Such policy developments include Europe 2020 (a strategy for growth and jobs); the Resource Efficiency Roadmap; the Rural Development Policy; the Industrial Policy; the Climate and Energy Package with its 2020 targets; the Plant Health and Reproductive Materials Strategy; and the Biodiversity and Bioeconomy strategies (European Commission, 2013a). The goal of the TTIP is to remove trade barriers from a wide range of economic sectors and to make it easier to trade goods and services between the two trading blocs. Negotiations began in July 2013 and are expected to continue through 2014.