Fisheries and Oceans Canada 2017 to 2018 Fees Report © Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, 2018 2017 to 2018 Fees Report Cat. No. Fs1-86E-PDF ISSN 2562-0827 2017 to 2018 Fees Report Table of Contents Minister’s Message ..................................................................................................... 1 General Fees Information ............................................................................................ 3 General and Financial Information by Fee Category ................................................................... 3 Access to Information ...................................................................................................... 3 Fisheries Management – Licensing Fee ........................................................................... 4 Fisheries Management – Pacific Salmon Conservation Stamp ........................................ 5 Hydrography .................................................................................................................... 5 Icebreaking Services Fee .................................................................................................. 6 Maintenance Dredging Services Tonnage Fee ................................................................. 7 Marine Navigation Services Fee ...................................................................................... 7 Financial Totals for All Fee Categories ........................................................................................ 8 Fees Under the Department’s Authority..................................................................................... 8 Endnotes .................................................................................................................. 25 Fisheries and Oceans Canada Page i 2017 to 2018 Fees Report Minister’s Message On behalf of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Canadian Coast Guard (Coast Guard), I am pleased to present the 2017 to 2018 Fees Report. On June 22, 2017, the Service Fees Acti received royal assent, thereby repealing the User Fees Actii. The Service Fees Act introduces a modern legislative framework that enables cost-effective delivery of services and, through enhanced reporting to Parliament, improved transparency and oversight. The act provides for: a streamlined approach to consultation and the approval of new or modified fees a requirement for services to have service standards and reporting against these standards, along with a policy to remit fees to fee payers when standards are not met an automatic annual fee adjustment by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to ensure that fees keep pace with inflation annual detailed reporting to Parliament in order to increase transparency This 2017 to 2018 Fees Report is the first report to be prepared under the Service Fees Act. The report includes new information such as a detailed listing of all fees along with future year fee amounts. Additional fee information will be included starting next fiscal year, once DFO and the Coast Guard fully transition to the Service Fees Act regime. I welcome the increased transparency and oversight that the Service Fees Act’s reporting regime embodies, and I am fully committed to transitioning my department to this modern framework. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, P.C., M.P. Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Fisheries and Oceans Canada Page 1 2017 to 2018 Fees Report General Fees Information The tables that follow provide information on each category of fees, including: the name of the fee category the date that the fee (or fee category) was introduced and last amended (if applicable) service standards performance results against these standards financial information regarding total costs, total revenues and remissions In addition to the information presented by fee category, there is a summary of the financial information for all fees as well as a listing of fees under the department’s authority. This listing includes the existing fee dollar amounts and the adjusted dollar fee amount for a future year. General and Financial Information by Fee Category Access to Information General Information Fee Category Access to Information Fee-setting Authority Access to Information Actiii, section 11 Year Introduced 1983 Year Last Amended 1992 Service Standard Response provided within 30 days following receipt of request. The response time may be extended pursuant to section 9 of the Access to Information Activ. Notice of extension to be sent within 30 days after receipt of request. Additional details can be found in the Access to Information Act. Performance Results During 2017-18, 99% of access requests were processed within the legislated timeframes. Other Information In 2016, the Treasury Board issued a directive clarifying that institutions are permitted to charge only the initial application fee of $5. Fees for the search or production of records are to be waived. As a result, and in line with the Interim Directive on the Administration of the Access to Information Act, all fees, apart from the $5 application fee, are waived by Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Fisheries and Oceans Canada Page 3 2017 to 2018 Fees Report Financial Information (dollars) 2016 to 2017 2017 to 2018 2017 to 2018 2017 to 2018 Revenue Revenue Cost1 Remissions2 2,480 2,2553 2,765,015 n/a Fisheries Management – Licensing Fee General Information Fee Category Fisheries Management – Licensing Fee Fee-setting Authority Fisheries Actv Year Introduced 1985 Year Last Amended 2016 Service Standard As per published Licensing Service Standardsvi Performance Results As per published Performance Resultsvii Other Information n/a Financial Information (dollars) 2016 to 2017 2017 to 2018 2017 to 2018 2017 to 2018 Revenue Revenue Cost* Remissions† 38,026,0324 40,125,108 185,181,1685 n/a * See footnote 1. † See footnote 2. 1 The amount includes direct and indirect costs, where such costs are identifiable and material. 2 A remission is a partial or full return of a fee paid. Under the Service Fees Act departments are required to develop policies that determine when fees will be remitted to fee payers should service standards not be met. The requirement for departments to remit is anticipated to come into effect on March 31, 2020. This effective date allows departments time to develop remissions policies and adjust service standard tracking and remittance systems. During fiscal year 2017 to 2018, some departments may have issued remissions, in accordance with their authority of their enabling legislation or regulation, as opposed to the authority given by the Service Fees Act. It is remissions issued under enabling legislations or regulations that are shown above. 3 The reported amount for fees collected differs slightly when compared with the Department’s annual report on the Access to Information Act 2017-18 due to the timing of the two separate reports and year-end adjustments. 4 In the supplementary information tables that accompanied the 2016-17 Departmental Results Report, this amount was broken down into Commercial Licensing Fee revenue and Recreational Licensing Fee revenue ($32,013,001 and $6,013,031, respectively). 5 This figure is taken from the best proxy measure currently available: 2017-18 actual spending for the Integrated Fisheries Management program. Please note that this figure understates the total cost as it does not include costs such as the contribution of DFO’s science programs or Compliance and Enforcement program. Page 4 Fisheries and Oceans Canada 2017 to 2018 Fees Report Fisheries Management – Pacific Salmon Conservation Stamp General Information Fee Category Fisheries Management – Pacific Salmon Conservation Stamp Fee-setting Authority Fisheries Actviii, sections 7 and 8 Year Introduced 1985 Year Last Amended 2016 Service Standard Online stamp issuance standard is 1-3 business days. Independent Access Providers (vendors) are responsible for provision of paper stamps to clients. Performance Results 100% of online stamp issuance met the service standard of 1-3 business days. Other Information n/a Financial Information (dollars) 2016 to 2017 2017 to 2018 2017 to 2018 2017 to 2018 Revenue Revenue Cost* Remissions† 1,099,383 1,660,509 1,506,9706 n/a * See footnote 1 on page 4. † See footnote 2 on page 4. Hydrography General Information Fee Category Hydrography Fee-setting Authority Financial Administration Actix, Oceans Actx Year Introduced 1996 (Oceans Act) Year Last Amended 2015 (Oceans Act) Service Standard Orders are shipped to authorized Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) chart dealers within five business days of receipt of the order 95% of the time. Performance Results Orders are shipped 99.34 % of the time. Other Information n/a Financial Information (dollars) 2016 to 2017 2017 to 2018 2017 to 2018 2017 to 2018 Revenue Revenue Cost* Remissions† 908,362 801,000 10,657,7097 n/a 6 The Department makes an annual contribution to the Pacific Salmon Foundation. As the contribution is based on revenues collected by the Minister in the previous calendar year, the contribution in a given fiscal year will not correspond to the revenues collected in the same fiscal year. However, the contribution by fiscal year will not be less than revenues collected in the previous calendar year. 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