EFF joins 47 other civil society groups and experts from around the world to call on trade ministers of countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to publish the current draft of the agreement, as well as all nations’ negotiating positions. The TPP has been negotiated in secret for the last five years. But we know from several leaks of its Intellectual Property chapter that it contains various provisions that pose wide-ranging threats to users’ rights to free speech and privacy online. This letter follows the European Commission’s recent announcement to make EU-US trade negotiations over the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) more transparent—committing themselves to release the EU’s negotiating texts and to give access to all TTIP texts to members of the European Parliament. The EU Commission’s decision came amidst growing pressure from the public over the secrecy of its trade talks with the US. EU officials have become particularly cautious about facing popular resistance to TTIP, following massive protests across the region against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) two years ago. These public demonstrations led to the agreement’s eventual defeat when the European Parliament rejected its ratification.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 12:01:31 +0000
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