19/01/2017 (Agence Europe) – The vote by the European Parliament’s international trade committee on whether to recommend that Parliament consent to provisional implementation of the EU-Canada free trade agreement is still planned for 24 January, we learned on Thursday 19 January. It will be followed by a vote in plenary on 2 February. Ratification by the European and Canadian parliaments of the CETA deal will make it possible for the agreement signed by the EU and Canada on 30 October to come into force on a provisional basis. In an opinion adopted on 8 December 2016, Parliament’s employment and social affairs committee called for CETA not to be ratified (see EUROPE 11685). In an opinion adopted on 12 January, the Parliament’s environment, public health and food safety committee called for ratification of CETA (see EUROPE 11702). The CETA trade agreement and interpretative instrument were published in the EU Official Journal on 14 January in all the EU’s official languages. (EH)