The CETA is the free trade agreement, not yet in force, between the European Union and Canada. On September 26, 2014, the Canadian government and Herman Van Rompuy, the President of the European Council, officially reveal the CETA content.
On the chapter X “public procurement”, the article IV-6 strictly forbids civil offsets: “with regard to covered procurement, a Party, including its procuring entities, shall not seek, take account of, impose or enforce any offset”. Indeed, the article III-1 of the same chapter excludes this ban for essential security interests: “nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prevent a Party from taking any action or not disclosing any information that it considers necessary for the protection of its essential security interests relating to the procurement of arms, ammunition or war material, or to procurement indispensable for national security or for national defence purposes”.