Agenda: Meeting of the CETA committee on agriculture and Canada-European Union agriculture dialogue

December 3-4, 2025 (Ottawa and by videoconference)

CETA committee on agriculture

1. Welcome, introduction and committee business
2. Leveraging trade opportunities under CETA
   • 2.1. Review of bilateral trade performance – joint
   • 2.2. Follow-up to Canada-EU Leaders’ Summit and statement – joint
3. Trade and market access matters
   • 3.1. Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) cheese tariff rate quotas (TRQs) – EU lead
   • 3.2. European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) – Canada lead
   • 3.3. Reciprocity under the EU Vision for Agriculture and Food (pesticides, animal welfare) – Canada lead
   • 3.4. Canada milk pricing – EU lead
   • 3.5. Ethanol imports from Canada – EU lead
4. Any other business
   • 4.1. Beef and pork tariff rate quotas (TRQs) – Canada lead
   • 4.2. Action items – including reporting to CETA Committee on Trade in Goods and time and venue of next meeting – joint

Canada-European Union agriculture dialogue

1. Update on Canada and EU’s international trade negotiations - joint
2. EU Vision for Agriculture and Food – EU lead
3. European Union Database for Biofuels – Canada lead
4. European Union’s New Genomic Techniques Regulation (NGTs) – Canada lead
5. Equivalency agreement for organic products – Canada lead
6. Canada–EU Dialogues on Sustainable Agriculture – joint