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- Assessment of substances
- Managing substances
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- The use of the precautionary principle in assessment and management of substances
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- Measuring success
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- Meeting the goals of CEPA
- State of the environment reporting, monitoring for outcomes
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- International activities
- Assessment of substances
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- Are there lessons to be learned from other jurisdictions?
- Should CEPA recognize international decisions?
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- Assessment of substances
- Managing substances
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- Improving timelines for assessments and implementation of management tools
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- Assessment of substances
- Managing substances
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- Defining and implementing Virtual Elimination (including “level of quantification”)
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- Assessment of substances
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- Taking into account vulnerable populations and ecosystems
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- Assessment of substances
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- Assessing substances with different inherent toxicities, use of “toxic”
- Regulations for Food and Drug Act substances (in-commerce list, see also meeting 10 — legislative clarity)
- What to do with the Domestic Substance List screening results
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- Assessment of substances
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- What information requirements are necessary?
- How much information should be publicly disclosed?
- Should industry or government bare the burden of proof?
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- Managing substances
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- How can the Act be better enforced?
- Should the public participation aspects (civil suits) be changed?
- What are the most appropriate tools to apply (regulation, guidelines, pollution prevention plans etc.)
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- Cooperation with the provinces, territories and aboriginal peoples
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- Aboriginal points of view
- National Advisory Committee
- Equivalency Agreements
- Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment
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- Interdepartmental cooperation and legislative overlap
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- Are there clearly defined roles for departments?
- Is there legislative clarity?
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