Parliament's draft recommendations on TTIP talks

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is currently being negotiated between the EU and the US as a comprehensive and ambitious trade agreement aiming to liberalise trade and investment as well as foster regulatory cooperation. Citizens in some EU Member States raise fears related to investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses in TTIP and, more generally, the impact of the future agreement on states’ regulatory freedom in the areas of the environment, consumer and labour law and data protection. In light of the number of amendments submitted on Parliament's draft recommendations for the negotiations, the plenary discussion and vote was postponed in June. But after a brief return to Committee they are now due to be discussed in the July plenary.