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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door brother paul

ik ben zeker dat in het ceta akkoord je een kankerverwekkend product zonder procedure van de markt kunt halen, staat hier al ergens te lezen die clausule

A second threat to European and Canadian protection standards lies in chapter 21 on regulatory cooperation. With the aim of reducing differences in regulation, it establishes a series of dialogues, consultations and a “Regulatory Cooperation Forum” (article 21.6). Similar ‘voluntary’ dialogues and fora between the United States and the European Union have already had the effect of lowering standards, to the detriment of environmental and health protections.
Take electronic waste for instance. In 1998, a proposal from the European Commission backed by the European Parliament included plans to ban hazardous substances in electronic waste. Through a dialogue process bearing all the traits of regulatory cooperation under CETA, US officials and business lobbyists attacked the proposal, referring to its much vaunted negative impacts on transatlantic trade. In 2002, when the waste directive was adopted, the hazardous substances part had been significantly weakened. It took a court case by the Danish government and the European Parliament to finally take one substance which was to be banned in the original proposal (deca-BDE) off the EU market – ten years after it was first proposed. This is the power of regulatory cooperation. (For this and other examples from the EU-US context, see the report Dangerous Regulatory Duet and the analysis of CETA’s regulatory cooperation chapter in Making Sense of CETA.)

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