Fair and Equitable Treatment

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
FET
Pronunciation
/fɛr ənd ˈɛkwɪtəbəl ˈtritmənt/
Category
Community
Related Field
Unions

Examples in Context

  1. Each Party shall accord to investments treatment in accordance with customary international law, including fair and equitable treatment, full protection and security, and non-discrimination.
  2. Fair and equitable treatment is a standard of treatment which widely exists in international investment treaties.
  3. As one of the standards in international investment treaties, Fair and Equitable Treatment(FET) Standards for the treatment of foreign investment has been widely adopted. But scholars of different countries hold different viewpoints on the definition of the standards.
  4. As the expression of fair and equitable treatment provisions in most international investment treaties is simple, and there is lack of uniform application rules, proper interpretation mechanism, capital-importing countries, capital-exporting country and the investor have made different interpretations.
  5. And then, summarizes the content of fair and equitable treatment standard from obligations of the host country and the investors respectively by combing the existing international arbitration cases.

Other meanings of FET