Canada | Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Made Under Subsection 93(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999: SOR/2021-42

Objective

The objectives of the Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Made Under Subsection 93(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (the Amendments) are to provide certainty regarding which bodies can grant accreditation to labs, to remove the duplicative retesting that is required under some of the current regulations, and to improve the clarity and consistency of the regulatory text.

Description

The Amendments will apply to the following regulations (collectively referred to as “the four regulations”) as part of an omnibus regulatory process:

• 1. PCB Regulations (PCB means Polychlorinated Biphenyls);
• 2. 2-Butoxyethanol Regulations;
• 3. Prohibition of Certain Toxic Substances Regulations, 2012; and
• 4. Microbeads in Toiletries Regulations.
  

The Amendments will clarify that any laboratory analysis for any of the four regulations must be performed by a laboratory that meets a set of criteria at the time that the analysis or determination is performed. The laboratory must either be accredited

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