. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/CAN/358 
22 February 2012  
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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, Onta rio, 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):  Motor Vehicle Tires 
(ICS: 43.040, 83.160) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposed Motor 
Vehicle Tire Safety Regula tions (15 pages, available in English and French)  
6. Description of content:  The proposed Motor Vehicle Tire  Safety Regulations  (the proposed 
Regulations) would repeal and replace the existing Motor Vehicle Tire Safety Regulations, 
1995 (MVTSR 1995)  to facilitate alignment with the more stringent U.S. tire safety 
regulations.  
The proposed Regulations are ba sed on the text of the MVTSR 1995, but changes were made 
to improve clarity and internal consistency, to be consistent with current legal drafting 
practices, and to enable Technical Standards Document (TSD) alignment with the U.S. tire 
safety standards through the incorp oration by reference of TSDs.  
The proposed Regulations would introduce most  of the requirements of U.S tire safety 
standards Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 109, 119 and 139  into Technical 
Standards Document No. 109, New and Certain Specialty Tires ; Technical Standards 
Document No. 119, New Tires for Motor Vehicles With a GVWR of More Than 4 536 kg and 
Motorcycles and Technical Standards Document No. 139, New Radial Ply Tires for Motor 
Vehicles With a GVWR of 4 536 kg or Less, respectively . 
Consequential amendments to paragraph 120(2)(c) of the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations  
(MVSR) would be necessary, since this paragraph references the MVTSR 1995. Also, 
Schedule III  of  the MVSR includes the Canadian Motor Vehicle Safety Standards  (CMVSS) G/TBT/N/CAN/358 
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  110 and 120. These two safety standards specify tire and rim selection requirements and rim 
marking requirements. CMVSS 110 and 120 inco rporate TSDs 110 and 120, respectively. 
Amendments would also be made to TSDs 110 a nd 120 since they make reference to various 
subsections of the MVTSR 1995.  
The proposed Regulations would align the Ca nadian and U.S. tire testing and marking 
requirements. It is  anticipated that this would reduce  the cost and complexity of product 
testing for tire and vehicle manufacturers, while improvi ng safety for Canadians. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human safety  
8. Relevant documents:   Canada Gazette, Part I, 11 Fe bruary 2012, Pages 234-248 (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. 
These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are published in the Canada Gazette, Part II.  
Transitional provision:  Until September 1, 
2014, tires of a class prescribed by subsection 
3(1), 4(1) or 5(1) may, instead of conforming to 
the applicable requirements of sections 3 to 5, conform to the appli cable requirements of 
sections 5, 6 and 8 to 10 of the Motor Vehicle Tire Safety Regulations , 1995 as they read on 
the day before the day on which these 
Regulations came into force. 
10. Final date for comments:  26 April 2012 
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-p r/p1/2012/2012-02-11/pdf/g1-14606.pdf#page  ( Canada 
Gazette ) 
or  
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2012/2012-02-11/html/reg2-eng.html  (English)  
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2012/2012-02-11/html/reg2-fra.html  (French) 
The TSD documents are available in English and French on Transport Canada’s Website: 
http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/roadsafety/safe vehicles-mvstm_tsd -index_e-629.htm#tsd