. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CAN/325 
12 November 2010  
 (10-6045) 
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 governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Department of Transport 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail 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 [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):  Motorcycle Brake 
Systems ICS 43.040;  43.140 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:  Proposed Amendment 
to the Motor Vehicle Safety  Regulations (Motorcycle Br ake Systems — Standard 122) 
(8 pages, available in English and French). 
6. Description of content:  This proposed amendment to secti on 122 of Schedule IV of the 
Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations, hereafter referred to as the Canadian safety standard, would recognize as an alternative requirem ent the United Nations Economic Commission for 
Europe (UN/ECE) Regulation No. 78 on motorcycle brake systems, hereafter referred to as 
the European safety standard.  The Canadian safe ty standard is currently harmonized with the 
United States safety standard on motorcycle brake systems.  Offering the European safety standard as an alternative, while also mainta ining harmony with the United States safety 
standard, would f acilitate the importa tion and exportation of motorcycles.  
This proposed amendment would also introduc e a definition for maximum speed, which is 
further referenced to better defi ne the prescribed classes of motorcycle and to correlate these 
prescribed classes with the vehicle categories within the European safety standard. G/TBT/N/CAN/325 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human safety  
8. Relevant documents:   Canada Gazette, Part I, 30 Oc tober 2010, pages 2816–2823 (available 
in English and French) 
Currently, the Canadian safety standard incorporates by reference Technical Standards 
Document (TSD) No. 122, Revision 1, Motorc ycle Brake Systems, which reproduces the 
United States safety standard.  As part of this regulatory initiative, the Department of 
Transport would also update certain subsections within this TSD, and the new version would 
become Revision 2. 
The Technical Standards Document 122, Revi sion 2 (proposed), can be downloaded from 
Transport Canada Website:   http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng /acts-regulations/re gulations-crc-c1038.htm
 
(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:  13 January 2011 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and website addresses, if available of the other body:  
The electronic version of the regulator y text can be downloaded at:   
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp -pr/p1/2010/2010-10-30/pdf/g1-14444.pdf   (Canada Gazette) 
or  http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2010/2010-10-30/html/reg4-eng.html
  (English)  
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p1/2010/2010-10-30/html/reg4-fra.html   (French)