English: CANADA -NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR IMPLEMENTATION AGREEMENT PART TWO - BUSINESS RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS 12.0 INTERPRETATION 12.1 Definitions In this Part: "agricultural product" means an agricultural product as defined in the federal Farm Income Protection Act; "contribution entitlement" means the amount a producer is entitled to contribute to Fund 1 within a program year; "crop year" means the 12-month period specified in any production insurance agreement for each insured crop; "deposit deadline" means a date that is no later than the last day of the program year or any earlier date as set out in the guidelines; "disaster component" means the income insurance measures of the NISA program that provides payments to a producer based on a margin decline that exceeds 30 per cent, with a government payment not to exceed 70 per cent of the loss; "elected stabilization and disaster coverage" means the level between minimum level permissible under clause 15.1.10 and 100 per cent of the reference margin chosen by the producer that will determine the level of government funding to which a producer may have access upon triggering a withdrawal for any given program year; "eligible production input costs" means input costs directly related to production that are eligible to be deducted from farm revenue in the calculation of the production margin and reference margin, and may include items such as feed, livestock, seed, production insurance program premiums, fertilizer, pesticides, containers, twine, fuel, electricity, trucking, storage, drying and custom feeding, details of which shall be set out in program guidelines; "farm revenue"means farm income reported for income tax purposes or, for producers exempt from taxation, as would be reportable for income tax purposes, including production insurance payments, but excluding other government program payments and subject to any limitations set out in the program guidelines; "Fund 1" means the account to which all amounts contributed by the producer shall be deposited under the terms of the NISA program;  "Fund 2" means the account to which all amounts paid by the Parties in respect of a producer under the terms of the NISA program shall be deposited; "moral hazard" means the hazard arising from any nonphysical, personal characteristic of a risk, such as a bad habit, low integrity or poor financial standing, that increases the possibility of loss or may intensify the severity of loss from an insured peril; "NISA Agreement" means the Federal/Provincial Agreement Re-Establishing the Net Income Stabilization Account (NISA) Program attached as Annex A to this Implementation Agreement, and as amended from time to time; "NISA program" means the net income stabilization account program, as that term is defined in the federal Farm Income Protection Act, that is to be established under the NISA Agreement; "prior NISA Agreement" means the Federal/Provincial Agreement Establishing the Net Income Stabilization Account (NISA) Program, as amended from time to time, applicable to the 2002 program year and all previous program years; "producer" means an individual engaged in farming or an entity, such as a corporation, that is recognized by law as having rights and duties and is engaged in farming; "production insurance agreement" means an agreement between Canada and a Province that establishes a production insurance program; "production margin" means the difference between farm revenue and eligible production input costs in a given program year; "program year" means the period for which the participant files return under the Income Tax Act, or such other period as is permitted by the Administration under clause 15.1.10; "reference margin" means, prior to a given program year, the three-year average of the production margin based on the preceding five-year period, excluding the years with the highest and lowest production margins, or, in cases where production margin data for the previous five years is not available, the previous three years’ average of the production margin; "stabilization component" means the income insurance measures of the NISA program that provides payments to a producer based on a margin decline that is at or less than 30 per cent; and "triggered withdrawal" means the amount to be withdrawn in respect of a program year from Fund 1 and Fund 2 based on the shortfall between the production margin and the reference margin, and is limited by the amount of elected stabilization and disaster coverage as well as the amount on deposit in the Fund 1 account and subject to the payment cap set out in clause 15.1.6.
French: Les parties conviennent que les programmes de gestion des risques doivent être conçus conformément aux principes suivants : 14.1.1 les programmes doivent être conformes aux obligations commerciales internationales du Canada et minimiser le risque de mesures de rétorsion; 14.1.2 les programmes doivent être détaillés; 14.1.3 les programmes doivent réduire le risque moral et ne doivent pas influer sur les décisions de production et de commercialisation des agriculteurs; 14.1.4 les programmes doivent être élaborés de concert avec les secteurs agricole et agroalimentaire, notamment en consultation avec les autres partenaires et intervenants pertinents; 14.1.5 les programmes doivent avoir un objectif clair; 14.1.6 les programmes doivent contribuer à l'utilisation et à l'élaboration d'outils de gestion des risques par le secteur privé; 14.1.7 les programmes doivent contribuer à l'adaptation axée sur le marché et à l'adoption d'innovations technologiques; 14.1.8 les producteurs qui participent à des programmes subventionnés par l'État doivent en partager les coûts; 14.1.9 les programmes doivent porter sur la stabilité de l'exploitation agricole dans son ensemble; 14.1.10 les paiements aux fins de stabilisation, de compensation à la suite d'une catastrophe ou de perte de production ne doivent pas être capitalisés dans l'actif; 14.1.11 il doit y avoir une limite à l'aide apportée aux producteurs agricoles; 14.1.12 les programmes doivent aider à atténuer un large éventail de risques en contribuant à l'amélioration de la gérance de l'environnement et à l'amélioration de la qualité et de la salubrité des aliments; 14.1.13 les ressources financières du Canada doivent servir à offrir, au fil du temps, la même protection à tous les producteurs dans des circonstances similaires; 14.1.14 les programmes admissibles à la base commune de programmes de gestion des risques, et l'allocation des fonds fédéraux et provinciaux, ne doivent pas fausser les avantages comparatifs des régions ou des produits dans une province ou un territoire ou entre deux.