Consumer Protection: US suspends EU at TTIP according to media reports under extreme pressure – ZEIT ONLINE

The Süddeutsche Zeitung NDR and WDR provide insight into the top-secret TTIP negotiations: The media reports to have received from Greenpeace, a contract document that so far only of parliamentarians must be consulted and other selected people under strict supervision. The environmental organization wants the documents at the start of the Re: publica conference presenting in Berlin on Monday publicly.

According to the media reports, the US government Europe is known in the TTIP negotiations considerably more pressure than before. Washington is about to threaten to block, facilitating exports for the European car industry to achieve in return for the EU decreases more US agricultural products. The documents also reveal according to the media that the US refuse the urgent European desire to replace the controversial private arbitration tribunals for consolidated actions by a public model.

General product bans the US wants also only accept when a scientific evidence exists that these foods endanger human health, it said. Thus TTIP would reduce the current standard in European consumer protection.

With the release Greenpeace wants to give citizens an unfiltered insight into the state of negotiations. Accordingly, it is 13 contract Chapter, representing about half of the entire agreement. They should stand in front of the closed on Friday 13th round of negotiations.

While the EU published its proposals, the United States insist on far secrecy of their positions. TTIP opponents practice repeatedly strongly criticized this lack of transparency. Greenpeace trade expert Jürgen crunch spoke overlooking the documentation of a “nightmare”, the “reality very soon” could. Of particular concern to him the US demands of loosening of consumer protection.

Even experts Verbaucherschutz reacted in horror. “It confirmed in the texts so far pretty much based all our fears of what the Americans want to achieve at TTIP with respect to the food market,” said Klaus Mueller, Chief Executive of the Federation of Consumer Organizations, the Süddeutsche Zeitung .