JEFTA is the abbreviation for Japan-EU Free Trade Agreement, the planned economic partnership between the EU and Japan. Like all other EU trade agreements, JEFTA follows a clear corporate agenda: Companies get many special rights with JEFTA, but no obligations. Social and environmental standards play only a secondary role, if at all. JEFTA is the world's largest trade zone. Like CETA and TTIP, JEFTA was negotiated in secret. The controversial parallel justice system, which allows companies to sue states for lost profits, is to be enforced by means of a separately negotiated investment protection agreement (‘JEFTA II’). As a result, the EU is undermining the right of veto of national parliaments and can adopt the agreement in its current form on its own. The present agreement already establishes a kind of anti-democratic special rights for corporate lobbyists: Regulatory cooperation gives them the right to participate in legislation even before parliaments are involved. JEFTA thus serves to further develop and protect the rights of corporations – at the expense of workers, farmers, citizens and the environment in the EU and Japan.