Type: Decision
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Decision: B.C. Marketing Board re: BCCMB Pricing and Production in the British Columbia Chicken Industry
Supervisory order directing the B.C. Chicken Marketing Board to amend its pricing and production order (Order #1/97) to create a new two-part consultation process: a statutory Pricing and Production Advisory Committee (PPAC) for general policy advice, and a separate joint committee (Board Committee and Processor Committee) for negotiating and arbitrating specific periodic pricing and production…
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Preliminary Decision: BC Vegetable Greenhouse I, L.P. v. British Columbia Vegetable Marketing Commission
Appeal of VMC’s Order 10/03(a) requiring BC Vegetable to remit $376,642 in levies. This preliminary decision addresses disclosure disputes, requests for forensic examination of Commission computers, scope of the appeal, and scheduling. The Board ordered limited further disclosure, dismissed other requests, and confined the appeal to levy calculation issues.
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Decision: B.C. Chicken Growers’ Association v. B.C. Chicken Marketing Board
The BCFIRB dismisses the appeal by BCCGA against BCCMB’s July 8, 2005 order, which converted transitional quotas to primary quotas to address inequities in quota allocation.
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Costs decision: BC Vegetable Greenhouse I, L.P. v. British Columbia Vegetable Marketing Commission
Costs decision arising from appeal of BCVMC Order 10/03(a) regarding levy calculations for greenhouse vegetable producers. The matter involves costs applications by the BCVMC and BC Hot House Foods Inc. following extensive interlocutory steps and disputes over the scope of appeal and document disclosure.
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Preliminary Decision: BC Vegetable Greenhouse I, L.P. v. British Columbia Vegetable Marketing Commission
Appeal of BCVMC’s Order 10/03(a) requiring BC Vegetable Greenhouse I, L.P. to remit $376,642 in outstanding levies. The BCVMC and BC Hot House sought summary dismissal of the appeal. The Board dismissed most grounds as frivolous or an abuse of process, but allowed the appeal to proceed on jurisdiction and computation issues.
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Decision: British Columbia Fruit Growers’ Association v. British Columbia Tree Fruit Marketing Board
Appeal of BCTFMB’s decision to deny a grant for a marketing initiative.
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Decision: Supervisory review of the B.C. greenhouse vegetable industry
The B.C. Marketing Board issues a decision addressing various issues in the regulated vegetable sector, including marketing exemptions, levy impositions, and marketing conditions.
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Preliminary decision: B.C. Egg Hatchery Association v. B.C. Chicken Marketing Board
The B.C. Marketing Board issues a decision on BCEHA’s appeal for a stay of BCCMB’s decision regarding over-hatch placements, pending appeal. The stay is granted to maintain the status quo until the appeal is heard.
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Decision: Baran and Baran v. Roberts
Complaint related to dust and pest infestations, including flies and rodents, from a poultry farm in Aldergrove.
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Preliminary decision: Baird v. Plasterer
Complaint related to noise, land clearing, burning, and rodents from a cattle operation. Jurisdictional issue raised regarding whether the practices result from a farm business under the FPPA. Complaint was referred to a hearing.