Passenger Automobile and Light Truck Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulations (SOR/2010-201)

Marginal note:Nitrous oxide and methane emission standards

• 10. (1) Subject to subsection (2) and section 12, passenger automobiles and light trucks of the 2012 or subsequent model years must conform to the exhaust emission standards for nitrous oxide (N₂O) and methane (CH₄) set out in section 1818 of Title 40, chapter I, subchapter C, part 86, subpart S, of the CFR, for the applicable model year.

• Marginal note:Fleet emission calculation

  (2) Instead of complying with subsection (1), a company may elect to include the exhaust emissions of nitrous oxide (N₂O) and methane (CH₄) of its passenger automobiles and light trucks of a model year when calculating their carbon-related exhaust emission value as set out in subsection 18(3) in respect of each of its fleets of that model year.

• Marginal note:Election applicable to all models

  (3) A company that makes an election under subsection (2) must ensure that it applies to all models of passenger automobiles and light trucks that it manufactures or imports.

Marginal note:Interpretation of standards

11. The standards referred to in section 10 are the certification and in-use standards at the applicable useful life, and include the test procedures, fuels and calculation methods set out for those standards in subpart B of Title 40, chapter I, subchapter C, part 86, of the CFR.

Marginal note:EPA certificate

• 12. (1) Every vehicle of a specific model year that is covered by an EPA certificate and that is sold concurrently in Canada and the United States must conform to, instead of the standards set out in sections 9 and 10, the certification and in-use standards referred to in the EPA certificate.

• Marginal note:Subsection 153(3) of the Act

  (2) For the purposes of subsection 153(3) of the Act, the provisions of the CFR that are applicable to a vehicle referred to in subsection (1), pursuant to the EPA certificate, correspond to the certification and in-use standards referred to in subsection (1).

• Marginal note:EPA

  (3) For the purposes of subsection 153(3) of the Act, the EPA is the prescribed agency.

Marginal note:Requirements respecting CO₂ equivalent emissions

13. Subject to sections 14, 20 and 21, a company must ensure that the fleet average CO₂ equivalent emission value for each fleet of its passenger automobiles and fleet of its light trucks of the 2011 and subsequent model years does not exceed the applicable fleet average CO₂ equivalent emission standard for the model year in question.

Marginal note:Non application of the standards respecting CO₂ equivalent emissions

• 14. (1) A company that manufactured or imported in total less than 750 passenger automobiles and light trucks for either the 2008 or 2009 model years for sale in Canada is not subject to sections 13 and 17 to 20 for vehicles of the 2012 model year or vehicles of a subsequent model year provided that

  • (a) its average number of passenger automobiles and light trucks manufactured or imported for sale in Canada for the three most recent consecutive model years preceding the model year in question is less than 750; and

  • (b) the company submits a declaration as set out in section 35.

• Marginal note:Conditions

  (2) If a company’s average number of passenger automobiles and light trucks for the three most recent consecutive model years, that are manufactured or imported for sale in Canada, are equal to or more than 750 — other than by reason of the company purchasing another company —, the company becomes subject to sections 13, 17 to 20, and sections 32 to 33, for its passenger automobiles and light trucks of the following model year:

  • (a) if that average number is less than 7,500, that of the second model year after the last model year used to establish the average number; or

  • (b) if that average number is equal to or greater than 7,500, that of the model year after the last model year used to establish the average number.