Canada-US Regulatory Cooperation Council Webinars

Submitted by admin on Fri, 01/24/2014 - 18:31

Ongoing stakeholder engagement is an important part of the Canada-United States Regulatory Cooperation Council’s (RCC) work.

Canada and U.S. working group leads will be holding jointly-planned and executed webinars to allow stakeholders more opportunities to simultaneously interact on RCC issues with the officials from both countries who are directly responsible for the implementation of the 29 initiatives included in the initial Canada-United States RCC Joint Action Plan.

These webinars will provide updates on work plan progress, and allow you to directly engage with leads and technical staff. These webinars will be held quarterly and are in response to stakeholder requests for deeper engagement. They also facilitate the involvement of regionally-based firms and associations or others who may not be able to attend outreach and engagement meetings in person...

Each webinar will run approximately 60 minutes and include the following agenda items:

  1. Brief overview of the initiative and initial objectives
  2. Progress update (on track, ahead, behind)
  3. Key issues / barriers / challenges and planned solutions to address them
  4. Update on ongoing alignment / cooperative arrangements work
  5. Plans for the next quarter
  6. Questions & Answers

The following webinars are currently being planned...

Agriculture and Food

Equivalence of meat safety systems (Working Group 1)
Meat and Poultry Product Export Certification (Working Group 2)
Meat cut nomenclature (Working Group 5)
Agriculture and Food
Perimeter approach to plant protection (Working Group 4)
Crop protection (Working Group 10)
Mutual reliance on food safety testing (Working Group 8)
Financial protection to produce sellers (Working Group 6)

Health

Globally Harmonized System - Workplace Hazardous chemicals (Working Group 27)

Environment

Emission standards for light duty vehicles (Working Group 25)
Air Pollutants (Working Group 26)

Transport

Existing motor vehicle safety standards (Working Group 14)
New motor vehicle safety standards (Working Group 15)
Marine transportation security regulations (Working Group 21)
Regulatory oversight regime (Great Lakes and Seaway) (Working Group 22)
Life Saving Appliances (Working Group 23)
Construction standards for small craft (Working Group 24)
Intelligent Transportation Systems (Working Group 18)
Locomotive emissions (Working Group 19)
Unmanned aircraft systems (Working Group 20)

Small Business Lens

Small Business Lens (Working Group 29)

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology (Working Group 28)

For webinar schedules and registration, please visit the the Action Plan website at: http://actionplan.gc.ca/en/page/rcc-ccr/rcc-action-plan-webinars.