Regulatory cooperation is both one of the most ambitious and contentious parts of the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and … cooperation in both the EU and the US minimise the concerns. For transatlantic regulatory cooperation to work, it must accept … incorporates comparisons with the relevant chapters of recent FTAs the US and the EU have concluded, so as to clarify the …

recognition clauses in trade agreements, case studies of the specific experience of the EU internal market, the Trans …-Tasman arrangement, and the MRA between the US and the EU of 1998, and an extensive review of the literature. …

It is striking that there is little or no mention in the TTIP debate so far of the US-EU Mutual Recognition Agreement … reaches two main conclusions: i) the US-EU MRA was only partially successful and only for some one-fifth of the export flows … EU’s attempt to ‘balance’ the negotiations in 1995 by bringing in three relatively competitive sectors did not work out …

from Convergence in US and EU Auto Regulations under TTIP -- About the CEPS-CTR Project: TTIP in the Balance -- Index. …