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Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

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Question for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

UIN 221495, tabled on 21 January 2015

Question

Mr David Nuttall
Conservative
Bury North
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which provisions under negotiation for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership are not a matter of EU competence and will require ratification by each EU member state.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answer

Matthew Hancock
Conservative
West Suffolk
Commons

Answered on

27 January 2015

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiating directives adopted by the Council call for an ambitious agreement which would include areas of Member State competence, such as parts of portfolio investment, aspects of taxation and protections against expropriation.

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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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