EU India Free Trade Agreement: Bad deal for Human Rights?
Channel: GreensEFA
Date: 2012-02-08

On 10th  February the next EU-India summit will take place in New Delhi. The Commission is pushing for the rapid conclusion of negotiations over the controversial EU-India Free Trade Agreement. But what would further "liberalisation" mean for India and its poorest people?

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The EU wants to severely tighten property rights legislation and enforcement. The foreseen provision goes even further than the ones of the WTO's TRIPS agreement. Firstly, this would have consequences for smallholders and their right to trade seeds. Secondly it would effect the production of generic drugs. At the moment India is the most important producer of life saving HIV AIDS medication. Strict rules in the Free Trade Agreement could curb production.........