Neither Contracting Party shall take any measures depriving, directly or indirectly, nationals or persons of the other Contracting Party of their investments or measures having an equivalent effect 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 or contrary to any specific undertaking which the former Contracting Party may have given;
- c)the measures are accompanied by the provision for the payment of just compensation. Such compensation shall represent the genuine value of the investments affected immediately before the date the measures or impending measures became public knowledge and shall, in order to be effective for the claimants, be paid and made transferable, without undue delay, to the country designated by the claimants concerned and in the currency of the country of which the claimants are nationals or persons or in any freely convertible currency accepted by the claimants.