. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/CAN/339 
20 July 2011  
 (11-3638) 
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 Transport 
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:  mailto:enquirypoint@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 vehicle head 
restraints (ICS:  43.040) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Technical Standards 
Document No. 202, Head Restraints – Revision 1 (2 pages in English and French)     
6. Description of content:  Notice is hereby given, pur suant to section 12 of the Motor Vehicle 
Safety Act  and sections 16 and 17 of the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations , that the 
Department of Transport has revised Tec hnical Standards Document (TSD) No. 202, Head 
Restraints , which specifies requirements for head restraints to reduce the frequency and 
severity of neck injury in rear-end and other collisions.  
TSD No. 202, Head Restraints , reproduces U.S. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 
202, Head Restraints, and is incorporat ed by reference in section 202 of the Motor Vehicle 
Safety Regulations .  This revision replicates the regulatory text of the Final Rule issued by the 
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the United States Department of 
Transportation that was published in the Federal Register  of November 2, 2010 (Vol. 75, No. 
211, p. 67233).  This revision is introduced to re spond to petitions for reconsideration of the 
agency’s May 2007 final rule amending the head  restraint standard, a nd to related petitions 
for rulemaking. This document also  makes technical corrections.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  To 
reduce the frequency and severity of neck  injury in rear-end and other collisions.  
8. Relevant documents:   Canada Gazette, Part I, 9 Ju ly 2011, Pages 2229-2230 (Available in 
English and French)   G/TBT/N/CAN/339 
Page 2  
 
  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    9 July 2011   
1 September 2012 - Vehicles manufactured 
during the interim period may conform to the requirements of either Re vision 0 or Revision 1. 
10. Final date for comments:  Not stated 
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 regulator y text can be downloaded at:   
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/ 2011/2011-07-09/pdf/g1-14528.pdf#page=43 ( Canada 
Gazette ) 
or  
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2011 /2011-07-09/html/notice-avis-eng.html#d104 
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2011/ 2011-07-09/html/notice- avis-fra.html#d104 
The electronic version of Revision 1 of Technical Standards Document No. 202 can be 
downloaded at:  
http://www.tc.gc.ca/media/documents/roadsafety/2020rev1_e.pdf  (English) 
http://www.tc.gc.ca/media/documents /securiteroutie re/2020rev1_f.pdf  (French)