Common use of Obligations of Former Members Clause in Contracts

Obligations of Former Members. 1. All former members shall avoid actions that may create the appearance that they were biased in carrying out their duties or derived advantage from the decisions or awards of the Tribunal or the Appeal Tribunal. 2. Without prejudice to paragraph 5 of Article 3.38 (Tribunal) and paragraph 9 of Article 3.39 (Appeal Tribunal), members shall undertake that after the end of their term, they shall not become involved in: (a) investment disputes which were pending before the Tribunal or the Appeal Tribunal before the end of their term; (b) investment disputes with which they dealt with as members of the Tribunal or the Appeal Tribunal and other disputes that have matters of fact in common with such disputes or arise out of the same events and circumstances as such disputes.