Translation of "Federal Act 12 June 2009 on Product Safety " (English → French) :

Federal Act of 12 June 2009 on Product Safety [ ProdSA ]

Federal Act of 12 June 2009 on the Federal Museums and and Collections | Museums and Collections Act [ MusCA ]

Federal Act of 12 June 2009 on Value Added Tax | VAT Act [ VATA ]

Federal Law of 12 June 2009 on product safety (RO 2010 2573)

(Return tabled) Question No. 334 Hon. Irwin Cotler: With regard to bijuralism and harmonization: (a) what measures are in place to ensure legislative bijuralism across all departments; (b) since the adoption of the “Policy on Legislative Bijuralism”, how has the Department of Justice (i) ensured that all legal counsel in the Department are made aware of the requirements of legislative bijuralism in order for them to be able to take it into account when advising client departments on legislative reforms, (ii) enhanced the capacity of the Legislative Services Branch to draft bijural legislative texts, (iii) undertook, in drafting both versions of every bill and proposed regulation that touches on provincial or territorial private law, to tak ...[+++]e care to reflect the terminology, concepts, notions and institutions of both of Canada’s private law systems; (c) since the adoption of the “Policy for Applying the Civil Code of Quebec to Federal Government Activities”, what measures are in place to ensure (i) changes to Quebec’s Civil Code are known and monitored by the government, (ii) assessment of federal legislation relative to changes to Quebec’s Civil Code, (iii) federal legislation is introduced to reflect, where necessary, changes to the Civil Code of Quebec; (d) with respect to the “Index of Bijuralism and Harmonization Caselaw” found online and indicating its most recent update was June 12, 2012, (i) how often is this page updated, (ii) given that some cases thereupon are from 2013, when was this page last updated, (iii) whose responsibility is it to update this page, (iv) what cases are currently being monitored for potential addition to this page; (e) with respect to cases involving bijuralism and harmonization, (i) in what ways are these made known to the Department, (ii) whose responsibility it is to monitor these cases, (iii), what role does the Federal government play in these cases if a party, (iv) what role does the government play if not a party, (v) who m ...

12. Supports the revision of the GPSD and of Regulation 765/2008/EC with regard to definitions and obligations for economic operators as defined in Decision 768/2008/EC, while avoiding the creation of unnecessary administrative burdens, especially for SMEs; considers that having one single regulation is the only way to have one single market surveillance system for all products; therefore urges the Commission to establish a single market surveillance system for all products, based on one legislative act covering both the GPSD and Regul ...[+++]ation 765/2009/EC; considers that this new legislative act should be created to achieve a high level of product safety and market surveillance, clarifying the legal basis and taking into account the provisions developed more fully in the two existing legislative acts;

See for example: Carly Weeks, “Consumer Safety: Progressive Licensing; Experts sound alarm on drug-approval plan,” The Globe and Mail [Toronto], Metro Edition, 9 April 2008; Karen Gram, “Natural health products unfairly hit, critics say,” Vancouver Sun, 10 May 2008; Carly Weeks, “Bill C-51: Regulating herbs and vitamins,” The Globe and Mail [Toronto], Metro Edition, 23 May 2008; Susan Zielinski, “Takin’ it to the streets; Protesters oppose natural ...[+++] health products bill,” Red Deer Advocate, 2 June 2008; André Picard, “Second Opinion; Bill C-51: Natural health products,” The Globe and Mail [Toronto], Metro Edition, 12 June 2008; Stephanie Waddell, “Questions arise over Food and Drugs Act changes,” The Whitehorse Star, 12 June 2008.