Investment
Investment: a stake in a business, a company or an enterprise. Many definitions exist. The following are some examples. The 1961 OECD Code of Liberalisation of Capital Movements defines direct investment as “investment for the purpose of establishing lasting economic relations with an undertaking such as, in particular, investments which give the possibility of exercising an effective influence on the management thereof by means of (1) creation or extension of a wholly-owned enterprise, subsidiary or branch, acquisition of full ownership of an existing enterprise, (2) participation in a new or existing enterprise, and (3) a loan of five years or longer”. The Energy Charter Treaty, concluded in December 1994, defines investment as every kind of asset, owned or controlled directly or indirectly by an investor. It includes (a) tangible and intangible, and movable and immovable, property, and any property rights such a leases, mortgages, liens and pledges, (b) a company or business enterprise, or shares, stock, or other forms of equity participation in a company or business enterprise, (c) claims to money and claims to performance pursuant to contract having an economic value and associated with an investment, (d) intellectual property,
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