These lead to arbitration claims, and much to the surprise of, for example, a municipality, what they thought they had agreed about dispute settlement in the privatization contract—the privatization contract might refer disput
es, for example, to domestic courts—it regularly has not provided any kind of block on the treaty arbitrators' inserting their role and, for example, awarding public money to the private operator, including for revenues that the operator would have earned going forward had the problems with the privatization cont
...[+++]ract not taken place.
Ces différends donnent lieu à des demandes d'arbitrage et, souvent, à la grande surprise de la partie plaignante — une municipalité, par exemple —, celle-ci se trompe au sujet de ce dont elle pensait avoir convenu au chapitre des règlements des différends en signant le contrat de privatisation. Par exemple, le contrat peut prévoir le renvoi des différends aux tribunaux nationaux.