Oil & natural gas industry positions on potential energy Issues in TTIP

The American Petroleum Institute (API) and the International Oil and Gas Producers Association (IOGP) have agreed on a set of policy principles outlined in this document in order to provide the EU and US negotiators of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with our views on a set of issues that have emerged for potential inclusion in TTIP [1]. This paper is a follow-up to our July 2014 policy position paper, in which we shared our positions on a set of overarching principles for TTIP, as agreed by the oil and gas industry on both sides of the Atlantic.