Public Notice 1997-1

Application for Certification:
Canadian Artists Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens
Tribunal File No. 96-0027-A

In accordance with subsection 25(3) of the Status of the Artist Act, the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal hereby gives notice that it has received an application for certification from the Canadian Artists Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC) to represent a sector composed of all independent professional visual and media artists in Canada who are authors of original artistic works of research or expression commissioned by a producer subject to the Status of the Artist Act and expressed in the form of painting, sculpture, printmaking, engraving, drawing, installation, performance art, craft-based media, textile art, fine art film and video, fine art photography or any other form of expression of the same type, excluding:

1. artists covered by the certification granted to the Conseil des métiers d'art du Québec by the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal on June 4, 1997;
   
   
2. artists covered by the certification granted to the Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec by the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal on April 15, 1997;
   
   
3. artists covered by the certification granted to the Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communications by the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal on April 26, 1996.

Any artists' association that wishes to make a competing application for certification in respect of the same sector or any part of the same sector must file its application for certification no later than October 10, 1997. Any individual or organization that wishes to make representations to the Tribunal regarding the application must notify the Tribunal in writing of their interest no later than October 10, 1997.

Competing applications for certification and expressions of interest must be sent either by facsimile or by mail to the:
Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal
8th Floor West, 240 Sparks Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1A1
Facsimile No. 613-947-4125.

Elizabeth MacPherson
Secretary General