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• 5 (1) Every licence, other than a market development licence or a specialty chicken licence, is issued subject to the following conditions:

  • (a) the licensee must report to CFC and to the Commodity Board or person authorized by CFC, within seven days after the end of each week of marketing, the number of head and the aggregate weight of live chicken marketed by the licensee in interprovincial and export trade during that week, indicating

    • (i) in the case of interprovincial trade, the province from which, and the province to which, the live chicken was marketed,

    • (ii) in the case of export trade, the province from which, and the country to which, the live chicken was marketed, and

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  • (d) the licensee must keep complete and accurate books on all matters relevant to the marketing of chicken, live or eviscerated, in interprovincial or export trade, and retain them for six years after the date of the last entry in them;

  • (e) the licensee must not knowingly engage in the marketing of live chicken in interprovincial or export trade with persons who do not hold a licence issued under these Regulations;

  • (f) the licensee must not knowingly engage in the marketing, in interprovincial or export trade, of live chicken not raised by producers authorized to market live chicken in interprovincial or export trade under quotas allotted in accordance with the Canadian Chicken Marketing Quota Regulations;

  • (g) the licensee must not engage in the marketing of chicken in interprovincial or export trade in excess of the quota allotted on behalf of CFC to the licensee by the Commodity Board of the province in which the producer’s registered production facilities are located;

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• (3) Every market development licence is issued subject to the following conditions:

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  • (c) the licensee must not knowingly engage in the marketing, in interprovincial or export trade, of chicken not raised by producers authorized to market chicken in interprovincial or export trade under federal market development quotas allotted in accordance with the Canadian Chicken Marketing Quota Regulations;

  • (d) during the market development commitment period, the licensee must market the total live weight equivalent of the number of kilograms of chicken indicated in section 1 of the market development commitment form — calculated by using the coefficients set out in column 2 of the table to section 1 of Schedule 2 — to the buyers, and for the end-uses, referred to in section 3 of that Schedule and, during that period, the licensee must receive, in respect of the chicken, a copy of the Market Development Policy Volume Confirmation letter issued to buyers by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, the Certificate of Inspection Covering Meat Products issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency or the Official Meat Inspection Certificate for fresh meat, meat by-products, meat food products and poultry products issued by that Agency;

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  • (i.01) the licensee must retain the following documents, which will be reviewed by CFC at the end of each period within the market development commitment period, for six years after the date of the last entry, and for purposes of the review, the licensee must, if requested, forward the following documents to the Commodity Board authorized by CFC:

    • (i) the Export Declaration in respect of any of the chicken that was marketed in export trade,

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    • (v) a copy of the Market Development Policy Volume Confirmation letter, if any, issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development to each buyer of the chicken,

  • (i.1) the licensee consents to the disclosure by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development and by the Canada Border Services Agency to CFC of information to establish that chicken claimed by the licensee to meet the licensee’s market development commitment was not imported and then re-exported under an Import for Re-Export Program or a Duty Deferral Program;

  • (j) the licensee must keep complete and accurate books on all matters relevant to the marketing of chicken in interprovincial or export trade, and retain them for six years after the date of the last entry in them;

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• (7) Every specialty chicken licence is issued subject to the following conditions:

  • (a) the licensee must be a primary processor using slaughtering facilities that are subject to inspection under a federal or provincial Act or regulations made under a federal or provincial Act, or be a producer authorized to market specialty chicken in interprovincial or export trade under the Canadian Chicken Marketing Quota Regulations;

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  • (c) the licensee must report to CFC, or to any person authorized by CFC to receive the report, and to the Commodity Board within seven days after the end of each week of marketing, the number of head and the aggregate weight of live specialty chicken marketed by the licensee in interprovincial and export trade during that week, indicating

    • (i) in the case of interprovincial trade, the province from which, and the province to which, the live specialty chicken was marketed,

    • (ii) in the case of export trade, the province from which, and the country to which, the live specialty chicken was marketed,

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  • (g) the licensee must not trade, assign, rent, or otherwise transfer, or give as security for indebtedness, the right to market chicken for which a federal specialty chicken quota has been issued to that licensee;

  • (h) the licensee must keep complete and accurate books on all matters relevant to the marketing of specialty chicken, live or eviscerated, in interprovincial or export trade, and retain them for six years after the date of the last entry in them;

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  • (j) the licensee must not knowingly engage in the marketing of live specialty chicken in interprovincial or export trade with persons who do not hold a licence issued under these Regulations;

  • (k) the licensee must not knowingly engage in the marketing, in interprovincial or export trade, of live specialty chicken not raised by producers authorized to market live specialty chicken in interprovincial or export trade under quotas allotted in accordance with the Canadian Chicken Marketing Quota Regulations;

  • (l) the licensee must not knowingly engage in the marketing of specialty chicken in interprovincial or export trade in excess of the specialty chicken quota allotted on behalf of CFC to the licensee by the Commodity Board of the province in which the producer’s registered production facilities are located;

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1 The following definitions apply in these Regulations.

federal market development quota

federal market development quota  means the number of kilograms of chicken, expressed in live weight, that a producer is entitled, under the Canadian Chicken Marketing Quota Regulations, to market in interprovincial or export trade to market development licensees during the period referred to in the schedule to those Regulations. (contingent fédéral d’expansion du marché)

federal specialty chicken quota

federal specialty chicken quota  means the number of kilograms of chicken, expressed in live weight, that a producer is entitled, under the Canadian Chicken Marketing Quota Regulations, to market in interprovincial or export trade to specialty chicken licensees during the period referred to in the schedule to those Regulations. (contingent fédéral de poulet de spécialité)

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• 4 (1) Subject to sections 8 and 9, within 30 days after the receipt of a licence application in a form approved by CFC and the payment of the applicable fee set out in section 6, CFC shall issue a licence to a producer, producer-processor, primary processor, processor, dealer, retailer or transporter, engaged in the marketing of chicken in interprovincial or export trade.

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3 No person may engage in the marketing of chicken in interprovincial or export trade as a producer, producer-processor, primary processor, processor, dealer, retailer or transporter unless the person

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