Cross-border Movement of Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Recyclable Material Regulations — 1
Definitions 1 The following definitions apply in these Regulations. Act means the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 . ( Loi ) authorized carrier means, as the case may be, (a) a carrier that, in accordance with the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 and the regulations under that Act, transports — or is to transport — hazardous waste or hazardous recyclable material by means of a boat, ship or craft designed, used or capable of being used solely or partly for navigation in, on, through or immediately above water; and (b) a carrier that transports — or is to transport — hazardous waste or hazardous recyclable material in accordance with the requirements of the jurisdiction in which the waste or recyclable material is transported. ( transporteur agréé ) authorized facility means a facility that is authorized by the authorities of the jurisdiction in which it is located to dispose of hazardous waste by means of a disposal operation set out in column 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 or to recycle hazardous recyclable material by means of a recycling operation set out in column 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 1. ( installation agréée ) Canada-USA Agreement means the Agreement Between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America Concerning the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste, which entered into force on November 8, 1986, as amended from time to time. ( accord Canada – États-Unis ) CAS Registry Number means the identification number assigned to a substance by the Chemical Abstracts Service Division of the American Chemical Society. ( numéro d’enregistrement CAS ) competent authority means, in the case of a country that is a party to the Convention or is subject to OECD Decision C(2001)107/FINAL, the authority that is designated as the competent authority by that country under the Convention or under OECD Decision C(2001)107/FINAL, as the case may be, and, in the case of the United States, the United States Environmental Protection Agency. ( autorité compétente ) consignee means a person that receives or is to receive delivery from a consignor of a shipment that contains hazardous waste or hazardous recyclable material at a site that they own, operate or otherwise control. ( destinataire ) consignor means a person that, on their own behalf or on behalf of another person under an agreement or arrangement with that person, sends or is to send a shipment that contains hazardous waste or hazardous recyclable material from a site that is located in a province to a site that is located in another province and that is owned, operated or otherwise controlled by a consignee. ( expéditeur ) contract means a contract — or, if all of the parties are the same legal entity, an arrangement among those parties — that is in writing and is signed and, if parties are the same legal entity that is doing business in both Canada and another country, is signed by the representatives of that entity in both countries. ( contrat ) Convention means the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, which entered into force on May 5, 1992. ( Convention ) environmentally hazardous constituent means a constituent that is contained in a leachate and is set out in column 3 of Schedule 2 in a concentration that is determined to be equal to or greater than the concentration set out in column 4 of that Schedule in accordance with Method 1311: Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure , as set out in Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods , SW-846, Third Edition, published by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. ( constituant dangereux pour l’environnement ) final disposal operation means a disposal operation set out in column 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 that bears one of the disposal codes D1 to D12, DC1 and DC2 set out in column 1 of that Part. ( opération finale d’élimination ) final recycling operation means a recycling operation set out in column