. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CAN/208 
13 August 2007 
 (07-3395) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English/ 
 French 
 
 
  
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   CANADA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Department of Health 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
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):   Cigarettes, cigarette 
tobacco, kreteks, bidis, tobacco sticks, ciga rette papers, cigarette tubes and filters  
(ICS: 65.160) 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:    
Proposed Promotion of Tobacco Products and A ccessories Regulations (Prohibited Terms)  
(available in English and French, 9 pages) 
6. Description of content:   The Department of Health is pr oposing regulations pursuant to the 
Tobacco Act , that would prohibit the use of the terms “light” and “mild”, variations in their 
spelling, abbreviations and modifiers of those terms. Other parts of speech and grammatical 
forms of the terms “light” or “mild” would also be prohibited if used in the context of the 
proposed regulations.  
Further, the prohibition would cover the pr omotion of tobacco products and branded 
accessories which display the terms “light” and “mild”. The proposed regulations would 
prohibit the use of the terms in advertisemen ts of a tobacco product. It would also be 
prohibited to package a tobacco product in a p ackage which displays the terms. As well, a G/TBT/N/CAN/208 
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  branded accessory could not be sold if it disp layed the terms. Finally, a tobacco product or 
branded accessory could not be displayed for re tail sale if the terms are on the packaging of 
the product or accessory. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health 
8. Relevant documents:   Canada Gazette, Part I, 4 August 2007, Pages 2239 - 2247 
(available in English and French) 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    Not stated 
Sections 6 and 7 would come-into-force 120 
days after the Regulations are registered.  The 
rest of the provisions would come-into-force 
on the day on which they are registered. 
10. Final date for comments:   18 October 2007 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
The electronic version of the regulatory text can be downloaded at:  
(http://canadagazette.gc.ca/partI/2007/20070804/pdf/g1-14131.pdf )