G/TBT/N/CAN/640  
28 April 2021  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English /French  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  CANADA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  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:   
Canada's Notification Auth ority and Enquiry Point  
Global Affairs Canada  
Technical Barriers and Regulations Division  
111 Sussex Drive  
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0G2  
Canada  
Telephone: (343) 203 -4273 
Fax: (613) 943 -0346 
E-mail: enquiry point@international.gc.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):  Consumer 
paints or other similar surface coating materials; specific consumer products (pencils, 
artist brushes, furniture and products for children) that have applied to them a paint or 
other similar surface coating material or a sticker, fil m or other similar material; Surface 
treatment and coating (ICS 25.220), Products of the chemical industry (ICS 71.100), 
Paints and varnishes (ICS 87.040), Paint ingredients (ICS 87.060), Furniture (ICS 
97.140), Miscellaneous domestic and commercial equipm ent (ICS 97.180), Equipment for 
children (ICS 97.190), Toys (ICS 97.200.50)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Regulations 
Amending Certain Regulations Made Under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act 
(Surface Coating Mat erials) (26 pages, available in English and French)  
6. Description of content:  Requirements to limit lead, mercury or certain other harmful 
elements (i.e., antimony, arsenic, cadmium, selenium or barium) in surface coating 
materials or in applied surface coating materials on various consumer products are 
currently set out in the Surface Coating Materials Regulations , the Toys Regulations , the 
Carriages and Strollers Regulations , the Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets Regulations , the 
Expansion Gates and Expandab le Enclosures Regulations  and the Playpens Regulations  
under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act  (CCPSA). The proposed Regulations 
would a) expand the meaning of a surface coating material; b) introduce a 90 mg/kg total 
lead limit in surface coating mat erials applied to furniture; c) remove the restrictions on 
lead, mercury and certain other harmful elements in surface coating materials applied to 
parts of products that are inaccessible; d) remove an outdated test method for the 
migration of certain harm ful elements in applied surface coating materials; e) require G/TBT/N/CAN/640  
 
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  testing to be done in accordance with a method that conforms to good laboratory 
practices; and f) ensure consistency between regulations. The proposed Regulations also 
include a few housekeeping  amendments.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  The objective of this regulatory proposal is to amend existing regulatory 
requirements for surface coating materials and applied surface coating materials u nder 
the CCSPA so that they are clear, consistent, relevant to all types of coating materials 
(including stickers, films and similar materials) and better aligned with the United States, 
so that they do not impose an undue compliance burden on industry. Th e amendments 
will also give Health Canada the necessary tools to act quickly to remove non -compliant 
products from the market and help protect Canadians.; Other  
8. Relevant documents:   
Canada Gazette , Part I, 24 April 2021, pages 1730 -1756 (available in English and French)  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  On the date of publication in the Canada Gazette, Part II.  
Proposed date of entry into force:  These Regulations would come into force on the 
180th day after the day on which they are published in the Canada Gazette, Part II.  
10. Final date for comments:  3 July 2021  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
The electronic version of the regulatory text can be downloaded at:  
https://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp -pr/p1/2021/2021 -04-24/html/reg1 -eng.html   
https://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp -pr/p1/2021/2021 -04-24/html/reg1 -fra.html