Events Brussels, Tuesday 25 November 2014

On Tuesday 25 November 2014, the EU TTIP negotiating team for chemicals will meet a broad range of EU civil society organisations for an in-depth discussion on TTIP and chemicals.

Do you represent a:

• non-governmental organisation (NGO) • consumers’ association • trade union or labour rights group • professional organisation • industry or business association • other civil society organisation ?

Are you based in the EU?

And are you interested in the chemicals provisions in TTIP?

If so, then come to our upcoming stakeholder meeting on Tuesday 25 November 2015.

Here you’ll have the chance to put your views, suggestions and questions directly to the team at the Commission who are currently negotiating the chemicals chapter in TTIP.  

Register now To register, please complete this online form by Friday 21 November at 17:00 Central European Time (CET). Members of the press are also welcome. We will stream the event live on the meeting’s webpage.

Write to us in advance

If you wish, you can also send us your views in writing beforehand, such as in a position paper. Simply email us at trade-civilsociety@ec.europa.eu by 19 November 2014 17:00 CET. We’ll then publish it on the meeting’s webpage before the meeting.

Where and when

• Venue: Sicco Mansholt room, Charlemagne Building, 170 Rue de la Loi, 1049 Brussels
• Date: Tuesday 25 November 2014
• Time: 10:00 – 12:00 CET

Publishing key documents on chemicals in TTIP

There has been unprecedented public interest in the TTIP negotiations and the European Commission is working to ensure a high level of transparency.

This includes our negotiations on chemicals:

- In May this year we published the EU's initial position paper on chemicals in TTIP.

- More recently, we responded to a letter  from environmental NGOs. In this we:

• explained in more detail our approach
• reaffirmed our determination to maintain the EU’s high levels of environmental and health protection with regard to chemicals.

And before this meeting we will publish two other important documents:

• an outline of possible provisions on chemicals in TTIP, which we presented to the US at the 7th round of negotiations
• a more detailed modalities paper – this develops ideas for putting EU-US regulatory cooperation on chemicals into practice; we also presented this to the US at the 7th round of negotiations.

Lead participants in the meeting • Mr Klaus Berend, Head of the REACH Unit in DG Enterprise Industry • Mr Bjorn Hansen, Head of the Chemicals Unit in DG Environment • Mr Fernando Perreau de Pinninck, Head of the unit covering Tariff and Non-tariff Negotiations, Rules of Origin and Acting Director for WTO, Legal Affairs and Trade in Goods in DG Trade • Mr Benjamin Musall, Policy Co-ordinator in the Market Access Unit in DG Trade

Moderator

• Mr Lutz Guellner, Deputy Head of Unit for Information, Communication and Civil Society in DG Trade