日本国及びセルビア共和国間の投資の促進及び保護に関する協定
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(右条約の英文)
AGREEMENT BETWEEN JAPAN
AND THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
FOR THE PROMOTION
AND PROTECTION OF INVESTMENT
Japan and the Republic of Serbia (hereinafter referred to as "the Contracting
Parties").
Desiring to further promote investment in order to strengthen the economic
relationship between the Contracting Parties;
Intending to further create stable, equitable, favourable and transparent conditions
for greater investment by investors of a Contracting Party in the Area of the other
Contracting Party;
Recognising that these objectives can be achieved without relaxing health, safety
and environmental measures of general application; and
Recognising the importance of the cooperative relationship between labour and
management in promoting investment between the Contracting Parties in line with
internationally accepted labour standards;
Have agreed as follows:
CHAPTERI
INVESTMENT
Article 1
For the purposes of this Agreement:
(a) the term "investment" means every kind of asset owned or controlled.
directly or indirectly, by an investor, including
(1) an enterprise and a branch of an enterprise;
(ii) shares, stocks or other forms of equity participation in an
enterprise;
(iii) bonds, debentures, loans and other forms of debt;
(iv) futures, options and other derivatives;
(v) rights under contracts, including turnkey, construction
management, production or revenue-sharing contracts;
(vi) claims to money and to any performance under contract having a
financial value:
(vii) intellectual property rights, including copyrights and related rights,
patent rights and rights relating to utility models, trademarks,
industrial designs, layout-designs of integrated circuits, new
varieties of plants, trade names, indications of source or
geographical indications and undisclosed information, and
goodwill;
(viii) rights conferred pursuant to laws and regulations or contracts such
as concessions, licences, authorisations and permits, including
those for the exploration and exploitation of natural resources; and
(ix) any other tangible and intangible, movable and immovable
property, and any related property rights, such as leases, mortgages,
liens and pledges;
An investment includes the amounts yielded by an investment, in particular,
profit, interest, capital gains, dividends, royalties and fees. A change in
the form in which assets are invested does not affect their character as an
investment: