. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/CAN/370 
15 October 2012  
 (12-5579) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English/ 
 French 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  CANADA  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Department of the Environmen t and Department of Health 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :   
Canadian Enquiry Point, 200-270 Albert St reet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1P 6N7 
Tel.: +1 613 238 3222, Fax: +1 613 569 7808, E-mail:  enquirypoint@scc.ca   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Toxic substances 
(ICS: 13.020) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposed Order Adding 
Toxic Substances to Schedule 1 to the Ca nadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 
(9 pages, available in English and French).    
6. Description of content:  Canadians depend on chemical substa nces that are used in hundreds 
of goods, such as medicines, computers, fabr ics and fuels. Unfortunately, some chemical 
substances can negatively affect human health or the environment when released above a 
certain quantity or concentrati on in the environment. Scientific  screening assessments of the 
following substances have concluded that thes e substances are entering or may enter the 
environment in a quantity or concentration or  under conditions that have or may have an 
immediate or long-term harmful effect on the environment or its biological diversity, as 
defined under paragraph 64(a) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999  
(CEPA 1999, also referred to  hereafter as the "Act"):  
- Perfluorooctanoic acid, which has the molecular formula C7F15CO2H (PFOA), and 
its salts; 
- Compounds that consist of a perfluorin ated alkyl group that has the molecular 
formula C nF2n+1 in which n = 7 or 8 and that is directly bonded to any chemical 
moiety other than a fluorine, chlorine or bromine atom (precursors of PFOA); 
- Perfluorocarboxylic acids that have the molecular formula C nF2n+1CO 2H in which 
8 ≤ n ≤ 20 (long-chain PFCA) and their salts; and  G/TBT/N/CAN/370 
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  - Compounds that consist of a perfluorin ated alkyl group that has the molecular 
formula C
nF2n+1 in which 8 ≤ n ≤ 20 and that is directly bonded to any chemical 
moiety other than a fluorine, chlorine  or bromine atom (long-chain PFCA 
precursors). 
The objective of the proposed Order Adding Toxic Substances to Schedule 1 to the Canadian 
Environmental Protection Act, 1999  (hereinafter referred to as  the "proposed Order"), made 
under subsection 90(1) of CEPA 1999, is to a dd PFOA, its salts and precursors and long-
chain PFCAs, their salts and pr ecursors to the List of Toxi c Substances in Schedule 1 of 
CEPA 1999. 
This addition enables the Minister of the En vironment and the Minister of Health (the 
"Ministers") to propose regula tions or other risk manageme nt instruments to manage 
environmental risks posed by these substan ces under CEPA 1999. The Ministers may, 
however, choose to develop instruments outside  of the purview of CEPA 1999 in order to 
manage these risks. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health and the environment  
8. Relevant documents:   Canada Gazette , Part I, 29 September 2012, Pages 2740-2748 
(available in English and French)   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    Normally within 5 to 8 months of publication in 
the Canada Gazette, Part I. On the date the measure is adopted 
10. Final date for comments:  28 November 2012 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
The electronic version of the regulator y text can be downloaded at:    
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2012 /2012-09-29/pdf/g1-14639.pdf#page=26  ( Canada 
Gazette ) 
or  http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2012/2012-09-29/html/reg1-eng.html   (English)  
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2012/2012-09-29/html/reg1-fra.html   (French)