Electricité de France (EDF) International S.A. v. Hungary, UNCITRAL

  • >Claimant : Electricité de France (EDF) International S.A.
  • >Nationality : France
  • >Respondent : Hungary
  • >Procedural rules applied : UNCITRAL (PCA)
  • >Chair : Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel
  • >Arbitrator appointed by Claimant : Pierre-Marie Dupuy
  • >Arbitrator appointed by Respondent : Albert Jan van den Berg
  • >Invoked instruments : ECT
  • >Breaches alleged :  
  • >Breaches found :(10.1) Fair and equitable treatment
  • >Case status : Award rendered
  • >Year of the award or agreement : 2014
  • >Follow-on proceedings : Award upheld by national court
  • >Year of registration : 2009

  • >Subject matter of the dispute: Government's termination of long-term power purchase agreements concluded between EDF’s local subsidiary and the State-owned energy company MVM, following a ruling by the European Commission declaring that the agreements were illegal under EU State aid rules and should be terminated 
  • >Amount claimed: estim. EUR 300 million
  • >Amount awarded: EUR 107 million
  • >Costs of arbitration: N/A
  • >Award legal costs: N/A
  • >Award costs of arbitration: N/A 


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