TTIP TALKS: what's cooking?

The Greens/EFA

in the European Parliament

Wiertzstraat- 1047 Brussels

www.greens-efa.eu

1. The European Commission has since the conference made a

number of their proposals public.

http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1230

http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=183

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/oira

http://www.imeche.org/knowledge/themes/environment/global-food

5. European Parliament (2014) RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE

EU AGRI-FOOD SECTOR IN A POSSIBLE EU-US TRADE AGREEMENT.

Policy Department B: Stuctural and Cohesion Policies,

Agriculture and Rural Development

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2014/514007/ AGRI_IPOL_STU(2014)514007_EN.pdf

http://www.arc2020.eu/front/2013/12/polish-agriculture-minister- questions-benefits-of-ttip/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/science/strong-support-for- labeling-modified-foods.html?_r=1

http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/976/ge-food-labeling/ state-labeling-initiatives

http://www.iatp.org/files/2014_11_05_TTIPProcurement_KHK.pdf

10. IATP (2014) Local Economies on the Table – TTIP Procurement

Update.

http://www.iatp.org/files/2014_11_05_TTIPProcurement_KHK.pdf

11. Robert A. Hoppe, James M. MacDonald and Penni Korb, Small

Farms in the United States, Persistence Under Pressure, USDA

Economic Research Service, Economic Information Bulletin Number

63, Feb. 2010, p. 27. -

See more at:

http://www.iatp.org/blog/201311/nafta-and-us- farmers%E2%80%9420-years-later#sthash.941OWzZg.dpuf

12.

http://www.beuc.org/publications/beuc-x-2014-076_cpe_beuc_posi- tion_paper_on_cloning.pdf

13. Client Earth, CIEL &NRDC (2014) Toxic Partnership Revealed.

http://www.clientearth.org/reports/20141002-chemical-annex-com- mission-proposal-sept-2014.pdf

14. The Plant Protection Product Regulation (EC 1107/2009):

http://eur- lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32009R1107

and the

Biocides Regulation :

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ ficheprocedure.do?reference=2009/0076%28COD%29&l=en

prohibit

products with endocrine-disrupting properties. Both regulations

required the Commission to specify scientific criteria for the deter-

mination of endocrine-disruption properties by 13 December 2013.

15. USTR (2014) 2014 Report on technical barriers to trade. United

States Trade Representative: Washinton DC,

https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/2014%20TBT%20Report.pdf

16. CIEL (2015) Lowest Common Denominator – How the proposed

EU-US Trade Deal Threatens to Lower Standards of Protection from

Toxic Pesticides.

http://ciel.org/Publications/LCD_TTIP_Jan2015.pdf

17. CropLife America & European Crop Protection Association (ECPA),

Proposal on US-EU Regulatory Cooperation at 2,

March 7, 2014,available at:

http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/default/files/ECPA-CLA%20 TTIP%20Position%20-%20Paper%2010-03-14.pdf

18.

http://ec.europa.eu/research/agriculture/scar/pdf/scar_feg3_final_ report_01_02_2011.pdf

19. UNCTAD 2013, Trade and Environment Revew 2013: Wake up Before

its too Late - Make Agriculture Truly Sustainable for Food Security

in a Changing Cimate, United Nations Conference on Trade and

Development (UNCTAD), Geneva.

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enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental

health, Anand Grover (2014) Unhealthy foods, non-communicable

diseases and the right to health. United Nations General Assembly:

Human Rights Council Twenty-sixth session

21. EHN (2012) European Cardiovascular Disease Statistics. Euroheart

II: European Heart Network-Brussels.

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Bloom, L.R., Fathima, S., Feigl, A.B., Gaziano, T., Mowafi, M., Pandya,

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