The EEB and T&E have given a cautious welcome today to the formation by the European Commission of a new advisory group on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. The formation of the group represents the very first step in what is still a long process of improving the transparency and accountability of the negotiations.
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Pieter de Pous, EEB EU Policy Director and representative on the group, commented: “The EEB has accepted the invitation to participate in this group in order to have a frank and direct exchange with the EU TTIP negotiators on the potential threat of this deal to environmental protection and to insist on some urgently needed openness and clarity.” He added: “We expect that the group’s formation to be only the first stage in the process of bringing these talks into the open and to see the EU abandon at the very least the most problematic elements of a potential deal.”
