Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 — C-15.31 209
Regulations for the protection of the environment 209 (1) The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations for the protection of the environment, including regulations respecting (a) the establishment of environmental management systems; (b) pollution prevention and pollution prevention plans; (c) environmental emergencies, releases of substances and likely releases, including their prevention, preparedness for them, reporting them, both as soon as possible in the circumstances and in detail at a later stage, and the measures to be taken to respond to them and to correct damage to the environment; (d) the designation of persons for the purposes of paragraph 212(1)(a) and subsections 212(3) and 213(1) and prescribing the form of the report to be made under those provisions and the information to be contained in it; (e) the circumstances in which a report is not required under paragraph 212(1)(a); (f) any substance; and (g) any other matter necessary to carry out the purposes of this Part. Content of the regulations (2) Regulations with respect to any substance may provide for, or impose requirements respecting, (a) the quantity or concentration of any substance that may be released into the environment either alone or in combination with any other substance from any source or type of source; (b) the places or areas where the substance may be released; (c) the commercial, manufacturing, processing or other activity in the course of which the substance may be released; (d) the manner in which and the conditions under which the substance may be released into the environment, either alone or in combination with any other substance; (e) the quantity of the substance that may be manufactured, processed, used, offered for sale or sold in Canada; (f) the purposes for which the substance, a product that contains the substance or a product that may release the substance into the environment may be imported, exported, manufactured, processed, used, offered for sale or sold; (g) the manner in which and the conditions under which the substance, a product that contains the substance or a product that may release the substance into the environment may be imported, exported, manufactured, processed or used; (h) the quantities or concentrations in which the substance may be used; (i) the quantities or concentrations of the substance that may be imported or exported; (j) the countries from or to which the substance may be imported or exported; (k) the conditions under which, the manner in which and the purposes for which the substance may be imported or exported; (l) the total, partial or conditional prohibition of the manufacture, use, processing, sale, offering for sale, import or export of the substance, a product that contains the substance or a product that may release the substance into the environment and the total, partial or conditional prohibition of the manufacture, import or export of a product that is intended to contain the substance; (m) the quantity or concentration of the substance that may be contained in any product manufactured, imported, exported, sold or offered for sale in Canada, or that any such product may release into the environment; (n) the manner in which, the conditions under which and the purposes for which the substance, a product that contains the substance or a product that may release the substance into the environment may be advertised or offered for sale; (o) the manner in which and the conditions under which the substance, a product that contains the substance or a product that may release the substance into the environment may be stored, displayed, handled, transported or offered for transport; (p) the packaging and labelling of the substance, a product that contains the substance or a product that may release the substance into the environment; (q) the manner, conditions, places and method of disposal or recycling of the substance, a product that contains the substance