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The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is a free trade agreement between Canada and the European Union.〔〔 The negotiations were concluded in August 2014. The agreement is to be approved by the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament. Whether approval by all EU member states is also necessary is disputed. If approved, the agreement would begin to come into effect in 2016 at the earliest, at which time about 98% of the tariffs between Canada and the EU would be eliminated. CETA is expected to surpass the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, the United States, and Mexico as Canada's largest cross-border agreement. ==History== CETA is Canada's biggest bilateral initiative since NAFTA. It was hatched as a result of a joint study "Assessing the Costs and Benefits of a Closer EU-Canada Economic Partnership"〔 which was released in October 2008. Officials announced the launch of negotiations on 6 May 2009 at the Canada-EU Summit in Prague.〔 This after the Canada-EU Summit in Ottawa on 18 March 2004 where leaders agreed to a framework for a new Canada-EU Trade and Investment Enhancement Agreement (TIEA). The TIEA was intended to move beyond traditional market access issues, to include areas such as trade and investment facilitation, competition, mutual recognition of professional qualifications, financial services, e-commerce, temporary entry, small- and medium-sized enterprises, sustainable development, and sharing science and technology. The TIEA was also to build on a Canada-EU regulatory co-operation framework for promoting bilateral co-operation on approaches to regulatory governance, advancing good regulatory practices and facilitating trade and investment. In addition to lowering barriers, the TIEA was meant to heighten Canadian and European interest in each other's markets.〔 The TIEA continued until 2006 when Canada and the EU decided to pause negotiations. This led to negotiations on a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), and this agreement will go beyond the TIEA toward an agreement with a much broader and more ambitious scope. An agreement in principle was signed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso on 18 October 2013. The negotiations were concluded on 1 August 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2012-08-06 )〕 The trade agreement was officially presented on 25 September 2014 by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso during an EU - Canada Summit at the Royal York Hotel in downtown Toronto.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2014-09-25 )〕 The Canada Europe Roundtable for Business (www.canada-Europe.org) has served as the parallel business process from the launch to the conclusion of the CETA negotiations. After it had been leaked by German public television on 14 August, the 1634 pages long Consolidated CETA text was published on the EU's official website on 26 September 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Consolidated CETA Text )〕 Completion, translation of the final text into 24 EU languages, and ratification is expected to take two years since the passage of the deal may require not just the approval of the European Parliament and the European Council but the individual 28 EU member states as well. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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