# Federal Plastics Registry: residential packaging only until 2027, with 2026 data due 29 September 2027

> The Federal Plastics Registry requires every producer that places 1,000 kg or more of plastic packaging, electronics or single-use plastic products on the Canadian market in a year to report resin, source and kilograms by province and territory for the residential waste stream, with 2026 data due by 29 September 2027 under the Canada Gazette notice of 20 April 2024.

Publisher: Strategic Packaging Insights  
Published: 2026-11-01  
Last updated: 2026-11-01  
Page: https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/insights/federal-plastics-registry-canada-plastic-packaging-reporting/

**The Federal Plastics Registry requires every producer that places 1,000 kg or more of plastic packaging, electronics or single-use plastic products on the Canadian market in a year to report resin, source and kilograms by province and territory for the residential waste stream, with 2026 data due by 29 September 2027 under the Canada Gazette notice of 20 April 2024.**

Strategic Packaging Insights (SPI) read the CEPA section 46 notice, the 14 March 2026 amending notice and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) guidance to map who reports, what goes in a return and which dates bind. The finding: the March 2026 amendment froze the 2025 and 2026 reports at the 2024 scope, so business-to-business packaging, resin makers and waste managers stay out until a new notice for 2027 to 2029, which ECCC has announced but not yet published.

## Executive summary

Canada has no national packaging fee, but it does have a national packaging data duty. The Federal Plastics Registry is a notice under subsection 46(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA), published in the Canada Gazette on 20 April 2024, that requires producers, resin makers, waste generators and service providers to report on plastic placed on the market and managed in Canada. [Ledger 12](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/insights/canada-packaging-epr-by-province/) set out who pays for packaging in each province; this piece covers the federal return that sits on top of all of them.

The registry is now smaller than it was meant to be. The 2024 notice phased in business-to-business packaging, resin quantities, waste generated at facilities and end-of-life data for the 2025 and 2026 calendar years. The amending notice of 14 March 2026 rewrote Schedule 5 so that 2025 and 2026 returns ask for exactly what 2024 asked for: packaging, electronic and electrical equipment and single-use products destined for the residential waste stream (Exhibit 2).

Who reports is set by a four-step producer order in Schedule 2: the Canadian-resident brand owner first, then the first resident importer or manufacturer, then the retailer, with marketplace facilitators deemed producers for their sellers (Exhibit 3). The 1,000 kg national threshold has no revenue test, so it reaches companies that Ontario and British Columbia exempt (Exhibit 4).

What goes in a return is a grid. By SPI's calculation, a producer selling every type of Part 3 packaging in every resin, source and province would file up to 9,568 market lines; a national food brand in SPI's base profile would file 400 (Exhibit 7). The data does not include business-to-business packaging, which ECCC's own 2023 technical paper put at about half of Canada's plastic waste (Exhibit 9).

For producers the dates are fixed and close. The 2026 data year closes in 60 days, and its return is due on 29 September 2027. ECCC's reporting system went offline on 31 October 2026 for a move to its Regulatory Services Platform. Leaders should lock the producer order brand by brand, align provincial and federal tonnages, and put a position into the 2027 to 2029 consultation before ECCC fixes the next scope.

## Key findings

1. The registry rests on CEPA subsection 46(1), an information power, not on the Schedule 1 toxic listing behind the single-use plastics ban; the notice of 20 April 2024 sets 29 September 2025, 2026 and 2027 as due dates for 2024, 2025 and 2026 data (Canada Gazette).
2. The amending notice of 14 March 2026 replaced paragraphs 2 to 7 of Schedule 5, so 2025 and 2026 returns cover Schedule 4 sections (1) to (6) and (8) only, for Schedule 1 Parts 1 to 3 and Part 4 categories 1 and 8; its explanatory note says phases 2 and 3 are postponed.
3. Phase 1 packaging data is residential only: section (8) asks for kilograms of packaging and products destined for the residential waste stream, by resin, resin source, category, subcategory and each province and territory, and ECCC's guide confirms the residential limit.
4. The threshold is 1,000 kg of plastic products or packaging placed on the Canadian market per calendar year, counted nationally, with no revenue test (Schedule 3; ECCC guide).
5. **SPI calculation:**  Schedule 1 has 8 packaging subcategories, 23 resin types and 4 resin sources; across 13 provinces and territories that is a maximum of 9,568 market lines for packaging alone.
6. A company other than an individual or small revenue corporation faces fines of up to CAD 500,000 on indictment for a first offence and CAD 1,000,000 for a later one under CEPA subsection 272.1(3).
7. **SPI analysis:**  the notice of intent for 2027 to 2029 is the decision point. ECCC said it would seek stakeholder views but, on its page modified 27 October 2026, gives only an email route and no comment period.

## What the Federal Plastics Registry is, and what it is not

The registry is an information-gathering notice, not a regulation. Subsection 46(1) of CEPA lets the Minister of the Environment publish a notice requiring named persons to provide information they hold or can reasonably access, for research, inventories, objectives and codes of practice, guidelines and reporting on the state of the environment. The 2024 notice cites those purposes and states that the Minister intends to publish part of the information on resins and plastic products received in response.

That legal base matters for two reasons. First, the registry sets no fee, target or design rule; it only asks for data. Second, it does not depend on the order that added plastic manufactured items to the CEPA list of toxic substances. That order is the subject of docket 42277 at the Supreme Court of Canada, which SPI News covered in [its report on the plastics toxic listing appeal](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/news/canada-supreme-court-plastics-toxic-listing-appeal/). The appeal could reopen the six-item ban in [PR-CA-001](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/canada/pr-ca-001/); it does not touch the subsection 46(1) power behind [PR-CA-002](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/canada/pr-ca-002/).

ECCC's stated aim is a life-cycle data set. Its April 2023 technical paper said the registry would provide baseline data for provincial and territorial extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs and inform the zero plastic waste agenda, and its registry page lists ten sector categories from plastic resins and packaging to tires, construction, fishing and aquaculture, and textiles and apparel. Only three of those ten are reportable through 2026.

The gap the registry fills is real. Canada publishes no national figure for packaging placed on the market. The closest measure, Statistics Canada's physical flow account released on 26 March 2026, counts 5,152 kilotonnes of plastic discarded in 2022, of which 98.6% was collected and 1,098 kilotonnes went to material recovery. Packaging made up 84.4% of the 428 kilotonnes of plastic sorted and baled, yet recycled plastic packaging fell by 12.1% that year (SPI country profile CA). The registry is meant to show what enters that system, by resin and province.

SPI analysis

Read the registry as the federal government's measuring tape for future policy, not as a compliance box. The data a producer files in 2027 on 2026 sales is the data ECCC will hold when it designs the 2027 to 2029 notice and, through the technical paper's stated aim, when provinces calibrate EPR. A producer that files estimates it cannot defend is shaping the baseline against itself.

## Phase 2 and phase 3 postponed: what the March 2026 amendment changed

The 2024 notice was built to grow. Its Schedule 5 had the 2024 calendar year cover Schedule 4 sections (1) to (6) and (8): certification, online submission, designation of a reporter, administrative details and the quantity of packaging and products destined for the residential waste stream. For 2025 it added resin quantities by province (section 7), business-to-business primary packaging for the industrial, commercial and institutional (ICI) and construction streams (section 9), waste generated at facilities (section 10) and end-of-life collection and fate (section 11). For 2026 it extended section (11) to more categories, including tires.

Industry pressure changed that path. Law firm bulletins dated 6 and 9 January 2026 report that ECCC announced on 19 December 2025 that phases 2 and 3 would be delayed, citing stakeholder feedback on the complexity of reporting; SPI has not yet confirmed that announcement on an ECCC page. The legal change came in the Canada Gazette, Part I, on 14 March 2026.

The amending notice did not move any due date in the text SPI read. ECCC's registry page, modified on 27 October 2026, describes Phase 1 reports as due in 2025, 2026 and 2027 on 2024, 2025 and 2026 data, and states that resin manufacturers, waste generators and service providers are not required to report for the 2025 and 2026 calendar years.

SPI analysis

The amendment did two things at once. It removed work, and it removed the only part of the registry that would have measured packaging sold between businesses. A converter shipping pallet wrap to a distribution centre, or a brand owner selling bulk packs to food service, has no federal packaging line to file through 2026. That is relief now, but it also means the first time ECCC asks for ICI data will be under a notice whose content is still open.

## Who reports: the producer order, brand by brand

Schedule 3 of the notice names four groups of persons who must report. For packaging only one group matters through 2026: a person who is a producer of plastic products listed in Schedule 1, Parts 3 or 4. Schedule 2 then defines producer in an order that is applied product by product.

ECCC's Phase 1 guide adds working rules. Non-resident companies do not report on imports; the Canadian importer does, and ECCC provides a letter for importers to request composition data from foreign suppliers. One producer may file one report covering all its brands. Municipalities that distribute packaging for a brand holder do not report it.

The order matters most for groups with several Canadian entities. A multinational with a Canadian subsidiary that holds the brand reports through that entity; one whose brand is held abroad reports through whichever entity first imports or manufactures in Canada. The notice also lets a producer designate a producer responsibility organisation (PRO) or another person to report on its behalf under Schedule 4, section (3), but ECCC's page is clear that the producer stays responsible for the accuracy of what is filed.

In practice: General Mills.

The SPI Buyers Database profile lists General Mills Canada Corporation among the subsidiaries in the group's Exhibit 21.1 filing, with cartons and film under Ontario, British Columbia and Québec EPR and plastic packaging reportable under [PR-CA-002](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/canada/pr-ca-002/). Which entity holds each brand in Canada decides who files under row 1 of Exhibit 3; SPI has not yet confirmed that from the group's Canadian filings.

In practice: Walmart.

The SPI Buyers Database profile records that Walmart Canada stores are primarily single-use plastic bag-free and that private-brand packaging carries producer responsibility in Ontario, British Columbia and Québec. Under the order, a retailer is first in line for its own private brands as the resident brand owner, and third in line for branded goods with no resident brand owner or importer. SPI has not yet confirmed whether Walmart's Canadian marketplace sellers fall under row 4.

## Federal threshold versus provincial thresholds

The federal threshold is low and simple. Schedule 3, section (5) exempts a person that manufactures, imports or places on the market less than 1,000 kg of plastic products or packaging in a calendar year, and ECCC's guide says the figure is counted nationally across all operations. Separate 1,000 kg tests apply to waste generated at a facility and plastic managed by service providers, but those groups are not required to report for 2025 and 2026.

ECCC itself pointed to provincial examples when it designed the registry: its 2023 technical paper cites CAD 1 million in gross annual revenue and one tonne placed on the market as examples of small business thresholds in use. The final notice kept only a weight test.

SPI analysis

A brand owner with CAD 1.5 million of Ontario sales and 1,200 kg of plastic packaging placed in Canada would be exempt from Ontario's producer requirements on revenue, yet over the federal line on weight. The reverse case also exists: a company with large paper and glass volumes but under 1,000 kg of plastic has provincial duties and no federal one. Groups should run the two tests side by side for each legal entity, not assume the provincial answer carries over.

## Federal Plastics Registry reporting deadlines: 2025, 2026 and 2027

The notice fixes three dates in its body: information on the 2024 calendar year is due no later than 29 September 2025, on 2025 no later than 29 September 2026, and on 2026 no later than 29 September 2027. Returns go through ECCC's online system, and each needs a certification statement under Schedule 4, section (1).

Two recent changes affect the platform rather than the law. ECCC's page states that the reporting system is temporarily unavailable from 31 October 2026 for maintenance and modernisation, and that users will then be redirected to the Regulatory Services Platform. It also set a cut-off for corrections to past returns:

> "If you need to review or amend your 2024 or 2025 reports, please do so by 11:59 pm Eastern Time (ET) on October 30, 2026."

***Environment and Climate Change Canada** , [Federal Plastics Registry](https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/managing-reducing-waste/reduce-plastic-waste/federal-plastics-registry.html), page modified 27 October 2026*

SPI has not yet confirmed when the system will reopen or whether returns already filed will carry over to the new platform in a form producers can amend. A producer that found an error in its 2025 return after 30 October should keep a written record of the correction and raise it with ECCC by email.

Deadlines can move for one company. Subsection 46(6) of CEPA lets the Minister, on written request from a person to whom the notice applies, extend the date by which that person must comply. Law firm bulletins from September 2025 describe ECCC's process for the first round: a letter on company letterhead signed by an officer, with legal name, business number, reasons and a proposed new date, sent to the registry's email, with a decision within 10 business days. SPI has not yet confirmed that process on an ECCC page or any general extension of the 29 September 2026 deadline.

## What goes in a packaging return

Schedule 1 defines the grid. Part 1 lists 23 resin types by North American Product Classification System code, from PET and the polyethylenes to bio-based and biodegradable thermoplastics and thermosets. Part 2 lists four resin sources: virgin fossil-based, virgin bio-based, post-consumer recycled and post-industrial recycled. Part 3 covers plastic packaging, filled and unfilled, in eight subcategories.

ECCC's guide sets the practical rules. Manufacturers and importers report unfilled packaging; those who fill packaging and place it on the market report filled packaging, and ECCC treats the two as separate data points rather than double counting. Producers may use their own estimation method, a provincial method such as the one used for Blue Box reporting, or one of three methods the guide names: specific component identification, average bill of materials or fixed factor. The method and its assumptions must be disclosed, and whole kilograms are acceptable.

> "Phase 1 reporting to the FPR is on packaging and products that are assumed to be entering the residential waste stream only."

***Environment and Climate Change Canada** , [Guide for reporting to the Federal Plastics Registry, Phase 1](https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/managing-reducing-waste/reduce-plastic-waste/federal-plastics-registry/guide-reporting-phase-1.html), modified 22 May 2025*

Confidentiality is narrow. Under CEPA section 51, a reporter may ask in writing, with its submission and by the deadline, for information to be treated as confidential, citing a reason under section 52; the Minister may still disclose under subsection 53(3). ECCC's guide says claims are made in the portal with a rationale, and that province, category, subcategory and residential or ICI status are generally not expected to be confidential.

SPI analysis

The filled versus unfilled rule is what makes converters reporters. A Canadian film or bottle maker that sells unfilled packaging to brand owners reports that packaging as a manufacturer, and the brand owner reports the same packaging again once filled. Converters should not assume their customers' returns cover them.

## A framework: six reporter archetypes

Applying Exhibits 3 to 5 to the companies SPI tracks gives six archetypes. Each one answers three questions: is it a producer under Schedule 2, is its plastic in a Phase 1 category, and is that plastic headed for the residential stream.

The archetypes overlap in real groups. A food company can be A for its own brands, B for an imported line and D if it makes its own preforms. The test is applied to each product, so a single legal entity may hold several archetypes at once.

SPI analysis

Archetype E is the one most exposed to the next notice. Through 2026 it mostly has nothing to report federally, but section (9) of the 2024 notice already shows the shape of the ICI question: primary packaging sold business to business, by resin, source, subcategory and province. Companies in E should build that data now, while the format is known and the deadline is not.

## Scenarios: how many lines a packaging return could hold

The grid in Exhibit 5 sets an upper bound. SPI built three illustrative profiles to show how quickly a return grows, using only the dimensions in the notice. Each is a count of possible market lines, not a forecast of effort or cost.

Most real returns will hold far fewer filled cells than the grid allows, because many resin and source combinations are zero. The work lies in proving the zeros and the splits. A national food brand selling PET bottles, PP tubs and multilayer film needs to know, per province, how much of each was virgin and how much post-consumer recycled, and to document how it estimated the provincial split.

SPI analysis

The base profile's 400 lines are manageable if the data already exists for provincial EPR. Ontario's annual supply report to the Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA) already asks for weights by Blue Box category, and B.C. and Québec ask for their own splits. The federal return adds resin type and resin source, which most provincial reports do not require, so the gap to close is resin data, not tonnage.

## What the registry does not see: the ICI half

The residential limit is a large one. ECCC's April 2023 technical paper cited an ECCC study estimating that ICI sources made up 50% of plastic waste in 2016, or 55% including construction waste, and Statistics Canada data showing ICI sources at 58% of all waste in 2018.

> "The registry will serve to improve our knowledge of plastic waste, value recovery, and pollution across Canada."

***Environment and Climate Change Canada** , [Technical paper: Federal Plastics Registry](https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/canadian-environmental-protection-act-registry/technical-paper-federal-plastics-registry.html), 18 April 2023*

SPI analysis

Through 2026 the registry will measure the stream that provincial EPR already measures, residential packaging, and not the stream that no province measures in full. That makes the first three years of data more useful for reconciling with provincial reports than for new policy. It also means a 2027 to 2029 notice that restores section (9) would be the first national data on business packaging.

## How the federal return fits the provincial calendar

The registry does not replace any provincial report, and none replaces it. Schedule 4 asks the federal reporter about EPR and PRO participation, which links the two data sets ([PR-CA-002](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/canada/pr-ca-002/)). Tracker records [PR-CA-003](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/canada/pr-ca-003/), [PR-CA-004](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/canada/pr-ca-004/) and [PR-CA-006](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/canada/pr-ca-006/) give the provincial dates.

In practice: Ontario Blue Box.

RPRA's producers page sets 31 May each year for the supply data report on the previous calendar year, across beverage containers, glass, flexible plastic, rigid plastic, metal, paper and certified compostable products, with a brand supply list and the program fee. On 27 October 2026 Ontario proposed in ERO notice 026-1058 to make PROs publish fees and asked whether flexible plastic should stay in the Blue Box, as SPI covered in [its report on the Ontario proposal](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/news/ontario-blue-box-flexible-plastic-pro-fee-transparency-november-26/). If flexible plastic left the provincial system, Ontario producers would still report it federally, because the notice's flexible subcategories do not depend on provincial scope.

SPI analysis

The 121 days between 31 May and 29 September are the window to reconcile. A producer that files Ontario plastic weights in May and federal Ontario lines in September from a different data pull invites questions from both regulators. One data set, frozen in May and enriched with resin and source data for September, is the cleaner route.

## Enforcement and records

CEPA section 272.1 sets the offence for failing to comply with an obligation under the Act, and for negligently giving false information or filing a document with false information. ECCC's registry page cites subsections 272.1(2) to (4) for the registry and notes that maximums double for repeat offences. The fines are maximums, with no minimum, and are in Canadian dollars.

ECCC's page asks that suspected violations be reported to its enforcement contact. The registry page, as SPI read it on 1 November 2026, lists no prosecution for non-reporting.

Records run on a fixed clock. The notice requires copies of the information and the calculations, measurements and other data behind it to be kept for three years from the date the information is required to be submitted, which is the cap subsection 46(8) of CEPA allows. Records may be kept at a parent company in Canada if its civic address is given to the Minister.

## Industry reaction

The postponement came from the regulator's own text rather than from a public industry campaign SPI could cite. The Canada Gazette explanatory note is direct:

> "The amendments are made to reflect that the reporting due date for phases 2 and 3 of the Federal Plastics Registry has been postponed."

***Environment and Climate Change Canada** , [Canada Gazette, Part I, explanatory note to the amending notice](https://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2026/2026-03-14/html/notice-avis-eng.html), 14 March 2026*

The same issue carries the notice of intent for the next cycle, which says the Minister intends to issue a new notice to continue information gathering for 2027, 2028 and 2029 and to seek stakeholders' views on its content. ECCC's page invites input by email to the registry, under a subject line that names the consultation on the new notice for reporting years 2027, 2028 and 2029.

Law firms advising producers have described the first cycle. A Norton Rose Fulbright review of Phase 1 reporting said ECCC guidance clarified that only entities with product data to report in a phase must also file the administrative sections, that non-resident importers have no registry obligation, and that confidentiality requests it drafted had not yet received ECCC responses. Bulletins by Blakes and McCarthy Tétrault in January 2026 said ECCC planned the new notice for summer 2026; on 1 November 2026, SPI has not yet confirmed any published text.

## What leaders should do now

1. **Regulatory affairs, by 31 December 2026:**  map every brand sold in Canada to its Schedule 2 producer, entity by entity, and record where a foreign brand owner leaves the duty with a Canadian importer or retailer.
2. **Packaging data teams, by 31 March 2027:**  build the 2026 resin and resin source split for each of the eight Part 3 subcategories and each province and territory, and request composition data from foreign suppliers using ECCC's letter.
3. **Sustainability and EPR leads, by 31 May 2027:**  freeze one 2026 tonnage set for Ontario's supply report and reuse it for the federal return, adding resin and source fields rather than pulling new totals.
4. **Converters, by 30 June 2027:**  confirm whether you report unfilled packaging as a manufacturer, and agree with brand owner customers how filled and unfilled data will be described.
5. **Public affairs, when ECCC opens consultation:**  send a written position on the 2027 to 2029 notice, especially on whether section (9) ICI packaging returns and on the lead time between a final notice and the first data year.
6. **Finance and compliance, before 29 September 2027:**  decide whether to designate a PRO or other reporter, file any extension request under CEPA subsection 46(6) early, and keep records to the Exhibit 12 dates.

## Questions for your board

- Which of our Canadian entities is the producer for each brand, and who signed off on that mapping?
- Do our Ontario, B.C., Québec and federal returns use one tonnage set or several?
- Could we defend our resin source split, especially any post-consumer recycled share, if ECCC asked for the calculation?
- Which of our products are in archetype E today, and what would a 2027 ICI return cost us to build?
- Have we taken a position on the 2027 to 2029 notice, and who is putting it to ECCC?
- If ECCC publishes part of the data, as the 2024 notice says it intends to, what would our figures show?

## What to watch

- **No date set:**  ECCC's reporting system returns on the Regulatory Services Platform after the outage that began on 31 October 2026.
- **No date set:**  consultation on the new notice for 2027, 2028 and 2029, announced on 14 March 2026.
- **No date set:**  Supreme Court of Canada hearing in docket 42277 on the toxic listing behind [PR-CA-001](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/canada/pr-ca-001/), after leave was granted on 15 October 2026; it does not change the registry's legal base.
- **31 Dec 2026:**  the 2026 calendar year, the last data year under the 2024 notice, closes.
- **31 May 2027:**  Ontario Blue Box supply reports on 2026 data, the first reconciliation point.
- **29 Sep 2027:**  Federal Plastics Registry returns on 2026 data are due.
- **2028:**  first reporting under the 2027 to 2029 notice, if ECCC keeps the pattern of filing the year after the data year; SPI has not yet confirmed any due date.
- **29 Sep 2030:**  record-keeping period ends for 2026 data returns.

## Methodology

- **Data used:**  SPI rule [PR-CA-002](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/canada/pr-ca-002/) and country profile CA in the [SPI Regulation Tracker](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/canada/pr-ca-002/), with [PR-CA-001](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/canada/pr-ca-001/), [PR-CA-003](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/canada/pr-ca-003/), [PR-CA-004](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/canada/pr-ca-004/) and [PR-CA-006](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/canada/pr-ca-006/) for provincial and court context, and SPI Buyers Database profiles for General Mills and Walmart. Primary texts: the Canada Gazette notices of 20 April 2024 and 14 March 2026, CEPA sections 46 and 272.1, ECCC's registry page (modified 27 October 2026), its Phase 1 guide (modified 22 May 2025) and its April 2023 technical paper; RPRA's producers page; Statistics Canada's 26 March 2026 release. Consulted 1 November 2026 unless stated.
- **Notice text:**  the 2024 notice is long and shares its Gazette issue with other notices. Schedule summaries in Exhibits 2, 3 and 5 are SPI's reading of the published text; check with the Gazette or counsel before relying on a section number.
- **Counting rules:**  resin types, sources and subcategories are counted by SPI from Schedule 1. Market lines in Exhibits 7 and 8 multiply the dimensions in the notice; they are illustrative and are not a measure of time or cost.
- **Penalties:**  ECCC's registry page cites CEPA subsections 272.1(2) to (4); its Phase 1 guide refers to section 272. SPI uses the registry page and the statute.
- **Secondary sources:**  law firm bulletins by Blakes, McCarthy Tétrault, Norton Rose Fulbright and WeirFoulds are used only for the December 2025 announcement date, the January 2026 timetable and the first-cycle extension process, each marked where SPI has not yet confirmed it on an ECCC page.
- **Limitations:**  ECCC had published no data from the registry and no text of the 2027 to 2029 notice by 1 November 2026. Provincial thresholds for provinces other than Ontario and British Columbia are in [Ledger 12](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/insights/canada-packaging-epr-by-province/). This is business analysis, not legal advice; check with counsel.

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