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| Name: | Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 [1999, c. 33]. |
| Country: | Canada |
| Subject(s): | General provisions |
| Type of legislation: | Law, Act |
| Adopted on: | 1999-09-14 |
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| Published on: | Official Gazette, 1999-11-04, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 1-235 |
| ISN: | CAN-1999-L-56661 |
| Link: | https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex4.detail?p_isn=56661&p_lang=en |
| Bibliography: | Official Gazette, 1999-11-04, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 1-235 Laws in French and English  Department of Justice, http://laws.justice.gc.ca, Canada PDF of Act current to 20 June 2019 (consulted on 2011-02-08) |
| Abstract/Citation: | Repeals and Replaces the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. The principal changes include provisions to implement pollution prevention, new procedures for the investigation and assessment of substances and new requirements with respect to substances that the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Health have determined to be toxic or capable of becoming toxic, and provisions regarding animate products of biotechnology. |
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