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.”/