Output-Based Pricing System Regulations

Marginal note:Facility visit

• 51 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the person responsible for a covered facility must ensure that their covered facility is visited by an accredited verification body in the following situations:

  • (a) it is the initial verification of the covered facility under these Regulations or by the verification body;

  • (b) two calendar years have passed since a verification body has visited the covered facility for the purposes of verifying an annual report or corrected report;

  • (c) in the last annual report for the covered facility prepared under these Regulations, the verification body made a determination

    • (i) that a material discrepancy exists with respect to the total quantity of GHGs or production reported in the annual report from a specified industrial activity that is used in the calculation of the emissions limit, or

    • (ii) that the annual report was not prepared in accordance with these Regulations; or

  • (d) the verification body is of the opinion a site visit is required.

• Marginal note:Other visits

  (2) If buildings that are used for legal, administrative or management purposes are not located where an industrial activity is carried out, the person responsible for a covered facility must ensure that the verification body visits those buildings if data or information necessary for verifying an annual report or a corrected report is kept in those buildings.