Common use of National and Most-favoured-nation Treatment Clause in Contracts

National and Most-favoured-nation Treatment. 1. Each Contracting Party shall in its territory accord to an investor of the other Party and to an investment, treatment not less favourable than the treatment it accords, in like situations to its own investors and their investments with respect to the conduct, operation, management, maintenance, use, enjoyment and sale or disposal of their investments in its territory. 2. Each Contracting Party shall in its territory accord to investors of the other Contracting Party and their investments treatment no less favourable than that it accords, in like situations, to investors of a third country or to their investments with respect to the operation, conduct, management, maintenance, use, enjoyment and sale or disposal of their investments in its territory. 3. For greater certainty, the "treatment" referred to in paragraph 2 does not include procedures for the resolution of investment disputes between investors and states provided for in other international investment treaties and any other agreements. Substantive obligations in other international investment treaties and other trade agreements do not in themselves constitute "treatment", and thus cannot give rise to a breach of this Article, absent measures adopted or maintained by a Party pursuant to those obligations. 4. The National Treatment and Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment provisions of this Agreement shall not apply to advantages accorded by a Contracting Party pursuant to its obligations as a member of a customs, economic, or monetary union, a common market or a free trade area.

National and Most-favoured-nation Treatment. 1. Each Contracting Party shall in its territory accord to an investor of the other Party and to an investment, treatment not less favourable than the treatment it accords, in like situations to its own investors and their investments with respect to the conduct, operation, management, maintenance, use, enjoyment and sale or disposal of their investments in its territory. 2. Each Contracting Party shall in its territory accord to investors of the other Contracting Party and their investments treatment no less favourable than that it accords, in like situations, to investors of a third country or to their investments with respect to the operation, conduct, management, maintenance, use, enjoyment and sale or disposal of their investments in its territory. 3. For greater certainty, the "“treatment" ” referred to in paragraph 2 does not include procedures for the resolution of investment disputes between investors and states provided for in other international investment treaties and any other agreements. Substantive obligations in other international investment treaties and other trade agreements do not in themselves constitute "treatment", and thus cannot give rise to a breach of this Article, absent measures adopted or maintained by a Party pursuant to those obligations. 4. The National Treatment and Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment provisions of this Agreement shall not apply to advantages accorded by a Contracting Party pursuant to its obligations as a member of a customs, economic, or monetary union, a common market or a free trade area.