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.