Renewable Fuels Regulations

Marginal note:Registration

• 34 (1) A producer in, or an importer into, Canada of renewable fuel must register by sending to the Minister a registration report that contains the information set out in Schedule 6 at least one day before they produce without any importation or import without any production, or their production and importation combined reaches, 400 m³ of renewable fuel during any period of 12 consecutive months in a gasoline compliance period.

• Marginal note:Change of information

  (2) If the information provided in the registration report — other than the information referred to in item 1 of Schedule 6 — changes, the producer or importer must send a notice to the Minister that provides the updated information no later than five days after the change.

• Marginal note:Record-keeping

  (3) The producer or importer must — for each batch of renewable fuel that they produce in, import into or sell in Canada during a gasoline compliance period — make a record of the following information:

  • (a) the type of renewable fuel;

  • (b) if known, each type of renewable fuel feedstock that was used to produce the renewable fuel;

  • (c) the volume of the batch, expressed in litres;

  • (d) for a batch that was produced, the civic address of the facility at which it was produced and the date or dates on which they dispatched the batch from that facility or sent the batch to a fuel dispensing device within that facility;

  • (e) for a batch that was imported, the province via which importation occured, the date of importation of the batch and its country of origin;

  • (f) the date of sale, if any, of the batch and the name of the person to whom it was sold;

  • (g) whether the batch of renewable fuel is to be exported and, if so

    • (i) in the case of fuel that is sold by the producer or the importer prior to its exportation, the province in which the fuel was located when ownership of the fuel was transferred by that sale, and

    • (ii) in any other case, the province via which the exportation is to occur; and

  • (h) if known, whether the batch of renewable fuel is to be blended with liquid petroleum fuel at a facility in Canada and, if so, the name of the person, or persons, who is to own the resulting blended fuel and the civic address of the facility.

• Marginal note:Annual report

  (4) For each gasoline compliance period during which the producer or importer produces or imports renewable fuel, they must, on or before February 15 following the end of the compliance period, send a report to the Minister that contains the information set out in Schedule 7 for the gasoline compliance period.