At the December 2002 Canada-EU Summit in Ottawa, leaders issued a joint statement instructing their trade ministers to design a forward-looking, wide-ranging bilateral trade and investment enhancement agreement. On 18 March 2004, at the Canada-EU Summit in Ottawa, leaders agreed to a framework for a Trade and Investment Enhancement Agreement (TIEA). In the same vein, in December 2004 the government of Canada and the EU Commission adopted a voluntary framework for regulatory cooperation.

The first round of negotiations towards the TIEA took place in Brussels in May 2005. Three rounds of negotiation had taken place by end-2005.

Documents relating to the negotiations
24 November 2005	Canada-EU Videoconference Summit. Joint Statement
19 June 2005	Niagara-on-the-Lake. Joint Summit Declaration EU-Canada Summit
17 May 2005	First round of negotiations
21 December 2004	Canada-EU regulatory cooperation framework
18 March 2004	Canada-European Union Trade and Investment Enhancement Agreement: Framework for the Agreement
18 March 2004	Declaration on Canada-EU Relations
03 March 2004	European Commission agrees design of future EU-Canada Trade and Investment Enhancement Agreement
28 May 2003	Athens, Greece: Joint Communiqué
28 May 2003	Progress report on the EU-Canada Trade and Investment Agreement
19 December 2002	Ottawa: Joint Statement by Canada and the European Union
Source: Delegation of the European Commission to Canada; Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada

• European Union (EU)
• Delegation of the European Commission to Canada
• Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada