Comparative study of enabling environments for associations and businesses 2015, para. 93
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Businesses may also have privileged access to law-making procedures and trade treaty negotiations. Negotiations for the multilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, for example, were allegedly conducted in secret, but an advisory committee of large United States-based multinational corporations was consulted on a draft of the agreement.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
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Special Procedures' report
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Governance & Rule of Law
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2015
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Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the UNGA (2015), A/70/266, para. 93.