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United States | Brussels, 14 July 2016

EU negotiating texts in TTIP

The TTIP negotiations were launched in 2013 and ended without conclusion at the end of 2016. A Council decision of 15 April 2019 states that the negotiating directives for the TTIP are obsolete and no longer relevant.

A final agreement would have 24 chapters, grouped together in 4 parts:

TTIP Reader's guide Textual proposals are the European Union's initial proposals for legal text on topics in TTIP . They are tabled for discussion with the US in negotiating rounds. The actual text in the final agreement will be a result of negotiations between the EU and US. Position papers set out and describe the European Union's general approach on topic in the TTIP negotiations. They are tabled for discussion with the US in negotiating rounds. Reader's guide

Glossary

The European Commission is negotiating TTIP as openly as possible.

And as part of our latest transparency initiative, we're publishing:

2-page factsheets, in plain language

negotiating texts we've given US negotiators: EU textual proposals on parts 2 and 3 of the TTIP – these set out how we'd want a final deal to read, line by line EU position papers what we want to achieve in a chapter.



We will publish further texts as they become available.

We will make the whole text of the agreement public once negotiations have been concluded – well in advance of its signature and ratification.

For the text of a recently completed EU trade agreement, see the text of the EU-Canada Free Trade Agreement (CETA).

EU negotiating texts, chapter by chapter

Part 4: Institutional Institutional, General and Final Provisions Textual proposal EU Proposal for Institutional, General and Final Provisions NEW



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