Joint Statement : 455 European and Canadian civil society groups call for rejection of CETA We, the undersigned civil society organisations from Canada and Europe, hereby express our deep concern about the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada. During the long process of the deal’s negotiations and legal check, we repeatedly pointed out major problems with the CETA text. We provided concrete inputs, which could have triggered a shift towards a more transparent and democratic trade policy with the protection of the environment and people’s fundamental rights at its core. But our concerns have not been addressed in the CETA as signed in October 2016. This is why we are stating our firm opposition to the ratification of the agreement. Our objections are shared by a growing number of citizens on both sides of the Atlantic. A record 3.5 million people from all over Europe have signed a petition against CETA and its twin agreement, the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.[i] Over 2,100 local and regional governments have declared themselves TTIP- and CETA-free.[ii] Constitutional challenges against CETA have been filed in Germany [iii] and Canada iv and the legality of CETA’s controversial privileges for foreign investors will likely be ruled on by the Court of Justice of the European Union.[v] On both sides of the Atlantic, farmers, trade unions, public health, consumer, environmental and digital rights groups, other NGOs, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have rejected the agreement.[vi] In October 2016, concerns in four sub-federal Belgian governments about the agreement’s negative impacts, and, in particular, its dangerous “investment court system”, nearly stopped their federal government from signing CETA. Despite the controversy, the Canadian government and the EU institutions are trying to expedite CETA’s ratification. In Canada, legislation that would bring the agreement into force has already been introduced, without allowing time for any public consultation on the final agreement. The European Parliament also seems set to cut short its internal consultation processes, thereby limiting debate over ratifying the 1,600-page-long CETA text. After that, large parts of the agreement would be brought into force provisionally – long before the parliaments of all 28 EU member states have had their say. To gain support for CETA ratification and allay concerns, numerous declarations have been attached to the text in the past months. But not a letter of the CETA text has been changed since its final version was published in early 2016. And despite the accompanying statements, including a EU-Canada “Joint Interpretative Instrument”, fundamental problems arising from the problematic CETA text remain, as experts have demonstrated.[vii] We wish to highlight some of our fundamental concerns about the agreement as signed: CETA would empower thousands of corporations to sue governments over legitimate and non-discriminatory measures to protect people and the planet. Nothing in the agreement or the accompanying declarations would stop corporations from using CETA’s investor rights to bully decision-makers away from public interest regulation, for example to tackle climate change. CETA even leaves the door open to “compensating” corporations for unrealised future profits when a change in policy affects their investment. Far from “radically” reforming the investor-state dispute settlement process, CETA expands and entrenches it.[viii] CETA’s Investment Court System (ICS) grants highly enforceable rights to investors – but no corresponding obligations. It does not enable citizens, communities or trade unions to bring a claim when a company violates environmental, labour, health, safety, or other rules. It risks being incompatible with EU law as it establishes a parallel legal system, allowing investors to circumvent existing courts. The ICS is discriminatory because it grants rights to foreign investors that are neither available to citizens nor to domestic investors.[ix] In stark contrast to the rights for corporations, CETA’s provisions on labour rights and sustainable development cannot be effectively enforced through sanctions. They remain empty statements with no bearing on the dangers that other chapters in the agreement pose to workers’ rights, environmental protection and measures to mitigate climate change.[x] CETA severely limits governments’ ability to create, expand, and regulate public services and reverse failed liberalisations and privatisations. CETA is the first EU agreement which makes the liberalisation of services the rule and public interest regulation the exception. This threatens people’s access to high-quality services such as water, transport, social and health care, as well as attempts to provide public services in line with public interest goals.[xi] An independent study of CETA’s economic impacts predicts jobs would be lost in both Canada and Europe, economic growth would be slower than without the deal, and the rather small income gains would go overwhelmingly to capital owners – not workers. As a result, inequality is expected to be higher under CETA than without the agreement.[xii] CETA makes Canada and the EU more vulnerable to financial crises by further liberalising financial markets and severely restricting reforms aimed at removing key causes of financial instability and ensuring better protection of consumers and the economy as a whole.[xiii] CETA would drive up Canadian prescription drug costs by at least Can$850 million per year (€583 million). It would negatively impact fundamental rights, such as the right to privacy and data protection and limit the EU’s and Canada’s ability to roll back excessive intellectual property rights (IPR) that limit access to knowledge and innovation. Some of CETA’s IPRs resemble closely the text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which was rejected by the European Parliament in 2012.[xiv] CETA’s rules on regulatory cooperation and domestic regulation will put additional burdens on regulators and strengthen the role of corporate lobbyists in the policy-making process, potentially undermining much-needed public interest policy-making.[xv] On both sides of the Atlantic, CETA would expose farmers to competitive pressures that undermine their livelihoods with little gain to consumers; increase corporate control over seeds; obstruct buy-local food policies; and threaten high food processing and production standards, undermining efforts to boost sustainable agriculture.[xvi] Precautionary measures to protect consumers, public health and the environment could be challenged under CETA based on claims that they are overly burdensome, not “science based” or are disguised trade barriers. Nothing in the CETA text or accompanying declarations effectively protects the role of the precautionary principle in European regulatory policy, while some sections even refer to conflicting principles.[xvii] CETA is the result of a largely secret negotiation process between the previous Canadian government and the previous European Commission. The final CETA text and accompanying declarations ignore almost all of the reasonable and very specific amendments proposed by civil society xviii to address the flaws of the agreement. The most recent attempts to re-open the negotiations, by the government of the Walloon region in Belgium, were blocked. Now, only a ‘take it or leave it’, yes or no vote on the 1,600-page agreement is possible. We urge: the European Parliament, the Canadian Parliament, as well as national, provincial and regional parliaments, which have a say in the ratification, to defend the rights and interests of the people they represent against the threats posed by CETA by voting against the ratification of the agreement; the many municipal and other regional and provincial governments that have raised concerns over CETA to make their voices heard in the ratification process; these parties to begin a thorough, democratic consultation, including of civil society, on the foundations of a new, fair and sustainable trade agenda. As it stands, CETA is not a progressive trade deal. It would be a mistake to adopt this treaty with its many worrying provisions as a model for agreements to come. CETA is a backward-looking and even more intrusive version of the old free trade agenda designed by and for the world’s largest multinationals. We need a paradigm shift toward a transparent and inclusive trade policy founded on the needs of people and our planet. Ratifying CETA will take us many steps further away from this much needed change. Signatories International Center for International Environmental Law, International FIAN International, International GRAIN, International International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF), International IATP – Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, International IOGT International, International Public Services International (PSI), International SumOfUs, International ActionAid International, International No Vox International, International European organisations ClientEarth, Europe Compassion in World Farming, Europe European Digital Rights (EDRi), Europe European Environmental Bureau, Europe European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), Europe European Transport Workers’ Federation, Europe European Secretariat of the World March of Women, Europe Federation of Young European Greens, Europe Food & Water Europe, Europe Foodwatch, Europe Friends of the Earth Europe, Europe Green Budget Europe, Europe Greenpeace, Europe Seattle to Brussels network, Europe The Health and Trade Network, Europe UNI Europa, Europe Canadian organisations Breaking the Silence Maritime Guatemala Solidarity Network PEI Chapter, Canada Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Canada Canadian Environmental Law Association, Canada Canadian Health Coalition, Canada Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Canada Canadian Union of Public Employees, Canada Citizens in Action, Canada Common Frontiers, Canada Cooper Institute, Canada Coordination québécoise de la Marche mondiale des femmes, Canada, Quebec Council of Canadians, Canada Don’t Frack PEI, Canada Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island (ECO-PEI), Canada Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ), Canada Green Economy Network, Canada Group of 78, Canada MacKillop Centre for Social Justice, Canada MiningWatch Canada, Canada National Farmers Union, Canada National Union of Public and General Employees, Canada OpenMedia, Canada PEI Coalition for a Poverty Eradication Strategy, Canada PEI Federation of Labour, Canada PEI Health Coalition, Canada People’s Health Movement Canada/Mouvement populaire pour la santé au Canada, Canada PharmaWatch Canada, Canada Prince Edward Island Food Security Network, Canada Public Service Alliance of Canada, Canada Save Our Seas and Shores, Canada Seafarers International Union of Canda, Canada Trade Justice Network, Canada Unifor, Canada United Steelworkers, Canada Alliance du personnel professionnel et technique de la santé et des services sociaux (APTS), Canada, Quebec Alternatives, Canada, Quebec AmiEs de la Terre Québec, Canada, Quebec Association canadienne des avocats du mouvement syndical (ACAMS-CALL), Canada, Quebec Association québécoise des organismes de coopération internationale (AQOCI), Canada, Quebec Attac-Québec, Canada, Quebec Centrale des syndicats démocratiques (CSD), Canada, Quebec Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ), Canada, Quebec Centre international de solidarité ouvrière (CISO), Canada, Quebec Centre justice et foi, Canada, Quebec Chapitre montréalais du Conseil des Canadiens, Canada, Quebec Coalition des associations de consommateurs du Québec (CACQ), Canada, Quebec Coalition Solidarité Santé, Canada, Quebec Collectif pour un Québec sans pauvreté, Canada, Quebec Comité pour les droits humains en Amérique latine (CDHAL), Canada, Quebec Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), Canada, Quebec Conseil central du Montréal métropolitain (CCMM-CSN), Canada, Quebec Eau Secours! la coalition québécoise pour une gestion responsable de l’eau, Canada, Quebec Fédération des femmes du Québec (FFQ), Canada, Quebec Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ), Canada, Quebec Fédération étudiante collégiale du Québec (FECQ), Canada, Quebec Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec (FIQ), Canada, Quebec Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain (FRAPRU), Canada, Quebec Génération nationale, Canada, Quebec L’R des centres de femmes du Québec, Canada, Quebec L’Entraide missionnaire, Canada, Quebec Ligue des droits et libertés, Canada, Quebec Mouvement d’éducation populaire et d’action communautaire du Québec (MÉPACQ), Canada, Quebec Réseau québécois des groupes écologistes (RQGE), Canada, Quebec Réseau québécois sur l’intégration continentale (RQIC), Canada, Quebec Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique (SCFP-Québec), Canada, Quebec Syndicat des Métallos, Canada, Quebec Syndicat des professionnelles et professionnels du gouvernement du Québec (SPGQ), Canada, Quebec Unifor Québec, Canada, Quebec Union des consommateurs, Canada, Quebec Union des employés et employées de service section locale 800 (UES 800), Canada, Quebec Union paysanne, Canada, Quebec EU member states AK EUROPA, Austria 3 F Frederiksborg, Denmark A contre-courant, Belgium AB “Švyturys” trade union, Lithuania ActiveWatch, Romania ACV-CSC, Belgium AEFJN, Belgium Afrika Kontakt, Denmark Aire, Spain AITEC, France AK Fracking Braunschweiger Land, Germany Aktion gegen arbeitsunrecht (action against labour injustice), Germany aktion21-austria, Austria Alcohol Policy Youth Network, Slovenia ALEBA – Association Luxembourgeoise des Employés de Banque et Assurance, Luxembourg Alliance D19-20, Belgium Alliance for Cancer Prevention, United Kingdom Amis de la Terre, France AMPOS – Association of Professional Musicians of Symphonic Orchestras, Spain An Claíomh Glas, Ireland An Taisce, Ireland Animalia, Finland ANSOL – Associação Nacional para o Software Livre, Portugal Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft (AbL), Germany Arran Lleida, Spain Asamblea de andalucia (ada), Spain, Andalucia ASAMBLEA FRACKING NO MERINDADES NORTE DE BURGOS, Spain ASiA- Associació Salut i Agroecologia, Spain Asociația Mai Bine, România Asociația Pro Educatie, Istorie si Cultură Corvinias, Romania Asociaţia România Vie / Romania Alive Society, Romania Associació Catalana de Juristes Demòcrates, Spain Catalunya Asociación Profesional Elite Taxi, Spain Ateneu Cooperatiu La Baula, Spain – Lleida (Catalonia) Ateneu Popular Garriguenc, Spain Catalunya Attac Austria, Austria Attac DG, Belgium Attac Finland, Finland Attac France, France Attac Germany, Germany Attac Hungary, Hungary Attac Ireland, Ireland Attac Italia, Italy Attac Luxembourg, Luxembourg Attac Norway, Norway Attac Spain, Spain AVALOT -Joves de la UGT de Catalunya-, Spain Balkani Wildlife Society, Bulgaria Baloldali Alternatíva Egyesülés, Hungary Berufsvereinigung der bildenden Künstler Österreichs, Zentralverband, Austria Biodynamiske Forbrugere, Denmark Bio-Lëtzebuerg, Luxemburg Blue 21 e.V., Germany Both ENDS, The Netherlands Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), Friends of the Earth Germany, Germany Bündnis TTIP Stoppen, Austria Campact e.V., Germany Campagna Stop TTIP Italia, Italy Campaign against Climate Change, United Kingdom Campaña #NoalTTIP, Spain Cancer Prevention & Education Society, United Kingdom Casal d’amistat amb Cuba de Lleida, Spain Catalonia CEDD – Centrul de Excelenta pentru Dezvoltare Durabila, Romania CEDSALA, Spain Valencia Centar za životnu sredinu/ Friends of the Earth Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina Center for Encounter and Active Non-Violence, Austria Centre for Global Education, Ireland CGIL (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro), Italy CGT, France CGT Lleida, Spain Christliche Initiative Romero (CIR), Germany CIG, Spain Galicia Civilek Mecsekért Mozgalom, Hungary Clare Says No To TTIP & CETA, Ireland Clean Air Action Group, Hungary CLIAB, Spain Climaxi, Belgium CNCD-11.11.11, Belgium COAG, Spain Colla Ecologista d’Almassora, Spain Collectif amainte, France Collectif Roosevelt, France Comhlámh, Ireland COMISIONES OBRERAS (CS CCOO), Spain Comúdelleida, Spain Confederacion de Autonomos del Taxi de la Comunidad Valenciana, Spain Valencia Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT-Spain), Spain Confederación General del Trabajo de Almería CGT-Almería, Spain Confederación Intersindical, Spain Consorzio della Quarantina, Italy Coomhola Salmon Trust, ltd., Ireland Coordinadora d’ONGD i aMS de Lleida, Spain Coordination Climat Justice Sociale Genève, Switzerland Coordination Rurale, France CorA Network for Corporate Accountability, Germany Corporate Europe Observatory, Belgium COSPE Onlus, Italy CRASH – Coalition for Research and Action for Social Justice and Human Dignity, Finland Csalán Környezet- és Természetvédő Egyesület, Hungary Csermely Környezetvédelmi Egyesület, Hungary de-clic.ro, Romania Den Haag TTIP-vrij, The Netherlands Deutscher Naturschutzring (DNR), Germany Distretto di Economia Solidale Altro Tirreno, Italy Eco Ruralis – In support of peasant farming, Romania ECOAR))), Spain Galicia Ecocity, Greece Ecologistas en Acción, Spain Economistas Sin Fronteras, Spain EH TTIP/CETA Ez Kanpaina, Spain, Basque Country Ekologistak Martxan, Spain, Basque Country ELA (Basque Workers Solidarity), Spain, Basque Country Emmaus Aurinkotehdas, Finland End Ecocide On Earth, Austria Entrepueblos/entrepobles/entrepobos/herriarte, Spain Environmental Planning and Education Network, Hungary Estonian Society for Nature Conservation, Estonia European Anti Poverty Network Ireland, Ireland “Europe and We” Association, Bulgaria EWHN, European Work Hazards Network Denmark, Denmark Fairtrade Lëtzebuerg, Luxembourg Fairwatch, Italy Fauna Alapítvány, Hungary Fédération Artisans du Monde, France Federation of Independent Trade Unions in Education (FSIE), Romania Federation Syndicale Unitaire (FSU), France Fem Poble (Sant Pere de Ribes), Spain FENPROF, Portugal FIAN Deutschland, Germany FIAN Österreich, Austria FIAN Sweden, Sweden FÍS NUA, Ireland FNCTTFEL, Luxembourg Focus, association for sustainable development, Slovenia Fondation COPERNIC, France Forebyggelses-og Patientraadet.FPR, Denmark Forschungs- und Dokumentationszentrum Chile-Lateinamerika e.V., Germany Forum Umwelt & Entwicklung, Germany Foundation Bluelink, Bulgaria Foundation for the environment and agriculture, Bulgaria Frack Free Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom Fracking Free Bulgaria, Bulgaria Friends of the Earth Cyprus, Cyprus Friends of the Earth Finland – Maan ystävät ry, Finland Friends of the Earth Ireland, Ireland Friends of the Earth Malta, Malta Friends of the Earth Spain, Spain Friends of the Earth Sweden / Jordens Vänner, Sweden Friends of the Landless, Finland FUGEA, Belgium, Wallonia Fundació Ateneu Pere Mascaró, Spain, Illes Balears Fundacio nous horitzons, Spain Fundacion mundubat, Spain Fundacja Kuźnia Kampanierów, Poland Fundacja Strefa Zieleni, Poland Fundacja Zielone Światło / Green Light Foundation, Poland G3W-M3M, Belgium GAIA – Environmental Action and Intervention Group, Portugal GegenStrömung, Germany Gen-ethisches Netzwerk, Germany GENUK, Gemeinnütziges Netzwerk für Umweltkranke e.V., Germany Giligan Nature Conservation and Tradicion Preserve Association, Hungary GLOBAL 2000 – Friends of the Earth Austria, Austria Global Justice Now, United Kingdom GMB Trade Union, United Kingdom GMO Free Bulgaria, Bulgaria GRECS-Grup de Recerca Exclusió i Control Social-Universitat de Barcelona, Spain Green Economy Foundation, Ireland Green Foundation Ireland, Ireland Green institute, Greece Green Liberty, Latvia Greentourism Ecologic Association, Romania 4th Group of the United Left – Social movements and individuals, Slovenia Grupo espeleologico merindades, Spain Hazards Campaign, United Kingdom Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), Europe Health and Environment Justice Support, Germany Hungarian Network of Social Forum, Hungary Icv terres de lleida, Spain Initiativ Liewensufank- IBFAN Luxemburg, Luxemburg Initiative Wissenschaft gegen TTIP, Germany Initiativplattform TTIP stoppen Oberoesterreich, Austria INKOTA-netzwerk e.V., Germany Inspi-Ráció Egyesület, Hungary Institut za trajnostni razvoj – Institute for Sustrainable Development, Slovenia Institute of Global Responsibility (IGO), Poland Instytut Spraw Obywatelskich INSPRO, Poland International Presentation Association, Ireland International Small Business Alliance, Ireland Intersindical Valenciana, Spain País Valencià Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Ireland Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association, ICSA, Ireland Iuridicum Remedium, z. s., Czech Republic Joves d’Esquerra Verda, Spain Karl Marx Society, Hungary Kauno regiono energetinių įmonių jungtinė darbininkų profsąjunga, Lithuania Keep Ireland Fracking Free, Ireland Kehys – The Finnish NGDO Platform to the EU, Finland KMU gegen TTIP, Austria Közép-dunántúli Biokultúra Egyesület, Hungary, Europe Kulturrat Österreich, Austria La Casa Azul del Occidente, Spain Les Amis de la Terre, Belgium Letterbreen and Mullaghdun Community, United Kingdom Links Ecologisch Forum (LEF), Belgium Lithuanian Industry Trade Union Federation, Lithuania Lithuanian Seafarers’ Union, Lithuania Lithuanian Trade Union of Health Care Employees, Lithuania LobbyControl, Germany LRT darbuotojų profesinė sąjunga, Lithuania Luonto-Liitto / The Finnish Nature League, Finland Magosfa Foundation, Hungary Magyar Antifasiszta Liga, Hungary Mandate Trade Union, Ireland Marchas de la Dignidad-Madrid, Spain Marea Blanca de Ponent i Pirineus, Spain Catalonia Mareas ciudadanas, Spain May Day, Denmark Mediterranean Antinuclear Watch (MANW ), Greece MedSOS, Greece Meer Democratie, The Netherlands Mehr Demokratie, Germany Mercy International Association, Ireland Milieudefensie, The Netherlands MOC, Belgium Moral Cerdit Association, Hungary Mouvement Ecologique, Luxembourg Mouvement politique des objecteurs de croissance (mpOC), Belgium Mouvement Rural de Jeunesse Chretienne, France Mouvement Utopia, France Movement for Just Society (Gibanje za pravično družbo- GPD), Slovenia MTVSZ / Friends of the Earth Hungary, Hungary Mundubat, Spain Basque Country Nacion humana universal, Spain National Justice and Peace Network, United Kingdom Naturefriends Greece, Greece NaturFreunde Deutschlands, Germany New Wind Association, Finland No Transat !, Belgique / Belgium NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark, Denmark Non ao TTIP Galiza, Spain Galicia ÖBV – Via Campesina Austria, Austria ÖGB – Austrian Trade Union Federation, Austria OGM dangers, France Oikos – Cooperação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal OMAL, Spain Open Cages, Lithuania Organisation des producteurs de lait, France Padrines i Padrins Flautes de Mallorca, Spain Paz con Dignidad, Spain PCS, United Kingdom PEAH – Policies for Equitable Access to Health, Italy Pénzügyi Szervezetek Lakossági Figyelője Egyesület, Hungary People Before Profit, United Kingdom People’s Front, Hungary Peoples Movement, Ireland Physicians for Social Responsibility, Finland, Finland Plataforma Algarve Loivre de Petróleo, Portugal Plataforma Não ao Tratado Transatlântico, Portugal Plataforma no al TTIP Sevilla, Spain Plataforma pel Dret a Decidir del País Valencià, Spain País Valencià Plataforma STOP CETA Ponent i Pirineus, Spain Plateforme Stop CETA & TTIP, Luxembourg Platform Aarde Boer Consument, The Netherlands Polyán Egyesület, Hungary PowerShift e.V., Germany Presentation Interprovincial Justice Desk, Ireland and the UK Procés Constituent, Spain (Catalonia) Protestival, Slovenia Quercus – Associação Nacional de Conservação da Natureza, Portugal Quintessenz – Verein zur Wiederherstellung der Bürgerrechte im Informationszeitalter, Austria Red andaluza no al TTIP, Spain Réseau Semences Paysannes, France Rettet den Regenwald, Germany Right2Water Campaign Ireland, Ireland Skiftet, Sweden Slow Food Ireland, Ireland Slow Food Italy, Italy Social movement for Sustainable Development of Slovenia – TRS (Drštvo Gibanje TRS9), Slovenia Social Justice Ireland , Ireland Sociedad cultural gijonesa, Spain Solidary Bulgaria, Bulgaria SOM ENERGIA, Spain Som lo que Sembrem, Spain Catalonia STEI Intersindical, Spain Balearic Islands Stop CETA Alliance Ireland, Ireland STOP Desahucios Hernani, Spain Stop TAFTA Luxembourg, Luxembourg StopTTIP uk, United Kingdom STOP TTIP CETA TiSA Greece, Greece Stowarzyszenie Ekologiczne EKO-UNIA, Poland Students against TTIP UK, United Kingdom Susivienijimas ŽALI.LT, Lithuania Sustainable Water Network, Ireland SZAB, Hungary Technical Engineering and Electrical Union, Ireland The Barn Owl Foundation, Hungary The Danish Ecological Council, Denmark The Environmental Pillar, Ireland The Irish Food Writers’ Guild, Ireland The Irish Wildife Trust, Ireland Tid til fred – aktiv mod krig, Denmark Towards Sustainability Association, Hungary Trade Justice Movement, United Kingdom Trade union of Lithuanian food producers, Lithuania Trades Union Congress, United Kingdom transform! italia, Italy Transitie Nederland, The Netherlands Transnational Institute (TNI), The Netherlands Trócaire, Ireland TTIP and Agriculture coalition, The Netherlands TTIP Network Finland, Finland TTIPunfairHandelbar, Germany UAB Siauliu energetikos statyba profesine sajunga, Lithuania UFISC, France UGT (Unión General de Trabajadores), Spain UGT de Catalunya, Spain UGT LLEIDA, Spain – Lleida Catalonia ULC Union Luxembourgeoise des Consommateurs nouvelle a.s.b.l., Luxembourg Umanotera, Slovenia Umweltinstitut München e.V., Germany Unconditional Basic Income Europe, Belgium Unión Sindical Obrera (USO), Spain Union Syndicale Fédérale, Europe Union syndicale Solidaires, France UnternehmensGrün e.V., Germany USTEA (Unión de Sindicatos de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores en Andalucía), Spain Utopia, Slovakia Vaistinių darbuotojų profesinė sąjunga, Lithuania Védegylet Egyesület, Hungary Vida, Austria Visnyeszéplaki Faluvédő és Közművelődési Egyesület, Hungary Voice of Irish Concern for the Environment, Ireland Vrijschrift, The Netherlands War on Want, United Kingdom WEED – World Economy, Ecology & Development, Germany Wicklow (Eire)&Friends Against TTIP/CETA, Ireland Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Netherlands, The Netherlands World March of Women(WMW)- Cordination CATALONIA, Spain Catalonia wwoof italia, Italy XminY het actiefionds, The Netherlands Young Friends of the Earth Cyprus, Cyprus Za Zemiata, Friends of the Earth Bulgaria, Bulgaria ZDRUŽENJE ZA EKONOMSKO DEMOKRACIJO, Slovenia Zelena akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia, Croatia ZERO – Association for the Sustainability of the Earth System, Portugal Zivilcourage Innviertel, Austria Zöld Akció Egyesület (Green Action), Hungary Zold Volgyert Egyesulet, Hungary i Interactive map of the European initiative against TTIP and CETA ii TTIP and CETA free zones in Europe iii Information on the constitutional challenge against CETA at Germany’s constitutional court iv Constitutional challenge against CETA at the Federal Court of Canada v See, for example: Investment Court System in CETA to be judged by the ECJ vi See, for example: Civil society groups call on European governments to reject the CETA agreement; Joint Canadian Trade Union statement on CETA; Small and medium-sized enterprise from across Europe call on European governments to reject the CETA agreement vii See, for example: The Great CETA swindle; The EU-Canada Joint Interpretive Declaration/Instrument on the CETA; CETA to be signed unchanged, but less likely to be ratified after Wallonian resistance viii See, for example: CETA – Trading away democracy ixSee, for example: The Zombie ISDS. Rebranded as ICS, rights for corporations to sue states refuse to die x See, for example: “Labour rights”, in: Making sense of CETA xi See, for example: CETA and Public Services xii CETA without blinders: how cutting ‘trade costs and more’ will cause unemployment, inequality and welfare losses xiiiSee, for example: “The financial services chapter: Inflating bank profits at the expense of citizens”, in Making sense of CETA xiv See, for example: ACTA-CETA similarities; Trade and Privacy: Complicated bedfellows? How to achieve data protection-proof free trade agreements?; and “Patents, copyright and innovation” and “Canada-specific concerns”, in Making sense of CETA xv See, for example: “Limiting how and what government regulates” and “More cooperation for less regulation”, in Making sense of CETA; and CIEL letter to Minister-President Magnette xvi See, for example: “CETA’s threat to agricultural markets and food quality”, in Making sense of CETA xvii CETA, TTIP and the EU precautionary principle xviii For examples of specific amendments put forward by trade unions and environmental organisations, see: Protocol on Dispute Settlement and Institutional Mechanisms for the trade and sustainable development and trade and labour provisions; Understanding on the Provision of Public Services and Procurement; Protocol on Investment Protection; Understanding on the Precautionary Principle; BUND proposals for amendments on public services, the precautionary principle and the promotion of renewable energy