Short Title

1 These Regulations may be cited as the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency Quota Regulations, 1986.

Interpretation

2 In these Regulations:

Act

Act means the Farm Products Agencies Act; (Loi)

Agency

Agency means the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency; (Office)

Commodity Board

Commodity Board means, in respect of the Province of

• (a) Ontario, the Ontario Egg Producers,

• (b) Quebec, la Fédération des producteurs d’oeufs de consommation du Québec,

• (c) Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Egg and Pullet Producers Marketing Board,

• (d) New Brunswick, the New Brunswick Egg Marketing Board,

• (e) British Columbia, the British Columbia Egg Producers,

• (f) Prince Edward Island, the Prince Edward Island Egg Commodity Marketing Board,

• (g) Manitoba, the Manitoba Egg Producers,

• (h) Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Egg Producers,

• (i) Alberta, the Alberta Egg and Fowl Marketing Board,

• (j) Newfoundland, the Newfoundland Egg Marketing Board, and

• (k) the Northwest Territories, the Northwest Territories Egg Producers; (Office de commercialisation)

designated facilities

designated facilities means a producer’s hen laying barns the entire output of eggs of which is dedicated for marketing by that producer exclusively to a single processor pursuant to a export market development quota; (installations désignées)

egg

egg means the egg of a domestic hen; (oeuf)

egg for processing quota

egg for processing quota means the number of dozens of eggs that a producer is entitled, under these Regulations, to market to a processor in interprovincial or export trade during the period set out in the schedule; (contingent de transformation)

export market development quota

export market development quota means the number of dozens of eggs produced in designated facilities that a producer is entitled, under these Regulations, to market exclusively to a single processor in export trade during the period set out in the schedule. (contingent pour le développement du marché d’exportation)

export quota

export quota[Repealed, SOR/2001-27, s. 1]

federal quota

federal quota means the number of dozens of eggs that a producer is entitled, under these Regulations, to market in interprovincial and export trade through normal marketing channels during the period set out in the schedule; (contingent fédéral)

hen

hen means a hen belonging to the species gallus domesticus; (poule)

marketing

marketing, in relation to eggs, means selling and offering for sale and buying, pricing, assembling, packing, processing, transporting, storing and reselling, whether in whole or in processed form; (commercialisation)

processor

processor means any person who breaks eggs and filters, blends, heat-treats, stabilizes, mixes, cools, freezes and dries eggs (transformateur)

producer

producer means any person engaged in the production of eggs; (producteur)

provincial quota

provincial quota means the number of dozens of eggs that a producer is entitled, under orders, regulations or policy directives, made by the Commodity Board of a province, to market in intraprovincial trade during the period set out in the schedule. (contingent provincial)

Application

• 3 (1) Subject to subsection (2), these Regulations apply to the marketing of eggs in interprovincial and export trade.

• (2) These Regulations do not apply to eggs that are placed in an incubator for hatching.

Federal Quota Prohibitions

• 4 (1) No producer shall market eggs in interprovincial or export trade unless

  • (a) a federal quota, egg for processing quota or export market development quota has been allotted to the producer, on behalf of the Agency, by the Commodity Board of the province in which the producer’s egg production facilities are located;

  • (b) the number of eggs marketed does not exceed the federal quota, egg for processing quota or export market development quota referred to in paragraph (a);

  • (c) the producer complies with any subsisting rules of the Commodity Board referred to in paragraph (a) that the Commodity Board has been authorized by the Agency, pursuant to subsection 22(3) of the Act, to apply in performing on behalf of the Agency the function of allotting and administering federal quotas, egg for processing quotas and export marketing development quotas;

  • (d) in the case of eggs marketed by the producer under an egg for processing quota,

    • (i) all such eggs are sold by the producer to a processor at a price not less than the price of eggs of an equivalent variety, class, grade or size sold under the Agency’s Industrial Products Program,

    • (ii) all such eggs are sold by the producer to the processor pursuant to a contract that has been approved by the Agency,

    • (iii) the producer holds a seller’s licence and the processor holds a buyer’s licence issued pursuant to the Canadian Egg Licensing Regulations, 1987,

    • (iv) the receipts from the sale of all such eggs are pooled, and

    • (v) payment to the producer for the sale of such eggs is determined upon the pooled receipts less expenses incurred by the Agency in relation to all sales; and

  • (e) in the case of eggs marketed by the producer under an export market development quota,

    • (i) all such eggs are sold by the producer to a processor pursuant to a contract that has been approved by the Agency or pursuant to a contract between the Agency, producer and the processor of all such eggs,

    • (ii) all such eggs are produced by the producer pursuant to a laying hen possession quota issued by the Commodity Board of the province in which the producer’s designated facilities are located, and

    • (iii) the producer holds a seller’s licence and the processor holds a buyer’s licence issued pursuant to the Canadian Egg Licensing Regulations, 1987.

• (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to eggs marketed under quota exemptions referred to in subsection 7(2).

Entitlement to a Federal Quota

• 5 (1) Subject to subsection (2), a producer is not entitled to be allotted a federal quota unless, immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations,

  • (a) the producer had a provincial quota that was allotted to him by the Commodity Board of the province in which the producer’s egg production facilities are located; and

  • (b) the producer was entitled to a federal quota pursuant to the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency Quota Regulations, C.R.C., c. 656.

• (2) After the coming into force of these Regulations, a producer is entitled to be allotted a federal quota if, pursuant to the rules of the Commodity Board of the province in which the producer’s egg production facilities are located, the producer is allotted a provincial quota.

Entitlement to Egg for Processing Quota

5.1 A producer is entitled to be allotted an egg for processing quota if the producer has been allotted, or would be entitled to be allotted, a federal quota under these Regulations.

Entitlement to Export Market Development Quota

5.2 A producer shall be allotted or hold an export market development quota only if

• (a) the producer and processor enter into a contract approved by the Agency in respect of eggs marketed pursuant to the export market development quota and the producer agrees to observe the terms and conditions of the contract; or

• (b) the producer, processor and the Agency enter into a contract in respect of eggs marketed under the export market development quota.

Relationship of Federal Quota to Provincial Quota

6 Subject to these Regulations, the quantity of eggs that a producer is authorized to market from a province under a federal quota during the period set out in the schedule shall equal the provincial quota allotted to the producer for that period by the Commodity Board of the province minus the quantity of eggs marketed by the producer in intraprovincial trade in that province during the period.

Limits

• 7 (1) The Commodity Board of a province shall allot federal quotas to producers of that province in such manner that, during the period set out in the schedule, the aggregate of the number of dozens of eggs referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c) will not exceed the applicable number of dozens of eggs set out in column 2 of the schedule in respect of that province:

  • (a) the number of dozens of eggs produced in the province and authorized to be marketed by producers under federal quotas allotted on behalf of the Agency by the Commodity Board of the province;

  • (b) the number of dozens of eggs produced in the province and authorized to be marketed by producers in intraprovincial trade under provincial quotas allotted by the Commodity Board of the province; and

  • (c) the number of dozens of eggs produced in the province and anticipated to be marketed by producers under quota exemptions granted by the Commodity Board of the province.

• (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c), eggs marketed under quota exemptions include

  • (a) eggs marketed by a producer whose flock of hens is below the flock size specified by the Commodity Board of the province as the flock size below which the eggs produced therefrom may be marketed under a quota exemption;

  • (b) hatching eggs authorized by the Commodity Board of the province to be marketed for human consumption; and

  • (c) eggs marketed by any organization that is granted an exemption by the Commodity Board of the province.

7.1 The Commodity Board of a province shall allot egg for processing quotas to producers of that province in such manner that, during the period set out in the schedule, the aggregate of the number of dozens of eggs referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) will not exceed the applicable number of dozens of eggs set out in column 3 of the schedule in respect of that province

• (a) the number of dozen of eggs produced in the province and authorized to be marketed by producers under egg for processing quotas allotted on behalf of the Agency by the Commodity Board of the province, and

• (b) the number of dozen of eggs produced in the province and authorized to be marked by producers in intraprovincial trade under quotas equivalent to those referred to in paragraph (a) allotted by the Commodity Board of the province.

7.2 The Commodity Board of the province in which the designated facilities are located shall, on behalf of the Agency, allot export market development quotas to producers in such a manner that the number of dozens of eggs authorized to be marketed under any such export market development quota during the period set out in the schedule does not exceed the number of dozens of eggs set in column 4 of the schedule in respect of that province.

8 and 9 [Repealed, SOR/86-411, s. 5]