IP/N/1/CAN/18  
IP/N/1/CAN/P/13  
 
11 June 2018  
(18-3572)  Page: 1/2 
Council for Trade -Related Aspects  
of Intellectual Property Rights  Original: English/French  
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS  AND REGULATIONS  
UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 O F THE TRIPS AGREEMENT  
CANADA : BILL C -30 (AN ACT TO IMPLEM ENT THE COMPREHENSIV E ECONOMIC AND  
TRADE AGREEMENT BETW EEN CANADA AND THE E UROPEAN UNION AND IT S  
MEMBER STATES AND TO  PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN OTHER MEASURES)  
 
 
Notifying 
Member  CANADA  
 
Details of the notified legal text  
 
Title Bill C -30 (An Act to implement the Comprehensive Economic and Trade 
Agreement between Canada and the European Union and its Member States 
and to provide for certain other measures)  
Subject matter  Patents (including plant variety protection)  
Nature of 
notification  [X] Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation  
[  ] Other law or regulation  
Link to legal 
text https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/IP/CAN/18_2893_00_e.PDF  
Notification 
status  [  ] First notification  
[X] Amendment or revision to notified legal text  
[  ] Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
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Brief description of the notified legal text  
 
Bill C-30 amends the Patent Act, under new sections 104 to 134, to make available a Certificate of 
Supplementary Protection (CSP) for eligible new medicinal ingredients or new combinations of 
medicinal ingredients that are contained in human and veterinary drugs, following expiry of an 
eligible patent. The rights of a CSP match those of the patent as th ey apply to a medicinal 
ingredient or combination in a drug, with a few exceptions.  
 
Bill C -30 also amends section 55.2(4) of the Patent Act to allow the Governor in Council to make 
regulations that will ensure that disputes brought under the Patented Medi cines (Notice of 
Compliance) Regulations, which constitute Canada’s pharmaceutical patent linkage regime, 
provides litigants with an equivalent and effective right of appeal.  
 
Language(s) of 
notified legal 
text English and French  
Entry into force  21 September 2017; Bill C -30 received Royal Assent on 16 May 2017, and 
entered into force on 21 September 2017.  
Other date   Adoption 16 May 2017  
 
Notification details  
 
Submission 
date of 
notification  25 May 2018  
Other 
information   
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  Innovation, Science and Economic Development  
Patent Policy Directorate  
  
235 Queen Street  
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H5  
Canada  
Telephone:    343 -291-2686