Estimadas/os compañeras/os:
Aquí una
ciber-acción para seguir presionando a la Comisión Europea para que
tenga en cuenta las miles de respuesta en las Consulta Pública sobre el
Mecanismo de Solución de Controversias entre Inversor y Estado (ISDS,
por sus siglas en inglés).
Os animamos a participación y difundir la ciber-acción en redes sociales (véase opciones abajo).
Dear activist,
In spring last year, you participated in the ‘no2isds’ online action to tell the European Commission that no special tribunals for big businesses should be included in a possible EU-US trade agreement (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – TTIP). These secret tribunals would allow companies to sue countries when laws or regulations that protect citizens and our environment get in the way of their profits.
Your signature has helped to put the European Commission under pressure. In collaboration with other groups and networks, we collected over 145,000 people’s voices which all expressed outright rejection of the dangerous tribunals. This represents an overwhelming majority of the almost 150,000 contributions to the consultation.
But our opposition is in danger of being ignored.
Former EU trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht referred to our mobilisation as “an outright attack” because of the similarity of the responses. Now his successor Cecilia Malmström presented a first analysis of the consultation results. She recognised the overwhelming opposition to ISDS, yet the European Commission is unwilling to scrap it. We need to make sure that our message comes out loud and clear: European citizens don’t want ISDS in the EU-US trade deal, or any other trade deal.
Here is how you can help to ensure that this is the only lesson the European Commission draws from the consultation:
In spring last year, you participated in the ‘no2isds’ online action to tell the European Commission that no special tribunals for big businesses should be included in a possible EU-US trade agreement (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – TTIP). These secret tribunals would allow companies to sue countries when laws or regulations that protect citizens and our environment get in the way of their profits.
Your signature has helped to put the European Commission under pressure. In collaboration with other groups and networks, we collected over 145,000 people’s voices which all expressed outright rejection of the dangerous tribunals. This represents an overwhelming majority of the almost 150,000 contributions to the consultation.
But our opposition is in danger of being ignored.
Former EU trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht referred to our mobilisation as “an outright attack” because of the similarity of the responses. Now his successor Cecilia Malmström presented a first analysis of the consultation results. She recognised the overwhelming opposition to ISDS, yet the European Commission is unwilling to scrap it. We need to make sure that our message comes out loud and clear: European citizens don’t want ISDS in the EU-US trade deal, or any other trade deal.
Here is how you can help to ensure that this is the only lesson the European Commission draws from the consultation:
Tweet to
the Commissioners responsible for ISDS, send
them an E-mail
or share our infographic on Facebook.
IMPACTOS MEDIOAMBIENTALES: ESTUDIO
By Susanna Williams
ENDS Europe, 14 January 2015
ENDS Europe, 14 January 2015
The EU-US free trade agreement currently under negotiation
could change the way EU environmental laws are implemented, according to
European Parliament research.
The recently weakened proposal on the implementation of the
Fuel Quality Directive (FQD) is a prime example of the influence the
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) can have on EU
legislation, Parliament researchers have told industry and energy
committee MEPs.
The FQD is likely to benefit US firms wishing to export fuels from Canadian tar sands to Europe, the researchers said.
They also recommend keeping a close eye on the negotiations’ potential impact on the EU’s chemicals law, REACH.
The EU and the US are discussing how they could share the
task of assessing chemicals while not aligning the two regulatory
systems. NGOs have warned that cooperation could delay implementation of
stricter rules in the EU.
The researchers do not expect the agreement to lower EU
energy prices by increasing fuel supply to Europe. The US crude oil
export ban is likely to stay in place while a significant increase in
natural gas exports is unlikely to materialise as the EU’s requests for
an energy chapter to gain access to US resources appears tohave fallen
on deaf ears.
But the removal of a local content requirement on both
sides of the Atlantic promoting the use of local material or workforce
is likely to boost trade in renewable energy technologies, helping the
EU wind energy manufacturing sector.
