The ''Pest Control Products Act'' is the

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of Canadian legislation to govern the application of

pesticides Pesticides are substances that are meant to control pests. This includes herbicide, insecticide, nematicide, molluscicide, piscicide, avicide, rodenticide, bactericide, insect repellent, animal repellent, microbicide, fungicide, and lampric ...

History

A version that was in place from at least 1985 of the legislation, which was largely limited to praxis, combined with the approval features of the ''

Canada Agricultural Products Act The ''Canada Agricultural Products Act'' (french: Loi sur les produits agricoles au Canada, CAPA) is an Act of the Parliament of Canada. It institutes the Board of Arbitration and the Review Tribunal, the decisions of which are cognizable by ...

'' to govern the sphere.canlii.org: "Pest Control Products Act, RSC 1985, c P-9"
/ref> The most recent legislation under this name was proclaimed in 2002 but did not

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until June 28, 2006.orders-in-council.canada.ca: "PC Number: 2006-0482 Date: 2006-06-06"
/ref> along with its Regulations.orders-in-council.canada.ca: "PC Number: 2006-0483 Date: 2006-06-06"
/ref> The

Pest Management Regulatory Agency The Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) is the Canadian government agency responsible for the regulation of pest control products in Canada under the federal authority of the '' Pest Control Products Act'' and Regulations. The agency is a bra ...

, which was created under a former piece of legislation, reports to

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through

Health Canada Health Canada (HC; french: Santé Canada, SC)Health Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of Health (). is the Structure of the Canadian federal government#Departments, with subsidiary unit ...

, and is delegated to govern the products. On 31 January 2008, the Review Panel Regulations were instituted, in order to administer sections 35 to 40 of the Act. A statutory review of the Pest Control Products Act was held by the Health Committee of Parliament on 27 January 2015. Three witnesses from the

, Richard Aucoin, Jason Flint and Connie Moase, were called to speak on the legislation.openparliament.ca: "Health Committee on Jan. 27th, 2015"
27 Jan 2015 Aucoin, the Executive Director of the PMRA, stressed the science-based and

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-collaborative nature of the review process. Along with others, the Act was amended in 2016 in order to implement the Agreement on Trade Facilitation, which was done at

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by members of the

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on 27 November 2014, as an amendment to Annex 1A of the

Marrakesh Agreement The Marrakesh Agreement, manifested by the Marrakesh Declaration, was an agreement signed in Marrakesh, Morocco, by 123 nations on 15 April 1994, marking the culmination of the 8-year-long Uruguay Round and establishing the World Trade Organiz ...

establishing the World Trade Organization.canlii.ca: "An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act, the Hazardous Products Act, the Radiation Emitting Devices Act, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, the Pest Control Products Act and the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act and to make related amendments to another Act, SC 2016, c 9"
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References

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External links

fact sheet
''The Regulation of Pesticides in Canada''
written March 2009 * Health Canada Consumer Product Safet

written June 2006 Canadian federal legislation Pest legislation