. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CAN/243 
5 June 2008 
 (08-2640) 
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 [ 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):   Cigarettes, cigarette 
tobacco, kreteks, leaf tobacco a nd tobacco sticks (ICS: 55.230, 65. 160) 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:   Proposed Amendment 
to the Tobacco Products Information Regulati ons (12 pages, available in English and 
French). 
6. Description of content:    
The Tobacco Products Information Regulations  establish the requirements for information 
that must be displayed on tobacco products that are for retail sale in Canada.  
 The Department of Health is propos ing regulations pursuant to the Tobacco Act  that would 
remove the obligation in the Tobacco Products Information Regulations to list numerical 
values for toxic emissions as well as respond to problems in those regulations with respect 
to redundant language, clarity and consistency a nd errors in terminology as identified by the 
Standing Committee on the Sc rutiny of Regulations. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health 
8. Relevant documents:   Canada Gazette , Part I, 31 May 2008, Pages 1717-1728 (available 
in English and French) G/TBT/N/CAN/243 
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9. Proposed date of adoption:   
 
Proposed date of entry into force:    Normally within 18 months of publication in 
the Canada Gazette , Part I. 
The Regulations would come into force on the 
day on which they are adopted.  However, if a 
package of a tobacco product and any 
accompanying leaflet displays information in accordance with the former Regulations, the former Regulations would continue to apply to 
the package and the leafle t until the day that is 
550 days after the day on which these 
Regulations come into force. 
10. Final date for comments:   14 August 2008 
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 regulator y text can be downloaded at:   
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/partI/2008/20080531/pdf/g1-14222.pdf (Canada Gazette ) 
or  http://canadagazette.gc.ca/pa rtI/2008/20080531/htm l/regle1-e.html
  (English)   
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/partI/2008/20080531/html/regle1-f.html  (French)