His report on New Generation Trade Agreements opposed the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system, which empowers transnational corporations to sue governments for lost profits from new laws to protect public health and the environment. It judged ISDS as unnecessary for trade deals between mature democracies and economies which have established legal systems to protect investors and balance this alongside the public interest. The report was instrumental in replacing ISDS with the more democratically accountable Investor Court System (ICS) in the EU-Canada free trade agreement CETA (Comprehensive Economic Trading Area).