. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/CAN/342 
18 August 2011  
 (11-4120) 
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):  Toxic substances 
(ICS: 13.020) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposed Order Adding 
Toxic Substances to Schedule 1 to the Ca nadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 
(9 pages, available in English and French)     
6. Description of content:  Canadians depend on chemical substa nces that are used in hundreds 
of goods, from medicines to computers, fabric s, and fuels. Unfortunately, some chemical 
substances can negatively affect our health and the environment when released in a certain quantity or concentration in the environment. Scientific assessments of the impact of human and environmental exposure have determined that a number of these substances constitute or 
may constitute a danger to human health or to th e environment as per the criteria set out under 
section 64 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999  (CEPA 1999).  
The objective of the proposed Order Adding a Toxic Substance to Schedule 1 to the Canadian 
Environmental Protection Act, 1999  (hereinafter referred to as the proposed Order), made 
under subsection 90(1) of CEPA 1999, is to add polychlorinated naphthalenes, which have the 
molecular formula C
10H8-nCln, in which n is greater than 1, to the List of Toxic Substances in 
Schedule 1 of CEPA 1999.  
This addition enables the development of regul atory instruments for these substances under 
CEPA 1999. The Ministers may, however, choos e to develop non-regulatory instruments to 
manage human health and environmen tal risks posed by these substances. G/TBT/N/CAN/342 
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  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 2635-2643 (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 date the measure is adopted 
10. Final date for comments:  5 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-p r/p1/2011/2011-08-06/pdf/g1-14532.pdf  
(Canada Gazette) or : 
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2011/2011-08-06/html/reg3-eng.html  (English)  
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2011/2011-08-06/html/reg3-fra.html  (French)