. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CAN/199/Rev.2 
20 October 2009  
 (09-5160) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English/ 
 French 
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
Revision  
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  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, 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 [ 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):  Child restraint systems 
and booster seats (ICS:  97.190, 43.040) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposed Motor 
Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations (59 pages, available in English and French)     
6. Description of content:  Over the past two decades, the average size of children has 
increased, but the safety standards for child seat s used in motor vehicles have not kept pace. 
Recognizing this evolution, the United States has recently adap ted its requirements for child 
seats to account for heavier children in order to improve safety. The proposed Motor Vehicle 
Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations (RSSR) w ould update and more 
closely align the Canadian requirements and tes ting procedures for child seats contained in 
the current Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems an d Booster Cushions Safety Regulations with 
those recently adopted by the United States. This would allow for a wider variety of child 
seats to become available in Canada, as manufac turers would be able to design seats to one 
set of performance test require ments. This would also minimi ze the burden to manufacturers 
caused by different North American regulations.  
This proposed amendment would provide child occupants with improved protection in the 
event of a collision by aligning the Canadian requirements with the United States 
requirements that involve the te sting of child seats with more advanced test dummies and 
additional testing performance criteria. The sec tions relating to larger child seats in this 
proposed amendment have been in effect in Ca nada since May 2007 by means of successive  G/TBT/N/CAN/199/Rev.2 
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  interim orders (notified under G/TBT/N/CAN/ 199, 199/Rev.1, and 199/Rev.1/Add.1), which 
this amendment would make permanent.  
In addition, this proposed amendment introduces  new lap/shoulder belt  testing requirements 
to better reflect the use of child  restraints in today’s vehicles. 
Finally, this amendment would reorganize the regula tory text to clarify the intent of some of 
the existing requirements. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human safety  
8. Relevant documents:   Canada Gazette, Part I, 10 October 2009, Pages 3103-3161 (Available 
in English and French)   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    Not stated 
1 September 2010. Transitional provision:  Until 1 September 2010, the restraint systems and booster seats referred to in these Regulations may conform to the requirements 
of the Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and 
Booster Cushions Safety Regulations as they read on the day before the day on which these Regulations come into force.  
10. Final date for comments:  24 November 2009 
11. Text available from: National enquiry po int [ 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 regulatory text can be downloaded at:   http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-p r/p1/2009/2009-10-10/pdf/g1-14341.pdf  
 (Canada Gazette) 
or   
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2009/2009-10-10/html/reg5-eng.html  (English)  
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/ 2009/2009-10-10/html/reg5-fra.html  (French)