Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999

Marginal note:Amendment of List

• 112 (1) The Minister shall add a living organism to the Domestic Substances List within 120 days after the following conditions are met:

  • (a) the Minister has been provided with information in respect of the living organism under section 106 or 107 and any additional information or test results required under subsection 109(1);

  • (b) the Ministers are satisfied that the living organism has been manufactured in or imported into Canada by the person who provided the information prescribed for the purpose of this paragraph;

  • (c) the period for assessing the information under section 108 has expired; and

  • (d) no conditions specified under paragraph 109(1)(a) in respect of the living organism remain in effect.

• Marginal note:Amendment of List

  (2) Where the Minister adds a living organism to the Domestic Substances List and subsequently learns that the living organism was not manufactured or imported as described in subsection (1), the Minister shall delete the living organism from the List.

• Marginal note:Significant new activity

  (3) If a living organism is on the Domestic Substances List or is to be added to the List under subsection (1) or 105.1(1), the Minister may amend the List to indicate that subsection 106(3) applies with respect to the living organism.

• Marginal note:Contents of amendment

  (4) An amendment referred to in subsection (3)

  • (a) shall indicate, by inclusion or exclusion, the significant new activities in relation to the living organism with respect to which subsection 106(3) is to apply and, if regulations in respect of those significant new activities are not made under paragraphs 114(1)(c), (d) and (g), specify the information to be provided to the Minister under that subsection, the date on or before which it is to be provided and the period within which it is to be assessed under section 108; and

  • (b) may specify for the purpose of subsection 112.1(2) classes of persons who are not required to be notified under subsection 112.1(1) with respect to the living organism.

• Marginal note:Subsequent amendment

  (5) The Minister may amend the Domestic Substances List in respect of a living organism with respect to which subsection 106(3) applies

  • (a) to vary the significant new activities in relation to the living organism or vary the information to be provided to the Minister under subsection 106(3), the date on or before which that information is to be provided or the period within which it is to be assessed under section 108;

  • (b) to indicate that subsection 106(3) no longer applies;

  • (c) to specify classes of persons for the purpose of subsection 112.1(2), if no such classes are specified with respect to the living organism;

  • (d) to vary the classes of persons, if any, that are specified for the purpose of subsection 112.1(2); or

  • (e) to delete any class of persons that is specified for the purpose of subsection 112.1(2).