Focus on: TTIP & intellectual property
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15-Jul-2019 The European Sting
EU-US trade talks: milestone reached in mutual recognition on pharmaceuticals
The mutual recognition agreement for inspections of manufacturing sites for human medicines in their respective territories can make it faster and less costly for both sides to bring medicines to the market. -
4-Apr-2019 KEI
2019: USTR takes aim at European countries over pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies
In its latest report on foreign trade barriers, the USTR, prompted by the pharmaceutical industry, takes aim at the pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies in the European Union. -
28-May-2018 The Guardian
Chicken safety fear as chlorine washing fails bacteria tests
British microbiologists find that American technique at heart of Brexit trade row does not kill listeria and salmonella -
12-Sep-2017 MENAFN
Regulating across the digital divide
If the world’s three major economies the US, the EU, and China were ever to harmonise their approach to regulating digital trade and global data flows, the pressure on developing countries to accept digital rules would intensify. -
15-Dec-2016 La Tribune
Accords commerciaux : rien à regretter !
Les accords commerciaux entre pays ont du plomb dans l’aile, à l’exemple de l’accord transatlantique Europe-Etats-Unis (Tafta/TTIP). Mais faut-il vraiment le regretter? -
14-Dec-2016 Live Mint
Don’t cry over dead trade agreements
If we can manage our own economies well, new trade pacts will become largely redundant. -
18-Nov-2016 Institute for Information Law
Trade and privacy: complicated bedfellows?
How to achieve data protection-proof free trade agreements? -
16-Nov-2016 El Médico Interactivo
Los médicos creen que el TTIP sería una amenaza para la salud
Expertos en el tema debatieron sobre los perjuicios que podría suponer el Tratado de Libre Comercio (TTIP) -
16-Nov-2016 French Government
Data flow in trade agreements
The French Government calls on the European Commission to adopt an open and innovation-friendly data flow system while preserving European interests in trade agreements -
16-Nov-2016 Gouvernement français
Le Gouvernement appelle la Commission européenne à mettre en place un régime de circulation des données ouvert et favorable à l’innovation tout en préservant les intérêts européens dans les accords commerciaux
Un rapport éclaire les enjeux relatifs à ce sujet -
5-Oct-2016 Common Dreams
In boon for Big Pharma, TTIP would lock in high drug prices: report
’Unfortunately, trade agreements have become one more mechanism for drug corporations to expand their monopoly power’ -
4-Oct-2016 Les Echos
TTIP : le Conseil national du numérique donne à son tour l’alerte
Mounir Mahjoubi, président du CNNum, juge la négociation du traité transatlantique déséquilibrée au profit des géants américains du secteur. -
28-Sep-2016 Corporate Europe Observatory
Big Pharma lobbying in TTIP: Bad news for patients
Big Pharma is everything but shy when it comes to lobbying EU policy-makers. But what exactly are these groups lobbying for in TTIP? -
22-Aug-2016 BEUC
Did TTIP push the EU to scrap precaution on endocrine disruptors?
In June, the European Commission broke its promise that it will not trade away the ’precautionary principle’ to strike a trade deal with the United States, BEUC reports. -
15-Jul-2016 Le Monde
Le cerveau des enfants, au risque de la pollution chimique
Une cinquantaine de chercheurs et de cliniciens américains, spécialistes du développement cérébral, établissent un lien entre polluants environnementaux et augmentation des troubles neuro-comportementaux constatée chez les enfants. -
13-Jul-2016 EDRi
Study launch: The EU can achieve data protection-proof trade agreements
The purpose of the study was to have an independent assessment on the respect of privacy and data protection by trade agreements being negotiated by the European Union. -
1-Jul-2016 Noticias de Gipuskoa
The TTIP and the privitization of health
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Treaty (TTIP) may present a genuine threat to health and to the outcomes we have reached in the healthcare systems today. -
15-Jun-2016 Huffington Post
TTIP y salud
El TTIP no es un mero tratado de liberalización del comercio entre Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea, sino que incorpora numerosos elementos de regulación de sectores específicos; algunos de ellos especialmente sensibles para la población, como es el de la salud; en donde hay numerosos intereses económicos. -
31-May-2016 Rebelión
TTIP: en torno a cultura e internet
Aunque el proyecto de acuerdo también trata sobre el desmantelamiento de algunos aranceles, su contenido preferente reza al fondo sobre intangibles de gran importancia: la seguridad alimentaria; la desregulación de la competencia; la soberanía popular, legislativa y de los sistemas nacionales de justicia frente a tribunales internacionales de arbitraje. -
16-May-2016 War on Want
TTIP will damage public health and climate, says official report
The controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will have negative effects on public health, jobs and the climate, according to the official impact assessment.
