New Substances Notification Regulations (Organisms) (SOR/2005-248).

The present Regulations enact subsection 332(1) the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. In particular, the Regulations lay down provisions relating to the notification of new substances. The text – consisting of 9 sections – deal with the following matters: scope, micro-organisms, organisms other than micro-organisms, information provision time limits, assessment periods, retention of information, administrative requirements and coming into force. Five Schedules are enclosed as follows: Information required in respect of micro-organisms (1); Information required in respect of micro-organisms manufactured in or imported to a contained facility that are not for introduction outside the contained facility or that are for export only (2); Information required in respect of micro-organisms for introduction in an experimental field study (3); Information required in respect of micro-organisms manufactured at the site from which they were isolated for introduction into the same site (4); Information required in respect of organisms other than micro-organisms (5).