. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CAN/185 
13 December 2006 
 (06-5973) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English/ 
 French 
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   CANADA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Department of Transport 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
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 Street Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1P 6N7  Tel.: (+1) 613 238 3222,  
Fax.: (+1) 613 569 7808,  
E-mail:  info@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 (ICS: 43.040, 43.080, 43.140) 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:   Proposed Amendment 
to the  Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations (Door Lo cks and Door Retention Components) (11 
pages, available in English and French) 
6. Description of content:   Section 206 of the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations  (MVSR), 
"Door Locks and Door Retention Component s," specifies the requirements governing door 
latches, locks and hinges of passenger ca rs, multipurpose passenger vehicles (MPV), 
enclosed motorcycles, three-wheeled vehicl es, trucks and buses. Currently, section 206 
mirrors the content of the U.S. National Highw ay Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) 
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMV SS) 206 by means of a technical standards 
document (TSD).   The amendment to section 206 proposed by the De partment of Transport (the Department) 
has two purposes. The first is to incorporate by  reference the requirements of the new global 
technical regulation (gtr) on door locks and door retention components—
ECE/TRANS/180/Add.1 (gtr 1)—as an alternativ e set of requirements to those of TSD 206. 
The second is to amend TSD 206 to align it with  future regulations of NHTSA's Notice of 
Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) of December 15, 2004, which will come into effect when 
the Final Rule for FMVSS 206 is published.  
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  This proposed amendment to section 206 would reduce the risk of a potential inadvertent 
door opening and subsequent o ccupant ejection by improving the requirements for sliding, 
cargo and rear-hinged side doors.  In addition,  the proposal would extend the application of 
section 206 to buses with a gross vehicle wei ght rating (GVWR) of 4 536 kg or less, 
including 12 and 15 passenger vans.  Finally, gtr 1 would offer an alternative dynamic 
inertial test procedure to the current inertial calculation, which would be more 
representative of real-world conditions.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human safety 
8. Relevant documents:   Canada Gazette, Part I, 2 December 2006, Pages 4040-4050 
(Available in English and French). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
 
  Proposed date of entry into force:    This amendment would come into effect on the 
date of its publication in the Canada Gazette , 
Part II. The effective date of the TSD would be the same.  Until 31 August 2008, vehicles could conform 
to the requirements of gtr 1, or to the 
requirements of the current or revised version of TSD 206.  Effective 1 September 2008, manufacturers would be provided the option of complying with the provisions of the revised 
version of TSD 206 or the provisions of gtr 1.  
 
10. Final date for comments:   15 February 2007 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
The electronic version of the regulatory text can be downloaded at:  
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/partI/2006/20061202/pdf/g1-14048.pdf   
The TSD documents are available in English and French on Transpor t Canada’s Web site: 
http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/ mvstm_tsd/index_e.htm