"Today, Friday [1]4 October 2016, 11:00am CEST, WikiLeaks releases new secret documents from the controversial Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) currently being negotiated by the US, EU and 22 other countries that account for over 2/3rds of global GDP," WikiLeaks said on its website.
The previous leak was released on September 15 and revealed that most of the TiSA documents propose to relax the European Union's data protection standards as well introducing new lobbying regulations, according to critics. WikiLeaks said the documents showed that TiSA serves as a tool for securing corporate interests, as well as unveiling disagreements between the United States and the European Union on most-favored nation treatment and domestic regulation.
In May, WikiLeaks published the first batch of documents related to confidential 23-way talks on TiSA. The TiSA treaty is aimed at liberalizing the trade in services among the United States, the European Union and other countries accounting for nearly three-quarters of global services.
The trade in services pact has been under discussion since 2013. Over a dozen of rounds of talks have since been concluded, with no deadline for ending the negotiations in sight, according to the European Commission.
