Regulatory Affairs

Tracking Federal Regulatory Initiatives

Highlights:

Ministerial Orders, Approved

• Food inspection fees orders amended on promulgation of Canadian Food Inspection Act
• Apparel and other Textile General Import Permit 106 amended
  
  

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  Ministerial Orders Approved	Statutory Authority & Regulatory Plan Listing
  Order Amending Certain Fees Orders 1997-1 (SOR/97-169) The Order sets fees or charges to be paid by persons or classes of persons for inspection or other services currently provided by the Food Production and Inspection Branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The amendments are required as a result of the promulgation of the Act establishing the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (Bill C-60). More specifically, the Order modifies the following Ministerial fees orders: National Animal Health Program Cost Recovery Fees Order, FPI Branch Overtime Fees Order; Egg and Processed Egg Fees Order; Livestock Carcass Grading Fees Order; Seeds Fees Order; Dairy Products Fees Order; Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Fees Order; Feeds Fees Order; and Fertilizers Fees Order. The revised Orders come into effect on April 1, 1997, the day the Canadian Food Inspection Agency Act comes into effect. Contact:Alan Goldrosen, Food Production and Inspection Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Camelot Court, Room 1307, 59 Camelot Drive, Nepean, Ontario, K1A 0Y9. Tel: 613-952-8000; Fax: 613-228-6638.	Financial Administration Act, paragraphs19(1)(b) and 19.1(b)   Not included in Regulatory Plan   To be published in Canada Gazette April 16, 1997
  General Import Permit No. 106 - Apparel Goods or Other Textile Articles, amendment (SOR/97-170) The amendment reintroduces a general exemption for apparel goods or other textile articles that, for each importation, have a value for duty of not more than $500 or, where the value for duty is greater than $500, do not comprise more than 16 articles. The amendment, which is not being prepublished in the Canada Gazette Part I, also clarifies situations under which the General Import Permit (GIP) may be used. GIP 106 governs imports of apparel goods or other textile articles described in items 29, 31, 32, 34, 37, 39 to 47, 49 to 52, 58, 85, 86.2 and 86.3 of the Import Control List. The amended permit comes into force on April 3, 1997. Contact:Louis Gionet, International Trade, Trade Controls Policy Division (EPMT), Export and Import Controls Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, P.O. Box 481, Station "A", Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 9K6. Tel: 613-995-8367; Fax: 613-995-5137.	Export and Import Permits Act, subsections 8(1.1) and 10(1)   Not included in Regulatory Plan   To be published in Canada Gazette April 16, 1997

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