Canadian Communications Law - Broadcasting | Telecommunications | Copyright

David Elder -

Following the registration, three weeks ago, of its new anti-spam regulations, the CRTC has issued a regulatory policy explaining the changes made to the draft regulations that it had originally proposed, as well as providing some guidance as to how some of the requirements will be interpreted.

In Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2012-183, issued to coincide with the publication of the Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations (CRTC) in the Canada Gazette, the Commission notes that many of the changes to the originally proposed version of the Regulations were made in response to public comments, and in most cases were amendments intended to be less prescriptive and more technology neutral.

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David Elder -

Final regulations made by the CRTC under Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (CASL) include a number of revisions that respond to concerns raised by Canadian businesses; but while some additional flexibility has been provided, the Commission appears to have left a number of other concerns unanswered.

On 7 March 2012, the CRTC registered its Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations (CRTC), a final version of draft regulations that were originally proposed in June 2011.  Those regulations, and the related Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations that were proposed by Industry Canada, attracted significant criticism from the business community, which expressed concern that the regulations omitted some important clarifications of the requirements of the law, failed to provide exemptions for certain business and behaviours that should not be caught by the legislation and imposed unworkable and unnecessary requirements that may have had a disproportionate impact on technologies such as text messaging. 

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