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[[Image:Deadline.png |60px|left|Deadline]] <big>   Funding applications for projects starting in fiscal year 2023-2024, are now being accepted.</big> <big>Find out more below!</big>  

[[Image:Deadline.png |60px|left|Deadline]] <big>Funding applications for projects starting in fiscal year 2023-2024, are now being accepted. Find out more below!</big>  

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<span style="color: #1F402B"><big>'''What is the Regulatory Experimentation Expense Fund (REEF)?'''</big></span><br>The REEF is a fund to help regulators support innovation by experimenting with:

<span style="color: #1F402B"><big>'''What is the Regulatory Experimentation Expense Fund (REEF)?'''</big></span><br>The REEF is a fund to help regulators support innovation by experimenting with:

* innovative approaches to any or all stages of the regulatory lifecycle (issue definition and instrument choice, regulatory development, administration, compliance/enforcement, and review/evaluation)

*innovative approaches to any or all stages of the regulatory lifecycle (issue definition and instrument choice, regulatory development, administration, compliance/enforcement, and review/evaluation)

* regulatory approaches for new products or services.

*regulatory approaches for new products or services.

The REEF provides regulators with:

The REEF provides regulators with:

* financial support to offset expenses associated with experimenting, and  

*financial support to offset expenses associated with experimenting, and

* technical advice and guidance to help you navigate your specific situation.

*technical advice and guidance to help you navigate your specific situation.

* conduct a regulatory experiment

* conduct a regulatory experiment

* determine whether an experiment would be the right approach (NEW)

*determine whether an experiment would be the right approach (NEW)

* develop a regulatory experiment (NEW)

*develop a regulatory experiment (NEW)

<span style="color: #1F402B"><big>'''Who Should Apply?'''</big></span>

<span style="color: #1F402B"><big>'''Who Should Apply?'''</big></span>

* Regulators who want to understand the impacts of a proposed regulatory solution before implementing it permanently

*Regulators who want to understand the impacts of a proposed regulatory solution before implementing it permanently

* Regulators who are considering multiple potential solutions and want to identify the best option through testing and generating evidence

*Regulators who are considering multiple potential solutions and want to identify the best option through testing and generating evidence

The CRI has expanded the scope of the REEF to support regulators with their ‘pre-experimentation’ efforts. This means that regulators can access funding before they are ready to conduct an experiment. Some examples include projects aiming to:

The CRI has expanded the scope of the REEF to support regulators with their ‘pre-experimentation’ efforts. This means that regulators can access funding before they are ready to conduct an experiment. Some examples include projects aiming to:

* determine if experimentation is the right approach for a specific situation or problem

*determine if experimentation is the right approach for a specific situation or problem

* develop an experimentation idea (e.g., develop experiment scope, clarify evidence needs, develop what the experiment would look like and how the evidence would be obtained)  

*develop an experimentation idea (e.g., develop experiment scope, clarify evidence needs, develop what the experiment would look like and how the evidence would be obtained)  

*[[Media:Expression of Interest (EOI) Template.docx| <u>Expression of Interest (EOI) Template</u>]]

*[[Media:Expression of Interest (EOI) Template.docx| <u>Expression of Interest (EOI) Template</u>]]

* [https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.gccollab.ca%2Fimages%2Fa%2Fa6%2FProposal_Template.docx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK <u>Proposal Template</u>]

*[https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.gccollab.ca%2Fimages%2Fa%2Fa6%2FProposal_Template.docx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK <u>Proposal Template</u>]

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|Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

|Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

| Using Experimentation in National Stakeholder Engagement to Advance Supply Chain Transparency (SCT) for Chemicals In Products

|Using Experimentation in National Stakeholder Engagement to Advance Supply Chain Transparency (SCT) for Chemicals In Products

|The experiment as proposed by ECCC involves using a policy lab approach to engage Canadian stakeholders in co-developing new solutions to enhance supply chain transparency (SCT) for chemicals, in addition to developing recommendations for consumer labelling. Using a policy lab model is a novel approach for ECCC and the experiment is to test whether this approach can enhance the policy outcomes in the context of a complex issue affecting a regulatory program and implicating many industries and stakeholders.

|The experiment as proposed by ECCC involves using a policy lab approach to engage Canadian stakeholders in co-developing new solutions to enhance supply chain transparency (SCT) for chemicals, in addition to developing recommendations for consumer labelling. Using a policy lab model is a novel approach for ECCC and the experiment is to test whether this approach can enhance the policy outcomes in the context of a complex issue affecting a regulatory program and implicating many industries and stakeholders.

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|Competition Bureau Canada

|Competition Bureau Canada

|Merger Intelligence

|Merger Intelligence

|The experiment as proposed by CB involves testing whether a created IT tool could help the Competition Bureau to leverage various sources of publicly available information to more efficiently and effectively identify anticompetitive mergers that may be avoiding antitrust scrutiny in Canada because they are not caught by the current regulatory regime for mandatory pre-merger notification.

| The experiment as proposed by CB involves testing whether a created IT tool could help the Competition Bureau to leverage various sources of publicly available information to more efficiently and effectively identify anticompetitive mergers that may be avoiding antitrust scrutiny in Canada because they are not caught by the current regulatory regime for mandatory pre-merger notification.

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|Transport Canada (TC)

|Transport Canada (TC)

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|Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED) – Standards Council of Canada (SCC)

|Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED) – Standards Council of Canada (SCC)

|Piloting an Accreditation Program for the Assessment of Artificial Intelligence Management Systems (AIMS)

| Piloting an Accreditation Program for the Assessment of Artificial Intelligence Management Systems (AIMS)

|The purpose of this experiment is to pilot a prototype accreditation program to understand whether the main SCC Requirements and Guidance document that works in conjunction with ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 Conformity assessment is clear and appropriate and obtain feedback from the certification bodies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies about the program. This information is necessary to improve and refine the prototype.

|The purpose of this experiment is to pilot a prototype accreditation program to understand whether the main SCC Requirements and Guidance document that works in conjunction with ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 Conformity assessment is clear and appropriate and obtain feedback from the certification bodies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies about the program. This information is necessary to improve and refine the prototype.

The SCC is also looking to gather information on whether the AIMS could have an impact on the level of risk of AI products to inform potential use of AIMS for regulators.

The SCC is also looking to gather information on whether the AIMS could have an impact on the level of risk of AI products to inform potential use of AIMS for regulators.

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