Canadian Egg Marketing Agency Quota Regulations, 1986

4 (1) No producer shall market eggs in interprovincial or export trade unless

• (a) a federal quota, egg for processing quota, export market development quota, special temporary market requirement quota or vaccine quota has been allotted to the producer, on behalf of the Agency, by the Commodity Board of the province in which the producer’s egg production facilities are located;

• (b) the number of eggs marketed does not exceed the federal quota, egg for processing quota, export market development quota, special temporary market requirement quota or vaccine quota referred to in paragraph (a);

• (c) the producer complies with any subsisting rules of the Commodity Board referred to in paragraph (a) that the Commodity Board has been authorized by the Agency, under subsection 22(3) of the Act, to apply, in performing on behalf of the Agency the function of allotting and administering federal quotas, egg for processing quotas, export market development quotas, special temporary market requirement quotas and vaccine quotas;

• (d) in the case of eggs marketed by the producer under an egg for processing quota,

  • (i) all such eggs are sold by the producer to a processor at a price not less than the price of eggs of an equivalent variety, class, grade or size sold under the Agency’s Industrial Products Program,

  • (ii) all such eggs are sold by the producer to the processor pursuant to a contract that has been approved by the Agency,

  • (iii) the producer holds a seller’s licence and the processor holds a buyer’s licence issued pursuant to the Canadian Egg Licensing Regulations, 1987,

  • (iv) the receipts from the sale of all such eggs are pooled, and

  • (v) payment to the producer for the sale of such eggs is determined upon the pooled receipts less expenses incurred by the Agency in relation to all sales;

• (e) in the case of eggs marketed by the producer under an export market development quota,

  • (i) all such eggs are sold by the producer to a processor pursuant to a contract that has been approved by the Agency or pursuant to a contract between the Agency, producer and the processor of all such eggs,

  • (ii) all such eggs are produced by the producer pursuant to a laying hen possession quota issued by the Commodity Board of the province in which the producer’s designated facilities are located, and

  • (iii) the producer holds a seller’s licence and the processor holds a buyer’s licence issued pursuant to the Canadian Egg Licensing Regulations, 1987;

• (e.1) in the case of eggs marketed by the producer under a special temporary market requirement quota,

  • (i) all such eggs are sold by the producer to a processor at a price not less than the price of eggs of an equivalent variety, class, grade or size sold under the Agency’s Industrial Products Program, and

  • (ii) all such eggs are sold by the producer to the processor pursuant to a contract that has been approved by the Agency; and

• (f) in the case of eggs marketed by a producer under a vaccine quota

  • (i) all such eggs are sold by the producer to a vaccine manufacturer at a price not less than the price of eggs of an equivalent variety, class, grade or size sold under the Agency’s Industrial Products Program,

  • (ii) all such eggs are sold by the producer to the vaccine manufacturer under a contract that has been approved by the Agency, and

  • (iii) the producer holds a seller’s licence and the vaccine manufacturer holds a buyer’s licence issued under the Canadian Egg Licensing Regulations, 1987.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to eggs marketed under quota exemptions referred to in subsection 7(2).