. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/CAN/368 
23 July 2012  
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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 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):  Pest Control Products 
(ICS: 65.100) 
5. Title, number of pages and langu age(s) of the notified document:  Proposed Amendments 
to the Pest Control Products Regulations (19 page s, available in English and French).     
6. Description of content:  The Pest Control Products Act  (PCPA) and the Pest Control 
Product Regulations  (PCPR) provide the legi slative mandate to regulat e pest control products 
in Canada. Under the PCPA, the Minister has the authority to allow the use of unregistered pest control products (i.e. a pest control product that  is not registered in Canada), if the use of 
such products does not pose any unacceptable he alth or environmenta l risks. Using this 
authority, provisions in the Pest Control Products Regulations  currently allow the importation 
of a foreign product, exempt from Canadian regi stration requirements, pr ovided it is deemed 
to be equivalent to a Canadian regist ered product and has an equivalent label.  
The proposed amendments are intended to form alize the existing approach to establishing 
equivalence between registered  and foreign products as well as to simplify certain 
administrative aspects of the program. 
The proposed amendments, consiste nt with the existing program, would clarify the process by 
which chemical equivalence is determined between a registered Canadian product and a 
foreign (unregistered) product. The establishment of chemical equivalence is crucial since it 
helps ensure that the importation of a produc t under regulation does not present unacceptable 
health or environmental risks. Also consistent with the existing program, the amendments 
empower grower groups with the responsibility  to nominate products for importation and to 
define the conditions that growers must meet in order to import products into Canada.  G/TBT/N/CAN/368 
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  Note: This document has also been  notified under the SPS Agreement (G/ SPS/N/CAN/622) 
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, 7 July 2012, Pages 1967-1985 (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.  
These Regulations come into force six months after the day on which they are published in the Canada Gazette , Part II. 
10. Final date for comments:  20 September 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 legisl ative text can be downloaded at: 
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2012 /2012-07-07/pdf/g1-14627.pdf#page=103  ( Canada 
Gazette) 
or 
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2012/2012-07-07/html/reg9-eng.html  (English) 
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2012/2012-07-07/html/reg9-fra.html  (French)