CETA and the environment: A gold standard for the planet or for big business?

3 Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the provisional application of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada of the one part, and the European Union and its Member States, of the other part. [...] The latest of such reports is the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association on his mission to the Republic of Korea of 16 June 2016 (A/HRC/32/36/Add.2), available at (retrieved 28 October 2016) a study . [...] Respect for domestic courts and the EU legal order In the European Parliament‘s TTIP resolution, the Commission was requested to ensure that the 63 ‗jurisdiction of courts of the EU and of the Member States is respected‘. [...] However, the CETA ICS fails to protect the powers of the courts of the Member States and of the EU. [...] The rule of law should be the first and foremost consideration of the Commission, and it is disappointing to see only cosmetic changes being introduced in this sense, and no request for an Opinion made by the Commission to at least get a preliminary check by the European Court of Justice on the legality of the system.