[All redactions in the document have been done in line with Art.4.1(b)] Ares(2021)4272041 - 05/10/2021 Ref. Ares(2021)6044578   30/06/2021 FINAL Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement – Art 25.4 Bilateral Dialogue on Raw Materials Agenda – November 16, 2018 Albert Borschette Congress Center Congress Center, Room 0003/4 Rue Froissart 36 – Brussels BRIEFING Public confidence and Closing Remarks & Next steps _____________________________________________________________________________________ Chairman – GOVERNMENT AND STAKEHOLDER SESSION 17:15 –18:15     Public confidence  Introduce the topic: Public acceptance of mining activities is becoming increasingly challenging. This challenge has the potential to affect negatively the supply of raw materials from responsible and ethical sources with the risk to affect the ambition to build sustainable and ethical industrial value chains. 17:15 – 18:00 Discussion of EU and Canadian challenges and priorities relating to public awareness of and confidence in the mining sector – member states and stakeholder experiences  Invite both stakeholders and MS to briefly share either successful or non-successful experiences/stories to promote the debate around the issue;  Ask what are their views on different roles for the different players (governments at different levels, industry, academia) 18:00– 18:15     Discussion of opportunities for collaboration  Ask if there is a room/benefit to tackle this challenge in the scope of this dialogue 18:15 – 18:30 Closing Remarks & Next steps

FINAL 18:15 – 18:20 Remarks from Stakeholders Representative  Invite                      do say a few final remarks on behalf of the Stakeholder Steering Group  Ask the stakeholders invited by NatRCan if they wish to add something 18:20 – 18:25 Remarks from Government of Canada representative 18:25 – 18:30 Remarks from European Commission representative   Inform that the outcome of the meeting will be sent in two weeks time  Advance the “2050 strategies required under the Paris Agreement: the role of raw materials and resource efficiency “ as a point for the agenda of next meeting