Health Care Without Harm Europe has joined over 65 NGOs in warning European Parliament President Martin Schulz, that the European Commission continues to ignore critical aspects of the 2015 Parliamentary Resolution that called for reforming TTIP.

The letter delivered today highlights the findings of a new report demonstrating that the European Commission has crossed several red lines established by the European Parliament. The report, authored by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), ClientEarth, and the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), clarifies that the European Commission’s TTIP proposals could affect the more protective EU chemical and pesticide laws, undermine the EU regulatory system, and fail to respect the jurisdiction of courts of the EU and Member States.

“As it stands, TTIP threatens the EU’s stricter approach on regulating toxic chemicals, which is more precautionary than in the US, in direct contradiction of the European Parliament’s recommendations”

Carroll Muffett - President & CEO, CIEL

With the next negotiating round planned to start on 11 July, the 67 organisations ask President Schulz to strongly remind the European Commission to listen to the European Parliament’s recommendations, as outlined in last year’s resolution.

“Absent an immediate and dramatic reversal of course, the European Commission stands poised to negotiate a proposed TTIP agreement that the European Parliament, the European Member States and the European public cannot, should not and almost certainly will not accept”

David Azoulay - Senior Attorney & Environmental Health Program Director, CIEL.

Ignoring the European Parliament's resolution would mean a failure to protect the environment and public health. The healthcare sector, a large European procurer, would suffer under such a move, and patients' well-being would be put at greater risk from endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) as the EU has already received pressure from the US Government not to take ambitious measures to protect public health from them.

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