The citizen complaint provisions are also quite weak. Again, only a person of a party can challenge its own government's implementation, it is only by written submissions, and the TPP party is only required to respond “in a timely manner”. Once that response takes place, there's no opportunity for the citizen to follow up. It would take a TPP party to take up the complaint and request that the environment committee continue to review it.
Our analysis here is that the environment chapter doesn't protect the environment, it won't likely be enforced, and it's not nearly strong enough to counteract the environmentally detrimental provisions elsewhere in the TPP.
Thank you.