Federal Sustainable Development Act

Marginal note:Designated entities over which minister presides

• 12 (1) In the case of a designated entity over which a minister presides, the minister who presides over the designated entity shall

  • (a) within one year after a Federal Sustainable Development Strategy is tabled in a House of Parliament under subsection 10(2), prepare a sustainable development strategy with respect to the designated entity that

    • (i) contains objectives and plans for the designated entity,

    • (ii) complies with the Federal Sustainable Development Strategy and contributes to the meeting of its goals,

    • (iii) takes into account the designated entity’s mandate,

    • (iv) takes into account any of the applicable policies or directives of the Treasury Board that are established or issued under section 10.1, and

    • (v) takes into account comments made under subsections 9(3) or (4); and

  • (b) cause the designated entity’s sustainable development strategy to be tabled in each House of Parliament within the year referred to in paragraph (a) or on any of the first 15 days on which that House is sitting after that year.

• Marginal note:Report

  (2) The minister presiding over the designated entity shall, at least once in each of the two years following the tabling of the designated entity’s sustainable development strategy in a House of Parliament under paragraph (1)(b), prepare a report on the progress of the designated entity in implementing its sustainable development strategy. That minister shall cause the report to be tabled in each House of Parliament within the year in which the report shall be prepared or on any of the first 15 days on which that House is sitting after that year.