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It’s a well-established fact : investment screening mechanisms have existed for a long time. The introduction of such rules, which allow governments to scrutinise individual investment proposals for their potential impact on essential security interests, can be traced back to the 1960s in some countries. Nevertheless, many countries were historically relying on single-sector authorisation requirements or similar mechanisms at most. Therefore, in practice, foreign direct investment (’FDI’) screening mechanisms had rather limited implications on transactional practice areas and only concerned investments in the defense sector.