Tesis Doctorado
El efecto de un cambio de circunstancias en la fuerza obligatoria del contrato perspectivas en derecho comparado
Autor
Hondius, Ewoud H
Universiteit Utrecht
Institución
Resumen
In 1995 Chile and Argentina signed an international economic agreement (Protocolo de
Integración Gasífera entre Chile y Argentina, 1995), by which the trade in Argentinian
gas to Chile was liberalized. Under this agreement, Argentina guaranteed the amount
of gas needed to supply the necessities of the Chilean electricity-generation companies.
Besides, the principie of 'non-discrimination' was established in the sense that Argentina
was bound to meet Chilean requirements and its own domestic demand on an equal
basis. In 2004, because of political and domes tic economic circumstances, this agreement
was not complied with by Argentina and the supply of natural gas to Chile was severely
reduced. In 2005 the reduction reached a peak of 80%. As a consequence, a large number
of electricity generation companies had to rely on other much more expensive sources
(such as coa!, fue! oil or diese!, the international price of which had increased at the same
time as the gas restrictions) to produce electricity with the subsequent severe increase in
generation costs.