Neither Contracting Party shall take any measure of expropriation, nationalisation or any other measures having the same nature or the same effect against investments of investors of the other Contracting Party unless the following conditions are complied with:
- a)the measures are taken in the public interest and under due process of law;
- b)the measures are not discriminatory;
- c)the measures are taken against prompt, adequate and affective compensation. Such compensation shall represent the fair market value of the investment immediately before the moment the measures or impending measures became public knowledge and shall include interest at a normal banking commercial rate from the date the measures were taken, until the date of payment and shall, in order to be effective for the affected investors, be paid and made transferable, without delay to the country designated by the investors concerned in any freely convertible currency.
