TISA: Threatening offensive secret
A series of agreements ahead in these times, among them: Transatlantic Trade and Investment (known as TTIP), secretly negotiated between the United States and the European Union; Trans-Pacific (English, TPP) Economic Partnership, dealing Australia, Brunei, Chile, United States, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, Canada and Mexico, and trade in services (TISA) , who drafted 51 countries and generalities such as promoting international liberalization of banking and transport, and the opening of health services and telecommunications are known.
Discussion of the rules of this agreement, at present focus on trade in services now provided by governments, the International Network Utilities (PSI), based in Paris. This organization seeks to track the points of coincidence of rules adopted secretly adopted delegations.
The government representatives discussing those regulations present the agreement as a driver of economies and announced that in the third quarter of 2015 will have a draft for signature, according to the claims and purposes they have set -of between states redactores- shelter companies who hold two-thirds of global trade in the sector.
To achieve its goals, the editors made a policy renewal that preserves rights of capital and transnational companies, generating a legal gap that left defenseless majorities to minimize the role of states, which is evident to run any form Acting participatory, representative and its instruments such as the referendum or, in other cases, revocation of mandates democracy. This new profile is intended to give the philosophy and practice of the State aims to benefit economic groups can sum powers in the world arena until they become semi-immune.
All agreements and treaties on the discussion -and it known writing standards allow for this contemplated TISA and key issues of everyday life and our existence: employment, transportation, communication, medical records, legal services, grants, education , health, waste, water, energy distribution, digital trade and also involve the almost total deregulation of financial markets.
The rules of the agreement also consider reforms that limit and restrict workers' rights while reducing the obligations of those who offer security and privacy in handling the data transmitted through computer circuits.
With regard to financial services, Professor Jane Kelsey, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, it indicates that governments who sign the agreements of TISA, "is expected to establish and expand their current levels of financial deregulation , lose the right to demand information for local finance, experience pressures facing the authorization of potentially toxic products and insurance risk being denounced if they adopt measures to prevent or respond to other crises. "
TISA rules contain certain clauses that the signatories are obliged to keep secret for five years after the agreement signed, giving way to something that falls into the category in principle of supranational government.
It does not seem too difficult to discover the purpose of a treaty of this kind: what is at issue is to control and curtail the legislative freedom of states, and public institutions in general, any type of regulation that impedes the transnational enterprises of services. By way of example, the rules that are written oblige governments to inform their peers about the projects they want to implement -equivalent to inform investors, present or future-. From another angle: the states to other member states exhibit plans and regulations inside expect to be collated to determine whether they are consistent with those approved by the TISA. The comments came immediately: "A tailor made for corporations and large economies." "A new mechanism to shape markets and consumers."
Other proposed regulations relate to the extension of conventions contained in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), 1994, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) to extend the multilateral system to the service sector. One more, and no less important, is that the Coalition of Service Industries US (CSI) will preserve their privileges in trade negotiations through the group www.teamtisa.org/index.php/about-team- Tisa / coalition-members, where the Microsoft, JP Morgan Chase, CHUBB, Deloitte, UPS, Google, Verizon, Walmart, Walt Disney and IBM corporations, among others.
The formalization of TISA, moreover, has the support of the Association of Financial Markets and Securities Industry USA, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the American Insurance Association, Visa and Bloomberg Financial Information Services.
Despite the similar advertising measures in various geographies, which seek to introduce into the public consciousness the fallacy that public service equals failure and that private companies are only effective managers, does not escape the realization that putting the economy and finance private ownership society prevents indispensable utility and there are projects designed to balance between social classes. Transnational imposed treaties, agreements and conventions to states are ever thinking of something different to the rate of gain-in a way that bypasses any equitable redistribution of benefits-even if it should be deprived of rights to part of the people.
In terms of questions you can ask if there have been companies that sue states. The immediate claim is supported by the claim brought by the US against Uruguay Phillip Morris, 2000 million due to ads on packets of snuff; Vattenfall against Germany for 3.7 billion dollars, to shut down its nuclear power plants, or Lone Pina Canada for 250 million Canadian dollars to the moratorium on "fracking" the government of Quebec.
A question that may follow another: no judgments of conviction against states? Ecuador was sentenced to pay 2.3 billion dollars to Occidental Petroleum for the construction of a well in the Amazon and Libya paid $ 900 million in "lost profits" of a tourist project in which they had invested $ 5 million.
Serve the previous cases warning about what may occur with the implementation of the regulation in question.
Finally, reference to one of the circles of what is commonly called periphery (the capitalist world) evoke the letter from MEP and secretary general of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, the European Commission on the negotiation of TISA: "What do you think the EC on the documents published? believes the EC that this treaty directly undermines the fundamental rights of European citizens and, above all, undermines the national sovereignty of member states? "
