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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/CAN/189/Add.1 
24 July 2008 
 (08-3563) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English/ 
 French 
 
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
 
Addendum
 
 
 
The following communication, received on 22 July 2008, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of Canada . 
 
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 Transitioning the Legal Establishm ent of Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) for Pesticides From the 
Food and Drugs Act  to the Pest Control Products Act :  Establishment of MRLs  
 
As a means to improve the responsiveness of the regulatory system, an Interim Marketing 
Authorization (IMA) was issued on 18 October 2003 (G/SPS/N/CAN/189) to permit the immediate 
use of propiconazole on blackberries, loganberries and raspberries, while the regulatory process to 
formally amend the Regulations was undertaken.  Members were informed that a Revision to the 
notification would be published at the start of th e amendment process at which time a comment period 
would be provided. 
  However, the process by which MRLs are lega lly established in Canada was subsequently 
modified to allow pesticide MRLs to be legally established under the Pest Control Products Act  
(PCPA) without their having to be adopted by regulation under the Food and Drugs Act  (FDA) after 
consultation through the Canada Gazette .  In anticipation of this revi sed process, consultations were 
continued via Proposed MRL documents published by the Pest Management Regulatory Agency 
(PMRA) with the WTO notification process remaining unchanged.  
On 20 December 2006, the PMRA released the document entitled Transitioning the Legal 
Establishment of Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) for Pesticides from the Food and Drugs Act to the 
Pest Control Products Act:  Consultation on Proposed MRLs (G/SPS/N/CAN/276).  The objective of 
this document was to consult on the MRLs that ha d been proposed by the PMRA prior to the PCPA 
coming into force on 28 June 2006 but had not yet been prepublished for comment in the Canada 
Gazette , Part I. 
 
With the coming into effect of Bill C-28 on 16 June 2008, amending the FDA to allow 
pesticide MRLs to be legally established under the PCPA, the PMRA published on 9 July 2008 a 
corresponding established MRL document entitled Transitioning the Legal Establishment of 
Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) for Pesticides From  the Food and Drugs Act to the Pest Control 
Products Act: Establishment of MRLs  (EMRL2008-02).  This document established MRLs for, inter 
alia, the pesticide chemical in or on the f ood commodities notified under G/SPS/N/CAN/189. 
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  Members are requested to consult EMRL 2008-02 (G/SPS/N/CAN/276/Add.1) for the 
established MRLs notified under G/SPS/N/CAN/189.  
The full text of EMRL2008-02 (adopted meas ure) can be downloaded from the Internet 
addresses indicated below:  
http://www.pmra-arla.gc.ca/eng lish/pdf/emrl/emrl2008-02-eng.pdf
 (English)  
http://www.pmra-arla.gc.ca/fran cais/pdf/emrl/emrl2008-02-fra.pdf  (French) 
 
or requested from:  
Canadian Enquiry Point 
Standards Council of Canada 200-270 Albert Street Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6N7 
Tel:  +(613) 238-3222 
Fax:  +(613) 569-7808 E-mail:  enquirypoint@scc.ca 
  
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