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Land Reform in Scotland and the
Multilateral Agreement on Investment
WWF Scotland Briefing Paper, September 1998
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In this 1998 briefing paper, WWF Scotland outlines both the legal and other
policy impacts that the now suspended Multilateral Agreement on Investment
(MAI) treaty would have had on the Scottish Parliament and its emerging land
reform agenda.
The MAI was conceived by a group of leading members of the 30 democratic
market economy states who operate together as the OECD (Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development).
Interested policy observers will find it rather ironic that
Brian Wilson MP, a leading advocate of land reform
in Scotland, was during part of the MAI negotiation period a junior Minister
in the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The DTI was and remains an
enthusiastic advocate and influential promoter of corporate globalisation,
foreign direct investment and instruments such as the MAI.
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