The European Commission is consulting the public in the EU on a possible approach to investment protection and ISDS [Investor-to-state dispute settlement] in the [Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership] TTIP. The proposed approach contains a series of innovative elements that the EU proposes using as the basis for the TTIP negotiations. The key issue on which we are consulting is whether the EU’s proposed approach for TTIP achieves the right balance between protecting investors and safeguarding the EU's right and ability to regulate in the public interest.