CEEV welcomes the Council signature of CETA and urges the European Parliament to give its consent fo
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2016-11-08 10:24 Source£º
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After 7 years of comprehensive negotiations, CETA, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the EU has been signed by the Council today. The EU wine industry welcomes this positive step and urges the European Parliament to give its consent for an effective implementation of the agreement in early 2017.
With more than € 780 million EU wine export in 2015, Canada is a priority market for the wine sector. In spite of its good export performance to the Canadian market, European wine continues to face a number of trade barriers and discriminatory treatments in Canada. CETA provides a unique opportunity to put an end to these practices and level the playing field for EU wine, offering further growth prospect for their exports to Canada.
¡°The EU wine sector expects several benefits from CETA. In addition to removing customs duties and strengthening the protection of EU wines Geographical Indications, CETA will provide new tools to tackle unfair practices discriminating EU imports adopted by the Canadian Provinces¡± said Jean-Marie Barill¨¨re, President of CEEV. ¡°Once implemented, CETA will increase and improve EU wine exports, with a net gain in growth and jobs for the European economy.¡±
The European Parliament must give its consent before CETA can be provisionally implemented. In face of strong competition from the USA (the first wine supplier of Canada in 2014, for the first time), Australia and Chile, CEEV urges the Parliament to give green light to the agreement.
¡°It is critical that CETA be implemented in early 2017. In a context of extreme worldwide competition, it will be difficult to maintain our impressive export figures to Canada as our competitors are going faster than the EU in negotiating and implementing trade agreements¡± said Ignacio S¨¢nchez Recarte, Secretary General of CEEV.