TMT and Privacy Law Digest : EU and US negotiators kick off a fifth round of talks on a new trade and investment pact (TTIP)

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

EU and US negotiators kick off a fifth round of talks on a new trade and investment pact (TTIP)

Negotiators began their work on Monday in several areas:

regulatory coherence
intellectual property rights
labour and the environment
certain sectoral regulatory areas.

Additional groups will begin work today, including:

services and investment - without investment protection or investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS)
technical barriers to trade
agricultural market access
rules of origin.

Members of the press can direct requests during the round to our respective contacts in Washington D.C.:

for the EU: Mr Kasper Zeuthen
for the US: Ms Anne Eisenhower

You can also:

follow the EU's negotiating team on Twitter
download the EU's negotiating positions and other key documents online

more at http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1065&cookies=disabled

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