. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/CAN/374 
22 October 2012  
 (12-5754) 
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 Transport 
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 [X], 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):  Motor Vehicles 
(Electronic Stability Control (ESC) systems) (ICS: 43.040) 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:  Proposed Amendment 
to the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations (Stand ard 126) (3 pages, available in English and 
French)     
6. Description of content:  The safety standard mandating the installation of electronic stability 
control (ESC) systems on light-duty vehicles, he reafter referred to as the Canadian safety 
standard, was inadvertently repealed from the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations , pursuant to 
an amendment published on November 9, 2011. Th at amendment was intended solely to re-
enact a separate series of safety  standards within the Regulations.  
This proposed amendment would re-i ntroduce into Sche dule IV of the Motor Vehicle Safety 
Regulations  the same safety standard that first established mandatory installation of ESC 
systems on light-duty vehicles, as published in the Canada Gazette , Part II, on 
23 December 2009. As before, the proposed Canadian safety standa rd would apply to light-duty vehicles which 
include passenger cars, multi-purpose passenger vehicles, trucks and buses with a gross 
vehicle weight rating of 4 536 kilograms or less. This propos al would once again harmonize 
the Canadian safety standard wi th the requirements of the U.S. safety standard pertaining to 
ESC systems, removing a potenti al impediment to trade between the two countries, and 
would also align the Canadian safety standard  with the requirements of the United Nations' 
Global Technical Regulation on ESC systems. Re -introducing this Canadian safety standard 
as it existed previously should therefore not affect the vehicle designs or manufacturing 
processes that currently include ES C systems as standard equipment. G/TBT/N/CAN/374 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human safety.  
8. Relevant documents:   Canada Gazette , Part I, 6 October 2012, Pages 2851-2853 (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. 
The amendment that first introduced the Canadian safety standard into the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulatio ns required mandatory 
compliance on and after September 1, 2011, 
with the exception of vehi cles that were altered 
or those that were manufactured in two or more stages (which required compliance on and after 
September 1, 2012). While this proposed amendment does not modify the requirements 
as originally introduced, mandatory compliance 
would not be required until 60 days after the date of publication of the amendment in the Canada Gazette , Part II. 
10. Final date for comments:  5 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/ 2012/2012-10-06/pdf/g1-14640.pdf#page=51 ( Canada 
Gazette) 
or  
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2012/2012-10-06/html/reg2-eng.html   (English)  
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2012/2012-10-06/html/reg2-fra.html   (French) 
The TSD documents are available in English and French on Transport Canada's Web site: 
http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/a cts-regulations/regulat ions-crc-c1038.html