Ploumen allows critics assured chloorkip not come in – AD.nl

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16-4-15 – 22:56 Lilianne Ploumen Minister of Foreign Trade and Development © Reuters.

A free trade agreement between Europe and the United States is not a threat to food safety and the laws concerning environmental protection and animal welfare in Europe. That said Minister Lilianne Ploumen (Foreign Trade and Development) in Washington today.

Europe and the US have long been negotiating a comprehensive trade agreement, known as the TTIP agreement. Critics fear in particular that such an agreement undermines food security in Europe. European negotiators will not allow that, the minister said.

,, The chloorkip not come in, ” as referring to the widely used Ploumen specter of American chlorinated chicken. ,, That is not even on the table. This applies to all our standards for food safety, environmental and animal welfare legislation would decrease. ”

Dutch objections
Other obstacles must be clear whether Dutch concerns are also shared by the rest of Europe. These concerns include the arbitration system that allows foreign investors a government outside the national court to sue (ISDS).

Ploumen wants to curb this system, including only companies that provide many activities in Europe or the US rights to this area. Furthermore, the independence of the ISDS system must be ensured. According Ploumen these requirements in Europe are widely supported. Soon, according to a proposal from the European Commission are taken to what extent the actual proposals by Brussels.

European cheese
Concerns about the agreement life not only in Europe. For example, many Americans European cheese scarier than their own chloorkip. When negotiations are completed, according Ploumen is therefore impossible to predict. ,, The previous target of the end of 2015 seems very ambitious. Obama has indicated that it will complete within his term. I can find myself in. ”

Ploumen gave further today that the SER is asked for advice on the potential socio-economic impact of the TTIP for Netherlands. The board should review include whether Dutch and European rules on labor and trade unions are protected.