Regulation respecting mandatory reporting of certain emissions of contaminants into the atmosphere. Country/Territory Canada Territorial subdivision Québec Document type Regulation Date 2007 (2019) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Air & atmosphere, Environment gen. Keyword Air quality/air pollution Emissions Hazardous substances Business/industry/corporations Data collection/reporting Access-to-information Pollution control Geographical area Americas, Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic Abstract This Regulation applies to every operator whose enterprise, facility or establishment emits a contaminant listed in Schedules A and A.1 into the atmosphere at a level that is equal to or greater than the reporting threshold prescribed for the contaminant. In the perspective of ensuring supervision of the quality of the environment in relation to phenomena that increase the greenhouse effect, acid rain, smog and toxic pollution, and of drawing up an inventory of certain contaminants emitted into the atmosphere, this Regulation determines the thresholds over which enterprises, facilities or establishments are required to report their emissions in relation to the contaminants associated with those phenomena. It also determines the information to be provided, including confidential information that is necessary to calculate the quantity of the contaminants emitted, such as data pertaining to production, fuels, raw materials, equipment and processes. Every person or municipality operating establishment that emits a contaminant listed in Part I of Schedule A into the atmosphere in a quantity that reaches or exceeds the reporting threshold set out in that Schedule for the contaminant or category of contaminants must, not later than 1 June of each year, communicate to the Minister by electronic means, using the form available on-line on the website of the Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement, de la Faune et des Parcs, the quantity of each of the contaminants listed in Part I of Schedule A that the establishment emitted into the atmosphere in the preceding calendar year. The operator must also identify the activities, processes or equipment that are the source of contaminant emissions, by specifying separately for each of them the emissions attributable to them, the quantity of fuel and raw materials used and the volume of production that have been used in calculating the quantities of contaminants. Furthermore, the operator must provide the Minister with the methods of calculation or assessment referred to in the second paragraph of section 6 that were used as well as any information relevant to the calculations, including the factors and emission rates used, their source and, if they originate in published documents, the applicable reference. When a facility or an installation changes operator during a year, the operator ceasing to operate must so inform the Minister as soon as possible. Full text English Website www.legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca