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WORLD TRADE S/NGMTS/W/ 2/Add.5/Supp.1
24April 1995
ORGANIZATION(95-0983)
Original: English Negotiating Group onMaritime Transport Services
COMMUNICATION FROM CANADA
Supplementary Information ontheCanadian Response totheQuestionnaire
onMaritime Transport Services
Supplement
Withreference todocument S/NGMTS/W/2/Add.5, thefollowing supplementary information
iscirculated attherequest ofCanada tomembers oftheNegotiating Group onMaritime Transport
Services.
PartIQuestion 7:
Approximately 46percentoflinerimports and34percentoflinerexports handled atCanadian
ports arecarried byshipping linesthataremembers ofvessel/space sharing agreements.
PartIIQuestion 1:
National Transportation Agency:
- administers theShipping Conferences Exemption Act
Bureau ofCompetition Policy (Dept. ofIndustry):
- ability toinitiate inquiries intoanticompetitive conference practices
Department ofIndustry:
- investment reviews
Canadian Coast Guard:
- development, implementation andenforcement ofsafety, technical andpollution
regulations
- rescue andenvironmental response
- search andrescue
- pollution clean-up
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- provision ofmarine navigation services
- aidstonavigation
- waterways development andmaintenance
- vessel traffic services
- icebreaking
- operation ofpublic harbours serving remote, single access communities
Department ofCitizenship andImmigration:
- development, implementation andenforcement ofimmigration regulations applicable
toallsectors
Departure ofAgriculture:
- setsandenforces standards tosafeguard human, animal andplant health
Department ofHealth:
- responsible fortheQuarantine Actandregulations
PartIIQuestion 11:
Conditions under which Canadian vessels arerequired toflytheCanadian flagpursuant to
subsection 92(1) oftheCanada Shipping Act:
- upon being hailed byoneofHerMajesty 'sships (i.e.anaval vessel) oranyother
Government ship;
- upon entering orleaving anyforeign port, and;
- iftheshipisover50GRT, upon entering orleaving anyCommonwealth port.