Chemicals Management in Canada

CMP is now the most important issue for coatings companies operating in Canada as the decisions taken by the federal government in evaluating existing and new chemical substances could impact product formulations and ultimately sales. This section provides regularly updated issue tracking for members that on:

1. status of the ongoing chemical Risk Assessments and the data requirements;
2. what Risk Management approaches might result from the final risk assessment;
3. reference Reports and Publications use to help inform the assessment;
4. all of which can be searched by Resource Type in the Coatings Hub Resources.

To help you understand the CMP process and the work CPCA does to help inform the risk assessment/risk management process, you can review the Featured Resources section that includes:

1. outline of the CoatingsHUB Resources;
2. Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan Process;
3. CPCA Compliance Oversight for members;
4. CPCA Submissions;
5. CMP Chemical Substance Tracking;
6. CMP Critical Issue Tracking;
7. Member Actions Required;
8. Chemical Substance Glossary.

In addition to tracking risk assessment and risk management actions by ‘resource type‘, you can also track by each Phase of the CMP process as noted. Please note that CMP-1 and CMP-2 have been completed with several outstanding issues from CMP-2. CPCA’s current focus is on the 540 substances of the 1,550 that are now being evaluated or assessed in CMP-3 and planning for a fourth phase, now referred to as CMP Post-2020.