<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">FULL LEAK AT: <a href="http://www.ttip-leaks.org" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">http://www.ttip-leaks.org</a><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">/</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/01/leaked-ttip-documents-cast-doubt-on-eu-us-trade-deal" class="">http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/01/leaked-ttip-documents-cast-doubt-on-eu-us-trade-deal</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="content__header u-cf tonal__header" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;"><div class="gs-container" style="position: relative; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 71.25rem; padding-left: 0.625rem; padding-right: 0.625rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="content__main-column" style="max-width: 38.75rem; margin: auto 20rem auto 10rem; position: relative;"><h1 class="js-score content__headline" itemprop="headline" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 2.25rem; line-height: 2.5rem; font-family: 'Guardian Egyptian Web', 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; padding-top: 0.375rem; padding-bottom: 2.25rem;">Leaked TTIP documents cast doubt on EU-US trade deal</h1></div></div></div><div class="tonal__standfirst u-cf" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;"><div class="gs-container" style="position: relative; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 71.25rem; padding-left: 0.625rem; padding-right: 0.625rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="content__main-column" style="max-width: 38.75rem; margin: auto 20rem auto 10rem; position: relative;"><div class="content__standfirst" data-link-name="standfirst" data-component="standfirst" style="font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.375rem; font-family: 'Guardian Egyptian Web', 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 0.375rem; color: rgb(118, 118, 118);"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem;" class="">Greenpeace says internal documents show US attempts to lower or circumvent EU protection for environment and public health</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">Talks for a free trade deal between <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class="u-underline" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration: none !important;">Europe</a> and the US face a serious impasse with “irreconcilable” differences in some areas, according to leaked negotiating texts.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">The two sides are also at odds over US demands that would require the EU to break promises it has made on environmental protection. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">President Obama said last week he was confident a deal could be reached. But the leaked negotiating drafts and internal positions, which were obtained by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/greenpeace" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class="u-underline" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration: none !important;">Greenpeace</a> and seen by the Guardian, paint a very different picture.</p><aside class="element-rich-link element--thumbnail element element-rich-link--upgraded" data-component="rich-link" data-link-name="rich-link-2 | 1" style="float: left; margin: 0.3125rem 1.25rem 0.75rem -10rem; clear: both; width: 13.75rem; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;"><div class="rich-link tone-comment--item" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 236);"><div class="rich-link__container" style="position: relative;"><div class="rich-link__header" style="font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.5rem; font-family: 'Guardian Egyptian Web', 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; padding: 0.25rem 0.3125rem 0.75rem; box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 2.25rem;"><h1 class="rich-link__title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span class=" inline-quote inline-icon" style="fill: #767676;"><svg width="17" height="10" viewBox="0 0 33 20"><path d="M9.002 20c3.85.068 6.932-3.104 7-6.994.068-3.892-3.15-6.937-7-7.006-2.016-.036-3.59.694-4.888 2.053-.07-.48-.122-1.04-.113-1.553C4.065 2.97 7.415.937 11.004 1l-1-1C3.98 0 .098 4.447.003 10.006c-.098 5.557 3.35 9.892 9 9.994zm17 0c3.85.068 6.932-3.104 7-6.994.068-3.892-3.15-6.937-7-7.006-2.016-.036-3.59.694-4.888 2.053-.07-.48-.122-1.04-.113-1.553.064-3.53 3.414-5.563 7.003-5.5l-1-1c-6.022 0-9.904 4.447-10 10.006-.097 5.557 3.35 9.892 9 9.994z"></path></svg> </span><a class="rich-link__link" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; cursor: pointer;">TTIP is a very bad excuse to vote for Brexit</a></h1><div class="rich-link__byline" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; padding-right: 1.25rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; color: rgb(230, 113, 27);">Nick Dearden </div></div><div class="rich-link__read-more" style="padding-left: 0.3125rem;"><div class="rich-link__arrow" style="height: 1.5rem; width: 1.5rem; display: inline-block;"><svg width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd"><path class="rich-link__arrow-icon" d="m12 0c-6.627 0-12 5.373-12 12 0 6.627 5.373 12 12 12 6.627 0 12-5.373 12-12 0-6.627-5.373-12-12-12m.21 19l-.637-.668 4.888-6.326h-11.465v-1.01h11.465l-4.888-6.333.637-.668 6.79 7.158v.685l-6.79 7.157"></path></g></svg></div> <div class="rich-link__read-more-text" style="font-size: 0.875rem; font-family: 'Guardian Egyptian Web', 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; display: inline-block; height: 1.875rem; line-height: 1.625rem; padding-left: 0.125rem; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(230, 113, 27);">Read more</div></div><a class="u-faux-block-link__overlay rich-link__link" href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/25/ttip-vote-brexit-barack-obama-leave-eu-trade-deal" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-indent: 200%; white-space: nowrap; position: absolute; z-index: 2; opacity: 0; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"></a></div></div></aside><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">“Discussions on cosmetics remain very difficult and the scope of common objectives fairly limited,” says one internal note by EU trade negotiators. Because of a European ban on animal testing, “the EU and US approaches remain irreconcilable and EU market access problems will therefore remain,” the note says.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">Talks on engineering were also “characterised by continuous reluctance on the part of the US to engage in this sector,” the confidential briefing says.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">These problems are not mentioned in a separate report on the state of the talks, also leaked, which the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/european-commission" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class="u-underline" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration: none !important;">European commission</a> has prepared for scrutiny by the European parliament.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">These outline the positions exchanged between EU and US negotiators between the 12th and <a href="https://ustr.gov/ttip/ttip-round-information" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class="u-underline" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration: none !important;">the 13th round of TTIP talks</a>, which took place in New York last week.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">The public document offers a robust defence of the EU’s right to regulate and create a court-like system for disputes, unlike the internal note, which does not mention them.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">Jorgo Riss, the director of Greenpeace EU, said: “These leaked documents give us an unparalleled look at the scope of US demands to lower or circumvent EU protections for environment and public health as part of TTIP. The EU position is very bad, and the US position is terrible. The prospect of a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/ttip" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class="u-underline" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration: none !important;">TTIP</a> compromising within that range is an awful one. The way is being cleared for a race to the bottom in environmental, consumer protection and public health standards.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">US proposals include an obligation on the EU to inform its industries of any planned regulations in advance, and to allow them the same input into EU regulatory processes as European firms. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">American firms could influence the content of EU laws at several points along the regulatory line, including through a plethora of proposed technical working groups and committees.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">“Before the EU could even pass a regulation, it would have to go through a gruelling impact assessment process in which the bloc would have to show interested US parties that no voluntary measures, or less exacting regulatory ones, were possible,” Riss said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">The US is also proposing new articles on “science and risk” to give firms greater regulatory say. Disputes over pesticides residues and food safety would be dealt with by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s <a href="http://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/en/" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class="u-underline" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration: none !important;">Codex Alimentarius</a> system.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">Environmentalists say the body has loose rules on corporate influence, allowing employees of companies <a href="http://www.essen-ohne-chemie.info/ttip-pestizide/" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class="u-underline" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration: none !important;">such as BASF, Nestle </a><a href="http://www.essen-ohne-chemie.info/ttip-pestizide/" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class="u-underline" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration: none !important;">and Coca Cola</a> to sit on – and sometimes lead – national delegations. Some 44% of its decisions on pesticides residues have been less stringent than EU ones, with 40% of rough equivalence and 16% being more demanding, according to Greenpeace.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">GM foods could also find a widening window into Europe, with the US pushing for a working group to adopt a “low level presence initiative”. This would allow the import of cargo containing traces of unauthorised GM strains. The EU currently blocks these because of food safety and cross-pollination concerns. </p><aside class="element-rich-link element--thumbnail element element-rich-link--upgraded" data-component="rich-link" data-link-name="rich-link-2 | 2" style="float: left; margin: 0.3125rem 1.25rem 0.75rem -10rem; clear: both; width: 13.75rem; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;"><div class="rich-link tone-feature--item " style="margin: 0px; position: relative; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(149, 28, 85); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rich-link__container" style="position: relative;"><div class="u-responsive-ratio rich-link__image-container" style="width: 220px; padding-bottom: 132px; position: relative; overflow: hidden; transition: background-color 0.25s ease; -webkit-transition: background-color 0.25s ease; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392);"><img itemprop="contentURL" style="border: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px;" apple-inline="yes" id="D09C1B9F-C7F0-43CA-BA49-07771FBDC155" height="276" width="460" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:699C7364-538A-4AE5-BE3E-B439E9DAC009" class=""></div><div class="rich-link__header" style="font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.5rem; font-family: 'Guardian Egyptian Web', 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; padding: 0.25rem 0.3125rem 0.75rem; box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 2.25rem;"><h1 class="rich-link__title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><a class="rich-link__link" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); cursor: pointer;">What is TTIP and why should we be angry about it?</a></h1></div><div class="rich-link__read-more" style="padding-left: 0.3125rem;"><div class="rich-link__arrow" style="height: 1.5rem; width: 1.5rem; display: inline-block;"><svg width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd"><path class="rich-link__arrow-icon" d="m12 0c-6.627 0-12 5.373-12 12 0 6.627 5.373 12 12 12 6.627 0 12-5.373 12-12 0-6.627-5.373-12-12-12m.21 19l-.637-.668 4.888-6.326h-11.465v-1.01h11.465l-4.888-6.333.637-.668 6.79 7.158v.685l-6.79 7.157"></path></g></svg></div> <div class="rich-link__read-more-text" style="font-size: 0.875rem; font-family: 'Guardian Egyptian Web', 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; display: inline-block; height: 1.875rem; line-height: 1.625rem; padding-left: 0.125rem; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(253, 173, 186);">Read more</div></div><a class="u-faux-block-link__overlay rich-link__link" href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/03/ttip-what-why-angry-transatlantic-trade-investment-partnership-guide" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(234, 210, 221); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-indent: 200%; white-space: nowrap; position: absolute; z-index: 2; opacity: 0; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"></a></div></div></aside><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">The EU has not yet accepted the US demands, but they are uncontested in the negotiators’ note, and no counter-proposals have been made in these areas.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">In January, <a href="http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2016/january/tradoc_154173.pdf" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class="u-underline" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration: none !important;">the EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström said [pdf]</a>the precautionary principle, obliging regulatory caution where there is scientific doubt, was a core and non-negotiable EU principle. She said: “We will defend the precautionary approach to regulation in Europe, in TTIP and in all our other agreements.” But the principle is not mentioned in the 248 pages of TTIP negotiating texts.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class=""><a href="http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2015/january/tradoc_153013.1%20TSD.pdf" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class="u-underline" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration: none !important;">The European commission has also promised</a> to safeguard environmental laws, defend international standards and protect the EU’s right to set high green benchmarks in future.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">But the new leak will not placate <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/23/ttip-eu-negotiators-appear-to-break-environmental-pledge-in-leaked-draft" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class="u-underline" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration: none !important;">critics of the deal</a>, who have pointed to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/26/ttip-chevron-lobbied-for-controversial-legal-right-as-environmental-deterrent" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class="u-underline" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration: none !important;">attempts by fossil fuel firms</a> and others to influence its outcome, as a sign of things to come.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">The EU negotiators internal note says “the US expressed that it would have to consult with its chemical industry on how to position itself” on issues of market access for non-agricultural goods.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;" class="">Where industry lobbying in regulatory processes is concerned, the US also “insisted” that the EU be “required” to involve US experts in its development of electrotechnical standards.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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