Appendix IV: CEPA 1999 expected outcomes

Obligations

• None specified.

Advisory Committee

• None specified.

Agreements

• An increase in the harmonization of environmental standards and requirements across all Canadian jurisdictions.

Management and Accountability^{Footnote xxxvii} 

• None specified.

Obligations

• None specified.

Informing the Public

• Canadians have better access to information.

Public Participation

• Canadians have the opportunity to initiate investigations of alleged offences, recover personal damage and economic loss, make personal claims and file citizens' suits.

Obligations

• None specified.

Information Gathering

• Environmental conditions are monitored, tracked and reported.
• Information across disparate networks is extracted, analyzed and published in a way that influences internal decision-making and management by all levels of government.
• Research and development and demonstration projects are supported.

Objectives, Guidelines, Codes of Practice

• The behaviour of Canadians, and industry in particular, is influenced by guidelines and codes.

Obligations

• None specified.

Pollution Prevention Planning

• Where risks can be managed appropriately, industry is provided opportunities to identify and address toxic releases in a manner most appropriate to its operations

Obligations

• All time-bound obligations are satisfied.

Assessing Existing Substances

• All substances on the Domestic Substances List are categorized by September 2006.

New Substances

• Eliminate overlap and duplication with other acts.
• CEPA 1999 functions as an effective safety net for areas not covered by other federal Acts.
• Unauthorized use of new substances will be prevented.

Risk Management (General)

• Releases of toxic substances are prevented or reduced.
• The use of existing substances in products and industrial and commercial processes is better managed.
• Releases of known persistent, bioaccumulative and inherently toxic substances from human-caused sources are virtually eliminated.

Risk Management (Air)

• Reductions of releases of smog-forming emissions from major industrial sources.
• Reduction of nitrogen oxide emissions.
• Reductions of volatile organic compound emissions from various products.
• Prevent and reduce domestic and global emissions of hazardous air pollutants.
• Protect the ozone layer from ozone-depleting substances.
• Reductions of acid deposition below critical levels.

Obligations

• All time-bound obligations are satisfied

Assessment of Animate Products of Biotechnology

• Eliminate overlap and duplication with other acts.
• CEPA 1999 functions as an effective safety net for areas not covered by other federal acts.

Management of Animate Products of Biotechnology

• Releases of toxic or harmful animate products of biotechnology are prevented or reduced.
• Unauthorized use of new animate products of biotechnology is prevented.

7. Controlling pollution and managing wastes

Obligations

• None specified.

Division 1: Nutrients

• Growth of vegetation caused by the release of utrients is prevented or reduced.

Division 2: Protection of the Marine Environment

• Protection of marine environment from land-based sources of pollution.

Division 3: Disposal at Sea

• Enhanced management of materials disposed of at sea.

Division 4: Fuels and
Division 5: Vehicle, Engine and Equipment Emissions

• Reduction of smog-forming emissions from fuels, vehicles, engines and equipment.

Division 6: International Air Pollution

• None specified.

Division 7: International Water Pollution

• None specified.

Division 8: Control of Movement of Hazardous Waste

• Increased harmonization of approach across Canadian jurisdictions. and a commitment to raise Canadian standards to those in the United States.

Obligations

• None specified.

Environmental Emergencies

• Emergency preparedness, prevention response and recovery more effective.
• Plans in place for toxic substance whose accidental release poses a significant risk.
• Regulations in place that enable efficient recovery of costs.

Obligations

• None specified.

Federal House

• Federal operations and those of federal works and undertakings will be held to the same environmental protection and prevention standards as the communities in which they operate.
• Operations on Aboriginal lands will be held to the same environmental protection and prevention standards as comparable operations on adjacent non-Aboriginal lands.

Obligations

• None specified.

Enforcement

• Increased awareness of enforceable CEPA 1999 instruments and related obligations.
• The rate of compliance with enforceable CEPA 1999 instruments improves.
• Enforcement is carried out in a fair, consistent and predictable manner.
• Facilities return to compliance more quickly through the use of more flexible enforcement tools.

Obligations

• None specified.

Economic Instruments

• Economic instruments (such as trading systems) are used to achieve environmental objectives where appropriate.

Cost Recovery

• Cost recovery of departmental efforts related to the control or cleanup of pollution is pursued consistent with government policy.