TTIPleaks
TTIPleaks refers to the documents published by the organization Greenpeace on May 2, 2016 on the ongoing negotiations of the planned Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States . It is a 248 page document. To protect the source, they were not published as a facsimile but as a copy . The copy was leaked to the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and the Süddeutsche Zeitung and verified by them. Greenpeace states that they have the original of the document.
content
The version published by Greenpeace contains 13 chapters. The text corresponds to the status before the beginning of the 13th round of negotiations, which was concluded on Friday, April 29th. The chapters are overwritten.
Chapter (original English wording) |
Chapter (German translation) |
from page |
---|---|---|
National Treatment and Market Access for Goods | National treatment and market entry for goods | 1 |
Agriculture | Agriculture | 17th |
Cross-border trade in services | Border trade | 35 |
Electronic Communications / Telecommunications | electronic communications, telecommunications | 47 |
Government Procurement | government procurement | 64 |
Government Procurement II | government procurement (Part II) | 98 |
Consolidated Proposed Customs and Trade Facilitation Text | consolidated, planned tariffs and trade facilitation | 102 |
Regulatory Cooperation | regulatory cooperation | 125 |
Technical barriers to trade | technical hurdles in trading | 141 |
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures | hygienic and phytosanitary legal measures | 157 |
Competition | competition | 184 |
Small and Medium Sized Enterprise | small and medium businesses | 189 |
State-owned enterprise | public company | 196 |
Dispute settlement | Dispute settlement | 210 |
Note - Tactical State of Play of the Negotiations | Note - tactical game play of the negotiations | 224 |
Publication actions
On the night of May 2, 2016 , Greenpeace projected excerpts from the secret documents onto the Reichstag building in Berlin . As part of Re: publica 2016, a fully glazed container was publicly set up by Greenpeace as a “TTIP reading room” in front of the Brandenburg Gate .
Consequences of the revelations
According to a representative survey of “a good thousand” citizens by ARD-Deutschlandtrend shortly after the publications, 79 percent of those questioned expressed doubts about maintaining consumer protection and concerns about secrecy during the negotiations. Shortly after the publication, the French President François Hollande said that he would reject a free trade agreement "as it is". All 28 member states of the European Union and the European Parliament must approve the agreement.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annett Meiritz: TTIP-Leak: "If this happens, we will live in another world". Spiegel Online , May 2, 2016, accessed May 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Alexander Hagelüken and Alexander Mühlauer: Secret TTIP papers revealed. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 1, 2016, accessed May 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Arthur Neslen: Leaked TTIP documents cast doubt on EU-US trade deal. (HTTPS) In: theguardian.com. May 1, 2016, accessed May 5, 2016 .
- ^ A b Greenpeace reveals secret TTIP documents , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. May 2, 2016. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
- ↑ Winand von Petersdorff-Campen: These are the points of contention at TTIP. In: faz.net. May 2, 2016, accessed May 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Crystal clear font. (HTTPS) In: greenpeace.de. May 2, 2016, accessed May 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Survey: More and more Germans see TTIP negatively. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 5, 2016, Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Jennifer Rankin: Doubts rise over TTIP as France threatens to block EU-US deal. (HTTPS) In: theguardian.com. May 3, 2016, accessed May 5, 2016 .