. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/CAN/343 
1 September 2011  
 (11-4281) 
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, 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):  Hazardous chemicals and 
pesticides (ICS : 13.020, 65.100) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposed Export of 
Substances on the Export Control List Regula tions (19 pages, available in English and 
French) 
6. Description of content:  The proposed Export of Substances on the Export Control List 
Regulations  (the proposed Regulations) would serve as Canada's system of export controls for 
substances that are listed to the Export  Control List (ECL) in Schedule 3 of the Canadian 
Environmental Protection Act, 1999  (CEPA 1999).  The ECL is a list of substances to which 
export controls apply in Canada.  The proposed Regulations, which pertain to the ECL, relate 
to Canada's international obligations u nder the Stockholm Convention and Rotterdam 
Convention that control the global trade in ch emical substances.  The proposed Regulations 
also set out the content and form  of the notice of proposed e xport required for the export of 
substances listed to the ECL under CEPA 1999.   
There are currently two sets of regulations (the Export Control List Notification Regulations  
[ECLN Regulations] and the Export of Substances Under the Rotterdam Convention 
Regulations  [ESURC Regulations] with which Canadi an exporters of substances on the ECL 
must comply.  The proposed Regulations w ould merge the ECLN Regulations and the 
ESURC Regulations and new provisions would be  added to assist Canada in meeting its 
obligations for export under the Stockholm Conv ention.  The requirements of the ECLN and 
ESURC Regulations would genera lly be maintained.  Some changes would be introduced to G/TBT/N/CAN/343 
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  avoid duplication and to clarify the labellin g and export requirement s of the Rotterdam 
Convention. 
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, 6 August, 2011, Pages 2616-2634 (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. 
On the day on which the measure is adopted 
10. Final date for comments:  20 October  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-pr/p1/ 2011/2011-08-06/pdf/g1-14532.pdf#page=80  
(Canada Gazette)  or   
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2011/2011-08-06/html/reg2-eng.html  (English)  
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2011/2011-08-06/html/reg2-fra.html  (French)