{"id":4708,"date":"2016-03-01T13:09:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T12:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T12:24:09","slug":"epsu-ceta-is-a-bad-deal-for-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/epsu-ceta-is-a-bad-deal-for-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"EPSU: CETA is a bad deal for citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"g-cols wpb_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column us_custom_432d3f53\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h4><em><strong>EPSU calls for the rejection of CETA because it\u2019s a bad deal for citizens<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Our concerns are as follows :<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Public services are included CETA. The European Parliament has recently made firm recommendations to the Commission that public services be excluded in their entirety from bilateral trade deals, irrespective of how those services are financed and organised. Yet the patchwork of protections for public services offered by CETA does not do the job. No fewer than 11 EU member States have committed long-term care such as residential care for the elderly in CETA. Such commitments could stand in the way of measures to protect the healthcare and long-term care sector against the asset-stripping strategies of financial investors that led to the collapse of Southern Cross in the UK.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0CETA is the first EU agreement with a \u2018negative list\u2019 approach for services<br \/>\ncommitments. This means that all services will be subject to market liberalisation unless an explicit exception is made and marks a radical departure from the positive lists used so far in EU trade deals. The negative list approach thus expands the scope of trade agreements and makes it more difficult to anticipate and regulate new services that emerge in the future. CETA\u2019s \u2018standstill\u2019 and \u2018ratchet\u2019 mechanisms will then serve to lock-in present and future liberalisation, so limiting the future efforts by governments to extend regulation or renationalise services, even when past liberalisations have proven to be failures and when it is in the public interest to do so. Such provisions stifle the development of good governance and local responsibility, especially for local and regional governments. We remind MEPs of the European Parliament\u2019s rejection of standstill and ratchet clauses in its recommendations on the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), precisely because they undermine democratic processes and accountability.<\/li>\n<li>CETA may restrict universal service obligations being introduced in public utilities<br \/>\nsuch as post, electricity, telecoms and urban transport \u2013 obligations which guarantee citizens universal access to basic services at affordable prices. CETA will also limit the freedom of public utilities to produce and distribute energy according to public interest goals, for example, by supporting renewables to combat climate change. Very few Member States have explicitly reserved their right to adopt certain measures with regards to the production of electricity.<\/li>\n<li>CETA\u00a0contains far-reaching investment protection provisions. While CETA\u2019s revised investor protection mechanism (Investment Court System \u2013 or ICS) is an improvement on the toxic and much-criticised Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), it nonetheless fails to meet the mark. Under ICS, investors will still be granted special rights over other groups in society to sue governments for policies that threaten their profits. This right will also apply to the many US companies that have operations in Canada. Previous attempts to regulate public services have already been targets of ISDS claims by private providers, and CETA threatens to continue this trend \u2013 rendering sectors including education, water, health, social welfare and pensions vulnerable to all kinds of investor attacks.<\/li>\n<li>CETA is weak on human rights, including workers\u2019 rights. Not only does CETA not contain a clause saying that the respect for human rights is an essential element of the agreement, it does not include binding and enforceable measures to ensure ILO core labour standards are respected in its sustainable development chapter. Furthermore, the public procurement provisions do not include obligations to respect labour and environmental standards nor promote the use of social and environmental criteria in public tenders.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Read<a href=\"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20160301-TiSA-EPSU-concerns-CETA.pdf\"> the\u00a0EPSU\u00a0call<\/a> concerning CETA and how it is a bad deal for citizens.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_large\"><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_medium with_line width_50 thick_3 style_solid color_primary align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPSU calls for the rejection of CETA because it\u2019s a bad deal for citizens and other concerns related to protection of public service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"dossier-special":[],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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