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UK ’Leave’ vote deflates hopes for U.S.-EU trade deal | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-ttip-idUSKCN0ZA2V0

Britain’s looming exit from the European Union is another huge setback for negotiations on a massive U.S.-EU free trade deal that were already stalled by deeply entrenched differences and growing anti-trade sentiment on both sides of the Atlantic.

The historic divorce launched by Thursday’s vote will almost certainly further delay substantial progress in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks as the remaining 27 EU states sort out their own new relationship with Britain, trade experts said on Friday.

With French and German officials increasingly voicing skepticism about TTIP’s chances for success, the United Kingdom’s departure from the deal could sink hopes of a deal before President Barack Obama leaves office in January.

5 Short Films About the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/5-short-films-about-the-transpacific-partnership-tpp

As these short films show, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and its European cousin the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTiP) give unprecedented power to corporations...

The revolving door : greasing the wheels of the TTIP lobby | Corporate Europe Observatory
►http://corporateeurope.org/revolving-doors/2015/07/revolving-door-greasing-wheels-ttip-lobby

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The prospective EU-US trade deal TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) could be the world’s biggest such treaty. While there are disagreements and divergences, in many areas of the negotiations the European Commission is singing from the corporate hymn-sheet. The revolving door between the public and private sectors is helping to grease the wheels of the TTIP corporate lobby. Some of the EU’s most senior decision-makers and officials, alongside those from the member state levels, spin through the revolving door into corporate advisor roles; others go in the other direction, from corporate jobs into the public sector. These revolving door cases cover some of the biggest EU corporate lobby sectors, including telecoms and IT issues; food and agriculture; finance; investor-state dispute settlement; pharmaceuticals; regulatory cooperation; and others. This phenomenon creates great potential for conflicts of interest, and demonstrates the synergies between business interests and the European Commission, the UK government, and others when it comes to TTIP and trade negotiations.

TPP, TTIP, TiSA, ISDS - Acronyms to End Democracy
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/tpp-ttip-tisa-isds-acronyms-to-end-democracy

The TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership), TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), and TISA (Trade in Services Agreement) are currently being negotiated behind closed doors all over the...

The revolving door: greasing the wheels of the #ttip #lobby
►http://corporateeurope.org/revolving-doors/2015/07/revolving-door-greasing-wheels-ttip-lobby

"The prospective EU-US trade deal TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) could be the world’s biggest such treaty. While there are disagreements and divergences, in many areas of the negotiations the European Commission is singing from the corporate hymn-sheet. The revolving door between the public and private sectors is helping to grease the wheels of the TTIP corporate lobby. Some of the EU’s most senior decision-makers and officials, alongside those from the member state levels, spin through the revolving door into corporate advisor roles; others go in the other direction, from corporate jobs into the public sector. These revolving door cases cover some of the biggest EU corporate lobby sectors, including telecoms and IT issues; food and agriculture; finance; (...)

#usa #europe #économie

La catastrophe qui arrive au Mexique, fruit du nécro-pouvoir - El Correo
▻http://www.elcorreo.eu.org/La-catastrophe-qui-arrive-au-Mexique-fruit-du-necro-pouvoir

« Au Mexique, néo-colonie des États-Unis d’Amérique, le nécro-pouvoir transnational - un pouvoir diffus et pas exclusivement étatique − insère « l’économie de la mort » dans ses relations de production et de pouvoir ». Ceci est la synthèse du triste exemple qu’offre le Mexique à l’Europe afin qu’elle puisse se défendre du piège de « Partenariat transatlantique de commerce et d’investissement (PTCI) » ou en anglais le « Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) ».
El Correo

10 Powerful Images Explain Why We Should Be Worried About TTIP/CETA
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/10-powerful-images-explain-why-we-should-be-worried-about-ttipceta

The EU is negotiating two far-reaching trade agreements: one with the USA (TTIP = Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) and one with Canada (CETA = Comprehensive Economic and Trade...

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership : a brief history of an agenda for corporate plunder
▻http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-ttip-a-brief-history-of-an-agenda-for-corporate-plunder/5407780 #TTIP

Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/free-trade-explained-in-an-excellent-comic

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are the latest in a long line of international free trade agreements. But why are they bad for the...

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) resources - Trade - European Commission
▻http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ttip/resources/#videos

Press conference on 5th round of TTIP negotiations.

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) - Fifth round of negotiations 19-23 May 2014, Washington DC

#TTIP

Online public consultation on investment protection and investor-to-state dispute settlement (#ISDS) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (#TTIP) | Trade - European Commission
▻http://trade.ec.europa.eu/consultations/index.cfm?consul_id=179

Policy field: Investment
Target group: All stakeholders
Closing Date: 06/07/2014

Online questionnaire Available in all EU languages
▻http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=ISDS

To ensure that our public consultation is open and transparent, the Commission intends to publish a Contributions Report on the DG Trade’s website that will include a list of the names of all the companies/organisations from which we have received contributions.

Document :▻http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2014/march/tradoc_152280.pdf

Notice : ▻http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2014/march/tradoc_152279.pdf

Le libre-échange avant tout ?
▻http://www.taurillon.org/le-libre-echange-avant-tout

La Commission européenne et les États-Unis négocient l’accord de libre-échange commun, le TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), en évinçant largement les parlements et la société civile, ce qui, dans une Union européenne démocratique, ne peut être le cas. Quiconque souhaite lutter pour une Union démocratique doit s’inscrire en faux contre cet accord économique, rien qu’en raison de ses propres principes politiques. Un commentaire. Nous connaissons actuellement une atrocité et, du côté des (...)

#Économie / #États-Unis_d'Amérique, #Diplomatie

#CIEL: Chemical industry secretly manipulating US-EU trade negotiations (TTIP), March 10, 214
▻http://www.ciel.org/Chem/TTIP_10Mar2014.html

A leaked document** from the December 2013 round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations exposes the extent of chemical industry influence over secretive ongoing US-EU trade negotiations. Chemicals industry proposals to TTIP would have a chilling effect on the regulatory environment, slowing down the implementation of precautionary decisions on toxic chemicals, undermining democratic decision making and stifling the innovation of safer alternatives.

A report published today by #ClientEarth and CIEL shows that the leaked proposal from #lobby groups, the American Chemistry Council and the European Chemical Industry Council, would damage future protective #legislation on toxic chemicals.

For years the US government and the chemical industry has complained about protective EU chemicals laws being a trade barrier, with some industry groups calling it the largest transatlantic trade barrier. The major aim of the TTIP is to minimise what it calls technical barriers to trade. Its actions could weaken the implementation of vital laws to protect people and the environment. 

“This proposal illustrates two huge and interrelated problems with TTIP,” says Baskut Tuncak, Staff Attorney for the Center for International Environmental Law, “the privileged position of industry to craft language in the trade agreement without public input, and the unlimited potential of TTIP to affect the ability of countries to regulate on toxic chemicals, energy and climate change, food and agriculture, and other critical issues.” 

“The overriding theme of the proposals is secrecy,” says Vito Buonsante, ClientEarth Lawyer. “The industry wants to restrict the transparency of information, which is essential if people are to make choices about what they expose themselves to. They also want to undermine the democratic process by putting decision making in the hands of industry dominated committees.”

The report also shows that the leaked proposals would have a particularly damaging effect on legislation concerning chemicals that interfere with hormonal systems, such as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). EDCs are found in everyday products such as sunscreens, deodorants and children’s toys.

▻http://www.ciel.org/Publications/CH_Pro.pdf
▻http://www.ciel.org/Publications/ToxicPartnership_Mar2014.pdf

#accord_de_partenariat_transatlantique #APT #produits_chimiques #toxiques #santé #criminels

No fracking way - how the EU-US trade agreement risks expanding fracking | Corporate Europe Observatory
▻http://corporateeurope.org/climate-and-energy/2014/03/no-fracking-way-how-eu-us-trade-agreement-risks-expanding-fracking
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A trade deal between the EU and the US risks opening the backdoor for the expansion of fracking in Europe and the US, reveals a new report by Corporate Europe Observatory and other groups. As part of the deal currently being negotiated, energy companies could be allowed to take governments to private international tribunals if they attempt to regulate or ban fracking and the dangerous exploitation of unconventional fossil fuels. Campaigners are urging the EU not to include such rights in trade deals.

This brief analyses the investor rights clause in the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and how it could give special rights to companies to claim damages if they deem their investments (including future profits) are adversely affected by changes in regulation or policy.This would make it much harder for countries to ban or impose strong regulations on fracking for shale gas and other unconventional fossil fuels, for fear of having to pay millions in compensation. The report also argues that TTIP could expand fracking by removing the ability of governments to control natural gas exports.

More broadly, TTIP could likely thwart governments’ efforts to address global warming and reduce dependency on fossil fuels, the report states. It calls on the EU and the US to exclude investor-state dispute settlement rights from the agreement and from other trade deals in the pipeline – including the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

▻http://vimeo.com/88146142

No fracking way - how the EU-US trade agreement risks expanding fracking
March 6th 2014
Climate and Energy
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A trade deal between the EU and the US risks opening the backdoor for the expansion of fracking in Europe and the US, reveals a new report by Corporate Europe Observatory and other groups. As part of the deal currently being negotiated, energy companies could be allowed to take governments to private international tribunals if they attempt to regulate or ban fracking and the dangerous exploitation of unconventional fossil fuels. Campaigners are urging the EU not to include such rights in trade deals.

This brief analyses the investor rights clause in the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and how it could give special rights to companies to claim damages if they deem their investments (including future profits) are adversely affected by changes in regulation or policy.This would make it much harder for countries to ban or impose strong regulations on fracking for shale gas and other unconventional fossil fuels, for fear of having to pay millions in compensation. The report also argues that TTIP could expand fracking by removing the ability of governments to control natural gas exports.

More broadly, TTIP could likely thwart governments’ efforts to address global warming and reduce dependency on fossil fuels, the report states. It calls on the EU and the US to exclude investor-state dispute settlement rights from the agreement and from other trade deals in the pipeline – including the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

#fracking
#TTIP Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
#trade
#EU-US
#high-volume-hydraulic-fracturing
#ISDS
#EU-Canada
#CETA Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement

Doutes et hésitations de l’UE face au TTIP
▻http://www.dedefensa.org/article-doutes_et_h_sitations_de_l_ue_face_au_ttip_17_01_2014.html

@TITREBREVE = Doutes et hésitations de l’UE face au TTIP Il se développe un climat nouveau dans les institutions européennes, notamment à la Commission chargée directement du dossier, à l’égard des négociations en cours pour l’énorme accord de libre-échange transatlantique TTIP, ou Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership. Il ne s’agit pas de possibles révisions de position, encore moins de changement de doctrine, mais de quelque chose de beaucoup plus diffus quoique de

Brève de crise : doutes et hésitations de l’UE face au TTIP
▻http://www.dedefensa.org/article-br_ve_de_crise_doutes_et_h_sitations_de_l_ue_face_au_ttip_17_01_2

@TITREBREVE = Brève de crise : doutes et hésitations de l’UE face au TTIP Il se développe un climat nouveau dans les institutions européennes, notamment à la Commission chargée directement du dossier, à l’égard des négociations en cours pour l’énorme accord de libre-échange transatlantique TTIP, ou Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership. Il ne s’agit pas de possibles révisions de position, encore moins de changement de doctrine, mais de quelque chose de beaucoup plus diffus

Initiative d’activistes allemands contre le TTIP (Transatlantic Trade & Investment partnership)

TLAXCALA : TTIP : Nerveuse, la Commission européenne marque contre son camp
▻http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=11062

Quel honneur on nous fait ! Notre campagne contre le TTIP, le traité de libre échange USA-UE a fait l’objet d’un document officiel européen. Et très chic avec son en-tête et ses quatre pages. Quelqu’un a bien bossé. Ou alors il a eu peur.

La page d’accueil de Campact : ▻http://www.campact.de

European Commission preparing for EU-US trade talks: 119 meetings with industry lobbyists | Corporate Europe Observatory
▻http://corporateeurope.org/trade/2013/09/european-commission-preparing-eu-us-trade-talks-119-meetings-indust

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In response to an access to documents request from Corporate Europe Observatory, the European Commission has released a list of 130 ‘meetings with stakeholders’ on the EU-US free trade talks. At least 119 meetings were with large corporations and their lobby groups. This means that more than 93% of the Commission’s meetings with stakeholders during the preparations of the negotiations were with big business. The list of meetings reveals that, in addition to the civil society dialogue meetings reported on the DG Trade website, there is a parallel world of a very large number of intimate meetings with big business lobbyists behind closed doors - and these are not disclosed online.

Negotiations on an EU-US ‘free trade’ agreement (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP) started in July this year amid strong controversy and public concern about the impacts such an agreement could have on environmental regulations, food standards, data protection and other issues. The European Commission, which represents the EU in the negotiations, has reacted with a propaganda offensive that includes a Q&A website full of misleading claims about the TTIP talks and a ‘@EU_TTIP_team’ that counters critical messages on twitter. In mid-July, the Commission made a huge deal out of the civil society dialogue it had organised in Brussels on the TTIP talks, posting dozens of tweets about the event, praising the “interesting discussion” on issues such as “the environment, transparency, development” with “as many questions from NGOs [...] than there were from Industry”.

The event also features prominently on the website of the Commission’s trade department (DG Trade), in the ‘Dialogues’ section where the Commission states that it aims for “a transparent and accountable trade policy based on consultations with all parts of European civil society”. But what is disclosed on the website is only a tiny part of the meetings that DG Trade has with ‘stakeholders’.

In April, Corporate Europe Observatory submitted an access to documents request in order to get an overview of the Commission’s contacts with industry, in the context of the preparations for the EU-US trade talks. The Commission’s first response was to ask us to "narrow down the scope” of the request, because it “concerns a very large number of documents”. Three months later the first result arrived: a list of 130 ‘meetings with stakeholders’ that took place between January 2012 and April 2013.1 A few weeks later another five meetings were added to this list. DG Trade has informed us that the minutes and other reports of these 135 meetings, as well as correspondence between DG trade and industry lobbies, will be released later, but that they “cannot yet commit to a specific date”.

#EU-US
#European_Commission
#TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership)
#NGOs #ONG

TAFTA : premier pas vers un super-ACTA | La Quadrature du Net
▻http://www.laquadrature.net/fr/tafta-premier-pas-vers-un-super-acta

Au cours d’un vote en session plénière, le Parlement européen vient d’adopter un mandat autorisant explicitement la Commission européenne à « prévoir une protection solide de secteurs précisément définis des droits de propriété intellectuelle » dans les négociations du projet d’accord commercial UE-US, le “Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement” (TAFTA), aussi appelé le “Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership” (TTIP).
Restant sourds aux appels de la société civile et des universitaires, les membres du Parlement européen ont choisi de courir le risque que ce nouvel accord commercial puisse inclure le même type de mesures répressives que celles qu’ils ont refusé l’année dernière en rejetant ACTA. Tous les amendements appelant à rendre le processus plus transparent ont été rejetés. À partir de maintenant, lors de chaque round de négociation, et jusqu’au texte final, les citoyens devront rester vigilants et exiger des comptes de la Commission européenne et des autres négociateurs afin d’obtenir les textes en cours de négociation, et appeler leurs représentants à rester cohérents avec leur vote contre ACTA et à s’opposer à toute mesure répressive imposée au nom du droit d’auteur.

Le Parlement européen va-t-il donner le feu vert au prochain ACTA ? | La Quadrature du Net
▻https://www.laquadrature.net/fr/le-parlement-europeen-va-t-il-donner-le-feu-vert-au-prochain-acta

Le 22 mai, le Parlement européen votera en session plénière une résolution sur le projet d’accord commercial EU-US, le “Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement” (TAFTA), aussi appelé le “Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership” (TTIP). Après les batailles d’ACTA, SOPA et PIPA, l’industrie du divertissement tentera à nouveau d’utiliser un accord commercial pour imposer des mesures répressives en ligne. Avec le vote de mercredi, les députés européens pourraient être sur le point de voter en faveur de mesures répressives de même nature que celles qu’ils ont rejetées dans ACTA il y a quelques mois.

EU Parliament Opens The Door to Copyright Repression in TAFTA | La Quadrature du Net
▻http://www.laquadrature.net/en/eu-parliament-opens-the-door-to-copyright-repression-in-tafta

Paris, 25 April 2013 — Today, the “International Trade” (INTA) committee of the European Parliament adopted a resolution1 on the proposed EU-US trade agreement – the “Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement” (TAFTA), also touted as the “Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership” (TTIP). The Parliament unfortunately decided to ignore the calls of civil society groups to keep “IP out of TAFTA”.

via ▻http://02mydafsoup-01.soup.io/post/309976336/EU-Parliament-Opens-The-Door-to-Copyright

#copyright #TAFTA #TTIP #ACTA #Europe

Ca ne sentirait un peu OMC_&_ADPIC le retour ?

Pas vraiment eu le temps de lire en détail, mais ce genre d’accord pourrait bien essayer de nous faire de l’embrouille sémantique sur divers sujets.. genre #OGM, #sécurité-alimentaire, ou #propriété-intellectuelle. Je ne suis pas parano, c’est juste mon radar interne qui fait biiiiiiip

European Commission adopts draft negotiating mandate for EU-US Trade Talks

The European Commission today agreed the draft mandate for the
#Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investment_Partnership_Agreement with the United
States, effectively firing the starting gun for what is hoped to be a
relatively quick negotiation. The draft mandate will now be sent to the
Council for the Member States to approve it before negotiations can
start.

/Speaking at a press conference after the College meeting, EU Trade
Commissioner Karel De Gucht said/:

/“This key step to gearing up to the actual start of negotiations comes
just one month after the initial announcement by Presidents Obama,
Barroso and Van Rompuy to go for this ground-breaking trade deal. I hope
that Member States will decide quickly to open negotiations so we can
begin work ahead of the summer break.” /

/“Let me also take this opportunity ’to lay to rest’ some persistent
concerns and rumors. It is true that Europe and the US have differing
views on some core issues regarding, for example, food safety. Take
GMOs: we each have different views today and we will have different
views after the negotiations. However, a future deal will not change the
existing GMO legislation in Europe; let me repeat - “no change”./

/I am also fully aware of the sensitivities on certain issues including
the audiovisual sector and of course this will be duly taken into
account during the negotiations which, I should add, have not started
yet. We are still at an early stage in this process./

/The agreement will not force a change of current practices in the
Member States. Member States will continue to be able to support their
cultural industries and the audiovisual sector in particular, such as
through broadcasting quota or subsidies, as foreseen in the current EU
directives."/

/“An ambitious and comprehensive Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership could bring significant economic gains as a whole for the EU
– estimated at €119 billion euros a year - and for the US around €95
billion euros a year once the agreement is fully implemented. This
translates to an extra - on average - €545 euros in disposable income
each year for a family of four living in the EU.”/