CELIS Institute

Foreign Investment Screening | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Control

The CELIS Institute is an independent non-profit, non-partisan research enterprise dedicated to promoting better regulation of foreign investments in the context of security, public order, and competitiveness. It produces expert analysis and fosters a continuous trusting dialogue between policymakers, the investment community, and academics. The CELIS Institute is the leading forum for studying and debating investment screening policy.

The CELIS Institute was set up in 2020 by Professor Steffen Hindelang and Mr. J. Hillebrand Pohl as a permanent successor to the International Conference on a Common European Law on Investment Screening (CELIS), convened by Professor Hindelang and Dr. Andreas Moberg in 2019. A multi-stakeholder initiative, principally funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, CELIS resulted in the very first, interdisciplinary grounded, comprehensive appraisal of EU foreign investment control, published in the inaugural volume of the Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions in 2021 (Springer). The CELIS Institute is headquartered in Berlin.

The Institute also addresses the political and economic aspects of the legal field. Beyond screening, it covers questions relating to investment protection, security, strategy, regulation and facilitation, including dispute settlement.

Steffen Hindelang | Executive Director and Lena Hornkohl | Deputy Director

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CELIS Annual Call 2023: CELIS Country Reporter

Annual Call for Expression of Interest 2023  CELIS Country Reporters on Foreign Investment Regulation, especially Investment Screening The CELIS Institute announces the opening of a number of positions as CELIS Country Reporter and CELIS Assistant Country Reporter (m/f/d) which will contribute to the Institute’s Knowledge and Research Hub at www.celis.institute. We are particularly interested in applications from the…
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Change in CELIS Leadership

Thank you, Jens Hillebrand Pohl – Welcome, Lena Hornkohl! The CELIS Institute announces changes in its leadership team. Jens Hillebrand Pohl decided to seek new challenges elsewhere and to step down from his post as CELIS Director. He kindly agreed, however, to stay on a bit longer, transiting in an advisory role. The Institute has…
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CELIS NOW KICK-OFF EVENT

The Age of Open Strategic Autonomy

11-13 May 2023, Berlin / Germany

CELIS NOW is the CELIS Institute's most ambitious initiative to promote young talents with a focus on the law and practice of economic warfare.

In response to global power shifts, the European Union has recently added a set of geo-economic instruments, such as the FDI Screening Regulation, the Regulation on Distortive Foreign Subsidies, the new Dual-Use Regulation, and the Anti-Coercion Instrument, to its toolbox for “economic warfare”.

In light with the CELIS Institute’s mission to promote better regulation of foreign investments in the context of security, public order, and competitiveness; and along with its commitment to the promotion of researchers and practitioners at the early stages of their career, the Institute's Deputy Assistant Directors created an early-career scholars’ and practitioners’ network on the law and practice of economic warfare (CELIS NOW) .

CELIS produces, hosts, and points to various original and third-party content relating to the fields of foreign investment and public order and secruity as well as investment protection and facilitation.

PRISM – Politics and Regulation of Investment Screening Mechanisms newsfeed

Newsfeed of the research project PRISM - Politics and Regulation of Investment Screening Mechanisms, Princeton University and Indiana University Hamilton ...

Latest CELIS news relating to the field of foreign investment screening and regulation.

CELIS Update on Investment Screening – April 2023

EU – Commission considers introducing an outbound investment screening mechanism On 30 March 2023, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave a speech in which she announced that the EU is preparing a mechanism for screening outbound investment. The speech was made during her visit to China on 5-6 April and addresses the threats…
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CELIS Update on Investment Screening – March 2023

France – Considerable increase in international investments On 27 February 2023, the French government announced that the number of international investments in France had increased in 2022 compared to 2021: 1,725 investment decisions were recorded in France that year, an increase of 7% compared to 2021. Projects in the energy and recycling sectors have grown…
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CELIS Update on Investment Screening – February 2023

Estonia – Introduction of new FDI-regime On 25 January 2023, the Estonian Parliament has passed the Foreign Investment Reliability Assessment Act which will enter into force on 1 September 2023. The act will introduce the very first Foreign Direct Investment Screening (FDI) regime in Estonia. Under the new law foreign direct and indirect investments from…
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Latest other news relating to the field of foreign investment screening and regulation.

CELIS hosts and organises alone and with partners various events on the fields of foreign investment and public order and secruity. Our flagship event is the CELIS annual conference.

CELIS International Conferences

CELIS NOW KICK-OFF EVENT

The Age of Open Strategic Autonomy | 11-13 May 2023 | Berlin

2022 CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS)

The Emerging Law of Investment Control in Europe:
Screening, Sanctions and Subsidies

01-03 June 2022

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Understanding National Security Concerns in Light of FDI Screening

Conference: Understanding National Security Concerns in Light of FDI Screening Steffen Hindelang for two days devoted to national security considerations and Foreign Direct Investments at the Conference on ‘Understanding National Security Concerns in Light of FDI Screening’, 27 to 28 October 2022 in Rome. Steffen is currently professor of international investment and trade law at…
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Investment Screening in the European Union

ERA Conference: Investment Screening in the European Union Steffen Hindelang and Jens Hillebrand Pohl for two days devoted to the new EU investment screening framework at the Academy of European Law ERA Conference on Investment Screening in the European Union, 12-13 November 2020. Steffen is professor (wsr) at the Department of Law of the Syddansk…
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Video of the Book Launch: A Common European Law on Investment Screening (Springer 2021)

CELIS Book Launch 2021 – Video – With Cecilia Malmström and Sven Simon On 1 July 2021, the CELIS Institute and the YSEC Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions celebrated the official launch of “A Common European Law on Investment Screening (CELIS)” (published by Springer Nature Group) featuring a high-level panel debate with former European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström and Sven Simon,…
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