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Parliamentary question - E-003358/2014Parliamentary question
E-003358/2014

Details of the negotiations on the TTIP agreement

Question for written answer E-003358-14
to the Commission
Rule 117
Martin Kastler (PPE)

The negotiations on the TTIP trade agreement between the EU and the United States are primarily held in secret. This is an abuse of democracy that allows the rumour mill to run wild and alienates citizens.

Can the commission guarantee that the agreement concretely and permanently

1. excludes an opening-up of the European internal market to so-called ‘chlorine chickens’, which in the United States are placed in a chlorine bath after they have been slaughtered in order to kill germs?

2. removes the area of public infrastructure — primarily the sensitive sector of drinking water supply — from TTIP and does not obtain any new, competing special status for US companies that are active in the areas of energy, transportation or water management?

3. forbids the import of American cloned and hormone-containing meat into the European internal market?

Can the Commission prove all of this with official documents that are part of the negotiations with the United States?

OJ C 341, 30/09/2014