Heavy-duty Vehicle and Engine Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulations

Marginal note:Exemption

• 17 (1) A company may elect, for a given model year, to not comply with the CO₂ emission standards set out in subsection 26(1) or 27(1), as the case may be, for its tractors and vocational vehicles and, in the case of tractors and vocational vehicles covered by an EPA certificate, the company may elect to not comply with subsection 13(4), if the following conditions are met:

  • (a) it manufactured or imported in 2011 for sale in Canada in total less than 200 tractors and vocational vehicles;

  • (b) its average number of tractors and vocational vehicles manufactured or imported for sale in Canada for the three most recent consecutive model years preceding the model year is less than 200; and

  • (c) it reports this election in its end of model year report in accordance with section 48.

• Marginal note:CO₂ emission credit system

  (2) A company that makes the election referred to in subsection (1) must not participate in the CO₂ emission credit system set out in sections 34 to 47 for the model year in question.

• Marginal note:Merger

  (3) If a company merges with one or more companies after the day on which these Regulations come into force, the company that results from the merger may make the election referred to in subsection (1) if the number of vocational vehicles and tractors manufactured or imported for sale in Canada by the merged companies under each of paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) is less than 200.

• Marginal note:Acquisition

  (4) If a company acquires one or more companies after the day on which these Regulations come into force, it must

  • (a) in the case where the company made the election referred to in subsection (1) before the acquisition, recalculate the number of vocational vehicles and tractors that it manufactured or imported for sale in Canada under each of paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) by adding to that number the number of tractors and vocational vehicles of each of the acquired companies and report it in its first end of model year report following the acquisition; or

  • (b) in the case where the company makes the election referred to in subsection (1) after the acquisition, calculate the number of vocational vehicles and tractors that it manufactured or imported for sale in Canada under each of paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) by adding to that number the number of tractors and vocational vehicles of each of the acquired companies.