EU-US negotiations on TTIP: A survey of current issues

With the next TTIP negotiating session due in July 2015, an extraordinary meeting of the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee (INTA) will be held on 29 June 2015. The Committee will discuss the many amendments put forward in plenary earlier in June 2015 to its draft recommendations for the EU’s negotiators, with the aim of finding compromises which the Parliament can rally behind.

It had been announced on the 9 June 2015 that the vote planned for the 10 June 2015 would be postponed because of divisions within, in particular, the S&D Group and pressure from NGOs opposed to the investor protection clauses and other aspects of the proposed TTIP agreement.

ESO: Key Source: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) http://www.europeansources.info/record/transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-ttip/

EP: EPRS: In-Depth Analysis, June 2015: EU-US negotiations on TTIP. Survey of current issues http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2015/559502/EPRS_IDA(2015)559502_EN.pdf

ESO: Background information: TTIP: more US market access, reform investment protection, retain EU standards http://www.europeansources.info/record/ttip-more-us-market-access-reform-investment-protection-retain-eu-standards/

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