RECOMMENDATION

Her Excellency the Governor General recommends to the House of Commons the appropriation of public revenue under the circumstances, in the manner and for the purposes set out in a measure entitled ``An Act to protect human health and safety and the environment by regulating products used for the control of pests''.

SUMMARY

This enactment replaces the Pest Control Products Act.

The enactment provides a pest control product registration regime that gives the Minister of Health the necessary powers to ensure that pest control products are registered only if their risks and value are determined by the Minister to be acceptable.

The enactment provides further protection of health, safety and the environment by requiring that, after a product is registered, new information about risks and value be reported, by authorizing the special review and re-evaluation of registered pest control products and by giving inspectors power to take measures to prevent risks.

In addition, the enactment provides for public participation in the regulatory process by requiring that the public be consulted before significant registration decisions are made and by providing the public with the right to request and participate in the reconsideration of decisions. It also gives the public access to certain information provided in relation to registered pest control products.