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G/SPS/N/CAN/627 
17 July 2012  
 (12-3876) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English/ 
 French 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  CANADA 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Department of Health 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Pest control products (ICS Code: 65.100) 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:    
5. Title of the notified document:  Proposed Amendment to the Pest Control Products 
Regulations  Language(s):  English and French  Number of pages:  19 
6. Description of content:  The Pest Control Products Act (PCPA)  and the Pest Control 
Product Regulations (PCPR)  provide the legislative mandate to regulate pest control 
products in Canada.  Under the PCPA, the Minister has the authority to allow the use of 
unregistered pest control products (i.e. a pest  control product that is not registered in 
Canada), if the use of such products does not pose any unacceptable health or 
environmental risks.  Using this authority, provisions in the Pest Control Products 
Regulations  currently allow the importation of a foreign product, exempt from Canadian 
registration requirements, provided it is deemed to be equivalent to a Canadian registered 
product and has an equivalent label. 
The proposed amendments are intended to form alize the existing approach to establishing 
equivalence between registered and foreign products as well as to simplify certain 
administrative aspects of the programme. 
The proposed amendments, consistent with the existing programme, would clarify the 
process by which chemical equivalence is determined between a registered Canadian 
product and a foreign (unregistere d) product.  The establishment of chemical equivalence is 
crucial since it helps ensure that the importation of a product under regulation does not present unacceptable health or environmental ri sks.  Also consistent with the existing 
programme, the amendments empower grower groups with the responsibility to nominate 
products for importation and to de fine the conditions that growers must meet in order to 
import products into Canada.  
Note:  This document has also been notified under the TBT Agreement. G/SPS/N/CAN/627 
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  7. Objective and rationale:  [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from other 
damage from pests.    
8. Is there a relevant international stan dard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text)   
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)    
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)    
[X] None Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [ ] Yes   [ ] No 
 If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:    
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:  Canada 
Gazette , Part I, 7 July 2012, Pages 1967-1985 (available in English and French) 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  Normally within five to eight months of 
publication in the Canada Gazette , Part I. 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :    
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  These Regulations come into force six months after the day on which they are 
published in the Canada Gazette , Part II. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments:  [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification 
and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  20 July 2012 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:    
13. Texts available from:  [ ] National Notification  Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:    
The electronic version of the regulatory text can be downloaded at:   
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/201 2/2012-07-07/pdf/g1- 14627.pdf#page=103  (Canada 
Gazette ) 
or  
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/ 2012/2012-07-07/html/reg9-eng.html  (English) 
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/ 2012/2012-07-07/html/reg9-fra.html  (French)