ABSOLUTE DISCHARGE UNDER CEPA

摘要

An Ontario company received an absolute discharge for unwittingly breaching Section 36 of the Export and Import of Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Recyclable Materials Regulations, under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act 1999. This section requires those exporting hazardous wasternfrom Canada to submit confirmation of destruction, within 30 days after the foreign receiver disposes of the waste. No specific format is prescribed. Like many others, RPR Environmental believed that Environment Canada was content to accept Copy 3 of the completed manifest as adequate proof of destruction, especially where the receiver prompdy disposed of the waste.