EU court rules on transparency of commission planning transatlantic trade agreement

[JURIST] The European Court of Justice (ECJ) [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Thursday that the European Commission [official website] is not being sufficiently transparent regarding negotiations with the US on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) [policy website]. The TTIP aims to remove trade barriers between the EU and US, and make it easier to buy and sell goods and services between them. The court concluded that documents related to international activity, including the TTIP, must still comply with...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/07/eu-court-rules-commission-planning-transatlantic-trade-agreement-is-not-transparent-enough.php

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