10. Temporary exemptions

10.1 The Supervision Program Coordinator may grant a temporary exemption to businesses whose products have been certified by a CARTV-certified body but whose information concerning the labels’ reserved designation does not meet the requirements of the applicable reference manual.

10.2 Businesses that sell the said products must therefore submit exemption requests.

10.3 Businesses that submit exemption requests must provide the following required information:

• Name of product
• Trademark
• Name of supplier
• UPC or PLU codes
• Date of sampling
• Name of certifier
• Problem related to labelling

10.4 While waiting for its label to become compliant, the product is then placed on the CARTV Register of Certified Products Granted Temporary Exemptions and may be marketed until the prescribed expiration date. After this date, the product’s label must be compliant.

10.5 Each exemption request submitted to the CARTV is subject to administration fees, unless it pertains to an exempted product. These fees must be paid in full at the time of the request. Appendix A of these regulations contains the fee scale.