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Joint press release from Commission President Von der Leyen and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Canada-EU relations (07.03.2023)

Address by President von der Leyen at a joint session of the Canadian parliament (text and video) (07.03.2023)

Press release of 4th meeting of the Joint Cooperation Committee under the Strategic Partnership Agreement (10.03.2023)

Joint Cooperation Committee Report on the State of the EU- Canada Relationship 2020-2022 (10.03.2023)


EU-Canada Strategic Partnership Agreement

The "Strategic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Canada, of the other part" was signed in Brussels on 30 October 2016 and provisionally entered into force on 1 April 2017.

This agreement seeks to deepen political dialogue and cooperation between the EU and Canada and to strengthen relations in fields such as human rights, international peace and security, economic and sustainable development, justice, freedom and security.

Negotiations for the SPA launched in September 2011, alongside the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), with a view to replacing the outdated 1976 Framework Agreement for Commercial and Economic Cooperation. The Agreement was initialled in September 2014 and was adopted by the European Commission in April 2015.

EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)

The "Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada, of the one part, and the European Union and its Member States, of the other part" was signed in Brussels on 30 October 2016. The European Parliament gave its consent to the Agreement on 15 February 2017, which meant that certain provisions could provisionally enter into force from April 2017. The remaining provisions will only apply once the Agreement is ratified by EU Member States.

The agreement includes provisions on market access for goods, services, investment and government procurement, as well as on intellectual property rights, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, sustainable development, regulatory cooperation, mutual recognition, trade facilitation, cooperation on raw materials, dispute settlement and technical barriers to trade.

Envisaged EU - Canada Passenger Name Record (PNR) Agreement

The Court of Justice in its Opinion of 26 July 2017 decided that the envisaged EU-Canada Agreement between the EU and Canada signed on 25 June 2014 may not be concluded in its current form. Further to the authorization received by the Commission from the Council in December 2017, new PNR negotiations with Canada were launched in June 2018.

G-7

Canada concludes G-7 Presidency : Press release