará aberto à assinatura dos Estados e organizações regionais de integração económica que tenham assinado o presente Tratado ou a ele tenham aderido. As negociações deste tratado suplementar deverão iniciar-se o mais tardar a 1 de Janeiro de 1995, com vista à sua conclusão em 1 de Janeiro de 1998.

5 - Cada Parte Contratante envidará esforços, relativamente à realização de investimentos no seu território, para:

6:

7 - Cada Parte Contratante concederá aos investimentos no seu território realizados por investidores de outras Partes Contratantes, e às actividades com eles relacionadas, incluindo gestão, manutenção, uso, fruição ou alienação, um tratamento não menos favorável que o concedido aos investimentos dos seus próprios investidores ou de investidores de qualquer outra Parte Contratante ou de qualquer Estado terceiro, e às actividades com eles relacionadas, incluindo gestão, manutenção, uso, fruição ou alienação, consoante o que for mais favorável.

8 - As normas de aplicação do n.º 7, relativamente a programas ao abrigo dos quais uma Parte Contratante atribui subvenções ou outro apoio financeiro ou celebra contratos para investigação e desenvolvimento de tecnologia enérgica, serão reservadas para o tratado suplementar descrito no n.º 4. Cada Parte Contratante manterá a Conferência da Carta informada, através do Secretariado, sobre as normas que aplica aos programas descritos no presente número.

9 - Cada Estado ou organização regional de integração económica que assine ou adira ao presente Tratado submeterá, na data em que assinar o Tratado ou depositar o seu instrumento de adesão, ao Secretariado um relatório com uma súmula de toda a legislação, regulamentação ou outras medidas pertinentes em relação:

As Partes Contratantes actualizarão os respectivos relatórios, apresentando prontamente as alterações ao Secretariado. A Conferência da Carta examinará estes relatórios periodicamente.

Relativamente à alínea a), o relatório pode designar partes do sector da energia nas quais uma Parte Contratante concede a investidores de outras Partes Contratantes o tratamento descrito no n.º 3.

Relativamente à alínea b), o exame feito pela Conferência da Carta pode considerar os efeitos que esses programas têm na concorrência e nos investimentos.