WORLD TRADE  
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G/TBT/N/CAN/341 
15 August 2011  
 (11-4052) 
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 the Environmen t and 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 Street, Ottawa, Ontari o, 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):  Hazardous chemicals and 
pesticides (ICS: 13.020, 65.100) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposed Order 
Amending Schedule 3 to the Canadian Envi ronmental Protection Act, 1999 (9 pages, 
available in English and French)  
6. Description of content:  Substances listed to the Export Control List (ECL) are grouped 
according to the following criteria:  
Part 1 includes substances whose use is prohi bited in Canada. Under the authority of the 
Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999  (CEPA 1999), these substances can only be 
exported under very lim ited circumstances (such as for destruction).  
Part 2 includes substances for which notification or consent for export is required pursuant to 
an international agreement. These substances ar e subject to the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) 
procedure of the Rotterdam Convention, whic h is an international convention promoting 
shared responsibility and coope rative efforts amongst Parties in  the international trade of 
certain hazardous chemicals.  
Part 3 includes substances whose use is restri cted in Canada. Examples of these substances 
include ozone-depleting substances which ma y be exported subject to domestic export 
controls.  
The proposed Order Amending Schedule 3 to the Ca nadian Environmental Protection Act, 
1999  (hereinafter referred to as the propos ed Order) proposes several additions and 
modifications to the ECL. The proposed Order updates the ECL with new substances and  
groups of substances recently a dded to Annex III of the Rotter dam Convention and also adds G/TBT/N/CAN/341 
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  new substances to the ECL that have recently  been banned or restricted in Canada under 
domestic controls. Some of these substances  have recently been added to the Stockholm 
Convention. 
The proposed Order would add the following five  substances to Part 1 of the ECL. These 
substances are prohibited in Ca nada and are therefore proposed for inclusion in Part 1 of the 
ECL: 
- Chlordecone (Chemical Abstracts Service [CAS] registry number (see footnote 4) 
143-50-0); 
- Endrin (1,2,3,4,10,10-hexachloro-6,7-epoxy-1,4,4a,5,6,7,8, 8a-octahydro-exo-1,4-
exo-5,8-dimethanonaphthal ene) [CAS 72-20-8]; 
- Toxaphene (CAS 8001-35-2); - Alpha-HCH (CAS 319-84-6); and 
- Beta-HCH (CAS 319-85-7). 
The proposed Order would add the following th ree groups of substan ces, which have been 
added to Annex III to the Rotterdam Convention, to Part 2 of the ECL: 
- Dinitro-ortho-cresol (D NOC) and its salts (CAS 534-52-1; CAS 2980-64-5; CAS 
5787-96-2; CAS 2312-76-7); 
- Dustable powder formulations containing a combination of benomyl at or above 7% 
(CAS 17804-35-2), carbofuran at or above 10% (CAS 1563-66-2) and thiram at or 
above 15% (CAS 137-26-8); and 
- All tributyltin compounds, including 
1. Tributyltin oxide (CAS 56-35-9); 
2. Tributyltin fluoride (CAS 1983-10-4); 
3. Tributyltin methacrylate (CAS 2155-70-6); 
4. Tributyltin benzoate (CAS 4342-36-3); 5. Tributyltin chloride (CAS 1461-22-9); 6. Tributyltin linoleate (CAS 24124-25-2); and 7. Tributyltin naphthenate (CAS 85409-17-2). 
The proposed Order would add nine substances or groups of substances to Part 3 of the ECL. 
These additions are proposed because there are controls placed on these substances in Canada which restrict their use: 
- Benzidine and benzidine dihydrochloride, which have the molecular formulas 
C12H12N2 and C12H12N2×2HCl, resp ectively (CAS 92-87-5; CAS 531-85-1); 
- 2-Methoxyethanol, which has the mol ecular formula C3H8O2 (CAS 109-86-4); 
- Pentachlorobenzene, which has the mol ecular formula C6HCl5 (CAS 608-93-5); 
- Tetrachlorobenzenes, which have the mo lecular formula C6H2Cl4 (CAS 12408-10-5; 
CAS 84713-12-2; CAS 634-90-2; CAS 634-66-2; CAS 95-94-3); 
- Perfluorooctane sulfonat e (PFOS) and its salts; 
- Compounds that contain one of the following groups: C8F17SO2, C8F17SO3 or 
C8F17SO2N; 
- Azinphos-methyl (CAS 86-50-0); - Phorate (CAS 298-02-2); and - Terbufos (CAS 13071-79-9). 
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, 30 Ju ly 2011, Pages 2528-2536 (available in 
English and French)    G/TBT/N/CAN/341 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:      Not stated 
  On the day on which the measure is adopted 
10. Final date for comments:  13 August 2011 
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 regulat ory text can be downloaded at: 
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-p r/p1/2011/2011-07-30/pdf/g1-14531.pdf  (Canada Gazette ) 
or  
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2011/2011-07-30/html/reg1-eng.html  (English)  
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2011/2011-07-30/html/reg1-fra.html  (French)