This Final Report for the EU-Canada Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) on the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (hereafter “the CETA,” “CETA,” or “the Agreement”) provides a comprehensive assessment of the potential impacts of trade liberalisation under CETA. The impact analysis assesses the economic, social and environmental impacts in Canada and the European Union, in three main sectors, sixteen sub-sectors and seven cross-cutting issues. It also assesses the potential impacts of CETA on the US, Mexico and other countries and regions, including a number of developing countries and the EU OCTs of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and Greenland. There are nine main sections of this report. Section one provides background information on the CETA negotiations, and on the EC’s Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) programme. Section two outlines the methodology used in carrying out the SIA study. Sections three to seven contain the core of this report, namely, an assessment of the potential economic, social and environmental impacts of trade liberalisation under the CETA. The macro-economic assessment is included in section three and discusses the main macro-economic impacts on the EU and Canada as predicted by the CGE model. The sectoral assessments are included in sections four through six and provide individual impact assessments for 3 sectors and 16 sub-sectors: the agricultural and processed agricultural products (PAPs) and fisheries sector (and the sub-sectors of (i) grains and oilseeds, (ii) beef and pork, (iii) dairy, (iv) beverages, (v) other PAPs, and (vi) fisheries); the industrial products sector (and the sub-sectors of (vii) mining and manufacturing of metal, (viii) oil, (ix) coal, (x) forest-based industries, (xi) automotive and other transport equipment and (xii) textiles); and the services sector (and the sub-sectors of (xiii) transportation, (xiv) financial, (xv) telecommunication, and (xvi) other business services). Section seven assesses cross-cutting issues and provides individual impact assessments for 7 issues: government procurement, intellectual property rights, investment, trade facilitation, labour mobility, free circulation of goods, and competition policy. Section eight lists the policy recommendations, also called flanking measures, based on the results of the sustainability analyses. These measures cover both enhancement and preventative/mitigation measures, i.e. measures needed to reinforce key positive sustainability impacts and to prevent or at least mitigate major negative sustainability impacts. Section nine provides a Conclusion to the SIA report. trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2011/september/tradoc_148201.pdf
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