The Codex meetings are heavily influenced by the foods, drinks and formula industries and the chair's bias is to
favour industry positions as they work to avoid any requirement of Code provisions in the standards and any statements that follow - up formulas are not necessary.
the novel situation in which claims can be brought by only one class of parties, and only the other class can be found to have violated the treaty, provides investment treaty arbitrators (including those who are state - appointed) with an incentive to
favour claimants in order to advance the interests of the
industry and their
position within it.