Regulations Amending the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency Quota Regulations, 1986 and the Canadian Egg Marketing Levies Order: SOR/2024-287

Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 159, Number 2

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SOR/2024-287 December 24, 2024

FARM PRODUCTS AGENCIES ACT

Whereas the Governor in Council has, by the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency Proclamation ^{footnote a}, established the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency under subsection 16(1)^{footnote b} of the Farm Products Agencies Act ^{footnote c};

Whereas that Agency has been empowered to implement a marketing plan under that Proclamation;

Whereas that Agency has complied with the requirements of section 4^{footnote d} of Part II of the schedule to that Proclamation;

Whereas the proposed Regulations Amending the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency Quota Regulations, 1986 and the Canadian Egg Marketing Levies Order are regulations of a class to which paragraph 7(1)(d)^{footnote e} of that Act applies, by reason of section 2 of the Agencies’ Orders and Regulations Approval Order ^{footnote f}, and have been submitted to the National Farm Products Council under paragraph 22(1)(f) of that Act;

And whereas, under paragraph 7(1)(d)^{footnote e} of that Act, the National Farm Products Council has approved the proposed Regulations after being satisfied that they are necessary for the implementation of the marketing plan that that Agency is authorized to implement;

Therefore, the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency makes the annexed Regulations Amending the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency Quota Regulations, 1986 and the Canadian Egg Marketing Levies Order under paragraph 22(1)(f) of the Farm Products Agencies Act ^{footnote c} and sections 2 and 10 of Part II of the schedule to the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency Proclamation ^{footnote a}.

Ottawa, December 17, 2024

Regulations Amending the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency Quota Regulations, 1986 and the Canadian Egg Marketing Levies Order

Canadian Egg Marketing Agency Quota Regulations, 1986

1 The definition egg for processing quota in section 2 of the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency Quota Regulations, 1986 ^{footnote 1} is repealed.

2 (1) Paragraph 4(1)(a) of the Regulations is replaced by the following:

(a) a federal quota, special temporary market requirement quota or vaccine quota has been allotted to the producer, on behalf of the Agency, by the Commodity Board of the province in which the producer’s egg production facilities are located;

(2) Paragraph 4(1)(b) of the English version of the Regulations is replaced by the following:

(b) the number of eggs marketed does not exceed the federal quota, special temporary market requirement quota or vaccine quota referred to in paragraph (a);

(3) Paragraphs 4(1)(c) and (d) of the Regulations are replaced by the following:

(c) the producer complies with any subsisting rules of the Commodity Board referred to in paragraph (a) that the Commodity Board has been authorized by the Agency, under subsection 22(3) of the Act, to apply, in performing on behalf of the Agency the function of allotting and administering federal quotas, special temporary market requirement quotas and vaccine quotas;

3 Section 5.1 of the Regulations and the heading before it are replaced by the following:

Entitlement to Special Temporary Market Requirement Quota and Vaccine Quota

5.1 A producer is entitled to be allotted a special temporary market requirement quota or a vaccine quota if the producer has been allotted, or would be entitled to be allotted, a federal quota under these Regulations.

4 Subsection 7.1(1) of the Regulations is repealed.

5 Schedule 1.2 to the Regulations is repealed.

Canadian Egg Marketing Levies Order

6 Section 2 of the Canadian Egg Marketing Levies Order ^{footnote 2} is replaced by the following:

2 Subsection 3(1) does not apply in respect of eggs marketed under a special temporary market requirement quota that is allotted under the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency Quota Regulations, 1986.

7 Subsection 3(3) of the Order is repealed.