G/TBT/N/CAN/437
16 January 2015 
(15-0306)  Page: 1/2
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 Transport 
Name and address (including telephon e 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 SPS & TBT Notification Authority and Enquiry Point 
Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada 
Technical Barriers and Regulations Division (TIB) 111 Sussex Drive Ottawa, ON K1A 0G2 
Canada 
Telephone: (343)203-4273 Fax: (613)943-0346 
E-mail: enquirypoint@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 applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Lithium metal batteries 
on passenger aircraft 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Regulations 
Amending the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations (Lithium Metal Batteries, 
ERAPs & Updates to Schedules) (437 pages, available in English and French) 
6. Description of content: The transport of lithium metal batteries as cargo on aircraft has 
been identified by the international community as an increasing risk in light of a number of 
incidents and “near incidents” that have occurred. The main safety concern is that once lithium metal batteries start to burn, fire suppression systems on board aircraft cannot 
extinguish them. As a result, in June 2014 the International Civil Aviation Organization 
(ICAO) decided that, effective January 1, 2015 member states will have the obligation to apply a ban prohibiting the transport of such  batteries as cargo on passenger flights. 
Therefore, this amendment will implement ICAO ’s prohibition of lithium metal batteries on 
passenger aircraft. 
A further issue addressed with this proposal is the need to include in the  Transportation of 
Dangerous Goods Regulations  (TDGR) Protective Direction (PD) 33, issued on April 23, 
2014, which established Emergency Response Assistance Plan (ERAP) requirements for 
nine flammable liquids. This is being done to increase the transparency of the ERAP 
requirements under the TDGR and to avoid stakeholders having to consult two separate 
regulatory instruments to ensure proper co mpliance. As well, given that significant 
amounts of ethanol are exported from the United States into Canada, UN1987 (another number used to identify ethanol), which was not previously identified in PD 33 but is used 
frequently in the United States as a shipping name to classify ethanol, will now be subject G/TBT/N/CAN/437 
 
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  to the ERAP requirements. To ensure proper coverage of petroleum products, UN3494 
(SOUR CRUDE OIL) will now also be subject to  these requirements given that it is a new 
classification for crude oil introduced with the updates related to the 18th edition of the UN 
Recommendations. 
The addition of Emergency Response Assistan ce Plan (ERAP) requirements for the nine 
flammable liquids identified in Protective Direction 33 (PD 33) (i.e., ethanol, diesel, 
gasoline, crude oil, petroleum distillates, avia tion fuel, ethanol gasoline mixtures, and two 
other generic shipping names for flammable and hydrocarbon liquids) including UN1987, alcohols, N.O.S. and UN3494, petroleum sour crude oil, flammable, toxic to Part 7, ERAP of 
the TDGR; 
Updates to align the schedules of the TDGR with the 18
th edition of the UN 
Recommendations (UN 18) on the transport of dangerous goods. Including: 
• New UN Numbers such as UN3494, petroleum sour crude oil, flammable, toxic and 
generic shipping names such as "organo metallic" compounds and "adsorbed gases"; 
• Clarification of the difference between lithium "metal" and lithium "ion" batteries;  
• Relaxation for the transport of small qu antities of dangerous goods under the 
Excepted Quantity Exemption; 
• New classification criteria to facilitate the classification of aerosols; 
Introduction of a special provision, already contained in UN Recommendations, pertaining 
to UN1203, gasoline, which will define the percentages of ethanol required to differentiate 
between the use of UN1203, gasoline and UN3475, ethanol and gasoline mixture (i.e., more than 10% ethanol content) for the classification of ethanol-gasoline mixtures. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
Protection of human safety 
8. Relevant documents:  Canada Gazette , Part II, 31 December 2014, pages 3517-3953 
(available in English and French) 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   Subject to subsections (2) to (4), a person may, for a period 
of six months that begins on the day on which these Regulations are published in the Canada 
Gazette , Part II.  
Proposed date of entry into force: (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), these 
Regulations come into force on the day on which they are published in the Canada Gazette , 
Part II. 
(2) Paragraphs 7.1(6)(g) and (k) of the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations, as 
enacted by section 33, come into force 150 days after the day on which these Regulations 
are published in the Canada Gazette , Part II. 
(3) Special provision 149 of the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations, as enacted 
by section 70, comes into force on January 1, 2015. 
10. Final date for comments: Published in Canada Gazette  Part II on 31 December 2014 with 
exemption from Pre-publication in Canada Gazette  Part I. 
11. Texts available from: Nati onal enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresse s, if available, of other body:  The electronic 
version of the regulatory text can be downloaded at:  
http://www.gazette.gc.c a/rp-pr/p2/2014/2014-12 -31/pdf/g2-14827.pdf 
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/ rp-pr/p2/2014/2014-12-31/ html/sor-dor s306-eng.php   
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/ rp-pr/p2/2014/2014-12-31/ html/sor-dors306-fra.php