CSA Staff Notice 13-318
Changes to www.SEDAR.com
March 28, 2013
Introduction and Purpose
Staff of the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA, Staff or we) are publishing this Staff
Notice (the Notice) to highlight changes to the SEDAR website (the Website or SEDAR.com) to
be implemented on April 6, 2013. As a result of the changes, public filings and updates to the
reporting issuer profiles made on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval
(SEDAR) will now be accessible on the website within 15 minutes of the original submission
instead of the following day.
Background
SEDAR is the electronic system used for the transmission, receipt, review, acceptance and
dissemination of most securities-related information filed with Canadian securities regulatory
authorities. Filing on SEDAR is mandatory for most reporting issuers – both public companies
and investment funds in Canada. SEDAR enables industry to file securities offering and
continuous disclosure documents and remit filing fees electronically between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m.
Eastern Time and SEDAR.com provides free access to these public filings.
The Website was originally built to support access to public documents on a daily basis, so that
documents made public on SEDAR would appear on the website the following day.
Changes to Timing of Document Accessibility on SEDAR.com
As part of its ongoing efforts to enhance investor awareness and in response to feedback from
market participants, the CSA has recently implemented enhancements to the architecture of the
SEDAR.com website, which have made it possible to support more timely replication of public
filings from SEDAR to SEDAR.com.
As of April 6, 2013, replication of publicly available filings to SEDAR.com will occur every 15
minutes during SEDAR business hours. As a result, documents made public on SEDAR will
now be accessible on the Website within 15 minutes of the original submission. New reporting
issuer profiles that are made public, as well as updates to existing profiles, will also appear on
SEDAR.com within 15 minutes.
We remind filers that they should ensure that documents filed on SEDAR are complete and
accurate and comply with applicable privacy and securities laws before they are filed.
Additional Changes to SEDAR.com
In order to support the above noted enhancements to the website, we will also implement the
following changes on SEDAR.com:
•
Announcement - Include an announcement informing SEDAR.com users of the changes to
the replication process on the following pages: Home, New Filings, Search Database,
Company Profiles, Web Links, About SEDAR, Site Help, Site Map and Search Help. We
will also add additional information regarding the changes to SEDAR.com to the Home page.
•
New Filings Page – Include a time stamp with text advising users of when a filing was last
updated on the New Filings page.
•
Public Company and Investment Funds Filings Pages - Add a new column to indicate the
time of filing to the list appearing on these pages.
•
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) – Update the answers to the frequently asked questions
to reflect the changes to the replication process.
•
Terms of Use – Update the Terms of Use for SEDAR.com to reflect the changes to the
replication process.
Questions
Please refer your questions to any of the following people:
Jonathan Taylor
Ann Mankikar
Manager, CD Compliance & Market
Supervisor - Financial Examiners, Corporate Finance
Analysis
Ontario Securities Commission
Alberta Securities Commission
416-593-8281
403-297-4770
amankikar@osc.gov.on.ca
jonathan.taylor@asc.ca
April Penn
Louise Allard
Assistant Manager, Financial Reporting,
Analyst, Continuous Disclosure
Corporate Finance
Autorité des marchés financiers
British Columbia Securities Commission
514-395-0337, ext. 4442
604-899-6805 or 1-800-373-6393
louise.allard@lautorite.qc.ca
APenn@bcsc.bc.ca
Wayne Bridgeman
Senior Analyst – Corporate Finance
The Manitoba Securities Commission
204-945-4905
wayne.bridgeman@gov.mb.ca
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