OTTAWA – The CRTC’s National Do Not Call List levied $3,050,595 in fees in the 2013-14 fiscal year.
In a public notice this week, the Commission said that this amount represented the actual fees payable by those persons who subscribed to the National Do Not Call List (DNCL) and paid the CRTC’s component of the fees. The Regulator also estimated its telemarketing regulatory costs for fiscal year 2014-15 at $3.3 million.
The Unsolicited Telecommunications Fees Regulations came into force on April 1, 2013 and prescribe fees that will be assessed in order to recover the CRTC’s costs associated with the investigation and enforcement of the DNCL.
Telemarketing regulatory costs are defined as follows:
The telemarketing regulatory costs of the Commission for a given fiscal year are the portion of the costs of the Commission’s activities for that year, as set out in the Commission’s Expenditure Plan published in Part III of the Estimates of the Government of Canada and, if applicable, the Supplementary Estimates of the Government of Canada, that are attributable to the Commission’s responsibilities under section 41.2 of the Telecommunications Act and that are not recovered under any regulation made under section 68 of that Act.
