Public Health Agency of Canada Fees Report: Fiscal year 2020 to 2021

About this report

This report, which is tabled under section 20 of the Service Fees Act, including the Low-Materiality Fees Regulations and subsection 4.2.8 of the Directive on Charging and Special Financial Authorities, contains information about the fees that the Public Health Agency of Canada had the authority to set in 2020-21^{Footnote 1}.

Government of Canada departments may set fees for services, licences, permits, products, the use of facilities, for other authorizations of rights or privileges, or to recover, in whole or in part, costs incurred in relation to a regulatory scheme.

For reporting purposes, fees must be categorized under the following three fee-setting mechanisms:

1. Act, regulation or fees notice
   • An act of Parliament delegates the fee-setting authority to a department, minister or Governor in Council.
2. Contract
   • Ministers have the authority to enter into contracts, which are usually negotiated between the minister and an individual or organization, and which cover fees and other terms and conditions. In some cases, that authority may also be provided by an act of Parliament.
3. Market rate or auction
   • The authority to set these fees is pursuant to an act of Parliament or regulation, and the minister, department or Governor in Council has no control over the fee amount.

This report contains information about all fees that are under Public Health Agency of Canada's authority.

The information covers fees that are subject to the Service Fees Act and exempted from the Service Fees Act.

For fees set by contract, the report provides totals only. For fees set by act, regulation or fees notice, it provides totals for fee groupings, as well as detailed information for each fee.

Although the fees that Public Health Agency of Canada charges under the Access to Information Act were subject to the Service Fees Act, they are not included in this report. Information on Public Health Agency of Canada's access to information fees for 2020-21 can be found in our access to information report, which is posted on our Web page: Access to Information and Privacy Annual Reports.

Remissions

This report does not include remissions issued under the authority of the Service Fees Act, since this requirement took effect on April 1, 2021. Remissions issued under the Service Fees Act will be reported for the first time, as applicable, in the 2021-22 Fees Report, which will be published in 2022-23.

The Service Fees Act requires departments to remit a fee, in part or in full, to a fee payer when a service standard is deemed not met. Under the Service Fees Act and the Directive on Charging and Special Financial Authorities, departments had to develop policies and procedures for determining:

• whether a service standard has been met
• how much of a fee will be remitted to a fee payer if a service standard is deemed not met

The Public Health Agency of Canada's remission policy and procedures will be made available to the public, and will be found on the following web page: Ship Sanitation Certificate Remission Policy.

No other remissions related to fees were issued by Public Health Agency of Canada since it did not have or seek other authorities to remit.

Overall totals, by fee-setting mechanism

The following table presents the total revenue, cost and remissions for all fees that Public Health Agency of Canada had the authority to set in 2020-21, by fee-setting mechanism.

Totals, by fee grouping, for fees set by act, regulation or fees notice

The following section presents, for each fee grouping, the total revenue, cost and remissions for all fees that Public Health Agency of Canada had the authority to set in 2020-21 that are set by any of the following:

• act
• fees notice

A fee grouping is a set of fees relating to a single business line, directorate or program that a department had the authority to set for those activities.

Details on each fee set by act, regulation or fees notice

This section provides detailed information on each fee that Public Health Agency of Canada had the authority to set in 2020-21 and that was set by any of the following:

• act
• fees notice

The revenue reported below may include fees from previous years due to the timing of payments.