State Enterprises. 1. The Parties recognize that state enterprises should not operate in a manner that creates obstacles to trade and investment. In that light, each Party shall ensure that any state enterprise that it establishes or maintains:
(a) acts in a manner that is not inconsistent with the Party’s obligations under this Agreement wherever such enterprise exercises any regulatory, administrative, or other governmental authority that the Party has delegated to it, such as the power to expropriate, grant licenses, approve commercial transactions, or impose quotas, fees, or other charges; and
(b) accords non-discriminatory treatment in the sale of its goods or services to covered investments.
2. Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prevent a Party from establishing or maintaining a state enterprise.
State Enterprises. 1. Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prevent a Party from establishing or maintaining a state enterprise, provided that this is done in accordance with the Party’s domestic law.
2. Each Party shall ensure that any state enterprise that it establishes or maintains acts in a manner that is not inconsistent with the Party’s obligations under this Agreement wherever such enterprise exercises any regulatory, administrative or other governmental authority that the Party has delegated to it, such as the power to expropriate, grant licences, approve commercial transactions, or impose quotas, fees or other charges.
3. Each Party shall ensure that any state enterprise that it establishes or maintains accords non-discriminatory treatment in the sale of its goods or services.
4. Each Party shall take reasonable measures to ensure it does not provide any competitive advantage to any government-owned business simply because it is government owned. This Article applies to the business activities of government-owned businesses and not to their non-business, non-commercial activities.
State Enterprises. 1. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent a Party from maintaining or establishing a state enterprise.
State Enterprises. 1. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent a Party from maintaining or establishing a state enterprise.
2. Each Party shall ensure, through regulatory control, administrative supervision or the application of other measures, that any state enterprise that it maintains or establishes acts in a manner that is not inconsistent with the Party's obligations wherever such enterprise exercises any regulatory, administrative or other governmental authority that the Party has delegated to it, such as the power to expropriate, grant licenses, approve commercial transactions or impose quotas, fees or other charges.
3. Each Party shall ensure that any state enterprise that it maintains or establishes accords non-discriminatory treatment in the sale of its goods.
State Enterprises. Each Party shall ensure that state enterprises are subject to their respective competition laws and do not adopt or maintain any anti-competitive practices that affect trade between the Parties, insofar as the application of this provision does not obstruct the performance, in law or in fact, of the particular tasks assigned to them.
State Enterprises. 1. This Agreement is not to be construed to prevent a Party from maintaining or establishing a state enterprise. 2 For greater certainty, terms of designation may be amended. 3 For greater certainty, this provision applies to the sale of the designated monopoly good or service in the case of a designated monopoly supplier and to the purchase of the designated monopoly good or service in the case of a designated monopoly buyer.
State Enterprises. Each Party shall ensure, through regulatory control, administrative supervision or the application of other measures, that any state enterprise that it maintains or establishes, whenever such enterprise exercises any regulatory, administrative or other governmental authority that the Party has delegated to it, acts in a manner that is not inconsistent with the Party’s obligations under this Chapter.
State Enterprises. 1. Each Contracting Party shall ensure that any state enterprise that it maintains or establishes acts in a manner that is not inconsistent with the Contracting Party's obligations under this Agreement wherever such enterprise exercises any regulatory, administrative or other governmental authority that the Contracting Party has delegated to it.
2. Each Contracting party shall ensure that any state enterprise that it maintains or establishes accords non-discriminatory treatment in the sale, in the Contracting Party's territory, of its goods or services to investors of another Contracting Party and their investment.
3. Neither investors of another Contracting Party nor their investments may have recourse to investor-state arbitration for any matter arising out of paragraph 2 of this Article.
State Enterprises. 1. Each Party shall ensure that any state enterprise that it establishes or maintains:
(a) acts in a manner that is not inconsistent with the Party's obligations under this Agreement wherever such enterprise exercises any regulatory, administrative, or other governmental authority that the Party has delegated to it, such as the power to expropriate, grant licenses, approve commercial transactions, or impose quotas, fees, or other charges; and
(b) accords non-discriminatory treatment in the sale of its goods or services to covered investments.
2. Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prevent a Party from establishing or maintaining a state enterprise.
State Enterprises. 1. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent a Party from establishing or maintaining a State enterprise.
2. Each Party shall ensure that any state enterprise that it establishes or maintains acts in a manner that is not inconsistent with the Party's obligations under this Agreement wherever such enterprise exercises any regulatory, administrative, or other governmental authority that the Party has delegated to it, such as the power to expropriate, grant licenses, approve commercial transactions, or impose quotas, fees, or other charges.
3. Each Party shall ensure that any state enterprise that it establishes or maintains accords non- discriminatory treatment in the sale of its goods or services to covered investments.
