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Conference on the Canada – EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement

October 31 and November 1, 2014
Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (room 100)
New Chancellor Day Hall

McGill's Faculty of Law was pleased to host a two-day conference on the Canada – European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

The first day of the conference focused on Regional Trade Agreements and EU Trade Policy.

The second day was devoted to investment law and investor state dispute settlement.

Update: The McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy (JSDLP) sat down with three experts at the CETA conference to ask questions on the new Canada-Europe free trade agreement, and get their perspectives on what impacts the treaty would have on the environment. .

Presentations

Some of the participants have graciously shared their presentation files with us:

Office presentation icon Bungenberg, Marc: "Regional Trade Agreements and EU Trade Policy: CETA and Public Procurement"

PDF icon Deimann, Sven: "The Significant of Chapter 21 CETA for rail technology-related procurement"

File Gaffney, John: "Investor-State Dispute Settlement in CETA - A European Perspective"

PDF icon Gantz, David: "CETA's Legal and Political Implications for the TTIP"

PDF icon Hefeker, Carsten: "The Political Economy of CETA: A European Perspective"

PDF icon Lavranos, Nikos: "The lack of an FET-standard in CETA"

File Leblond, Patrick: "CETA and Financial Services"

File Mann, Howard: "Salient Legal Issues in the Substantive Standard of Protection in CETA"

File Prince, Hervé: "The Elimination of Regulatory Barriers to Trade and the CETA: The case of SPS and TBT measures"

Office presentation icon Viju, Crina "CETA and Regulatory Cooperation: SPS and TBT"

Day 1 - Canada EU Strategic Dialogue - Conference on Regional Trade Agreements and EU Trade Policy

Friday, October 31: This is the second of a series of three conferences, held in Lausanne, Montréal and Brussels, designed to review the many aspects of the CETA text under the aegis of the SSHRC sponsored Canada – EU Strategic Dialogue. These meetings are designed to enhance understanding of European trade objectives in Canada and of Canadian trade objectives in Europe. (Organized by Marc Bungenberg, Armand de Mestral, Kim van der Borght and Andreas Ziegler).

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File Program - Day 1 [.docx]

9:00 Welcome
9:05 – 10:30 Session 1: What Was Achieved, How They Got There, How This Fits into the Bigger Picture? Insider Perspectives
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: Economic, Political and Legal Analysis of the CETA Text
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (Atrium)
13:30 – 14:15 Session 3: Procurement
14:15 – 15:00 Session 4: Services, Including Financial Services; Movement of Professional Persons
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:15 Session 5: Regulatory Cooperation
16:15 – 17:00 Session 6: Taxation Questions
17:00 – 17:30 Wrap-up Session
17:30 – 19:00 Cocktail – Atrium (Sponsored by Norton Rose Fulbright, Montreal)

Day 2 - McGill-Queen Mary University of London Conference
Investment and Investor-State Dispute Settlement in the CETA

Saturday, November 1: One of the most interesting sections of CETA is the investment chapter, which aims to clarify key substantive provisions commonly found in investment treaties, including the fair and equitable treatment provision, in addition to including detailed procedural provisions delineating with more specificity the characteristics of arbitrators and their powers in resolving cases. Participants in a closing roundtable will discuss the implications of CETA, one of three investment agreements – the other two being the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – that will shape world investment and trade in the twenty-first century. (Organized by Pierre Bienvenu, and Andrea K. Bjorklund).

File CETA Day 2 [.docx]

8:30 – 9:00 Coffee
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome / Opening the Proceedings of the Day
9:15 - 10:45 Session 1: Policy Considerations on Investment Protection, including Substantive Standards of Protection and ISDS: The Negotiators’ Perspectives
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 -12:45 Session 2: Salient Legal Issues in the Substantive Standards of Protection in CETA
12:45 - 14:00 Luncheon with Keynote Speaker
14:00 - 15:30 Session 3: Salient Legal Issues in Investor-State Dispute Settlement in CETA
15:30 - 16:00 Tea
16:00 - 17:00 Session 4: Roundtable: Prognosis for CETA and Concluding Remarks

The 2014 CETA conference was organized in cooperation with

  • EU Centres of Excellence Université de Montréal – McGill – Brussels
  • Ï㽶ÊÓƵ's Faculty of Law
  • L. Yves Fortier Chair in International Arbitration and International Commercial Law
  • Private Justice and Rule of Law Research Group
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Université de Lausanne
  • Universitat Siegen
  • Norton Rose Fulbright, Montreal
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