WORLD TRADE
G/TBT/N/CAN/109
8 November 2004
ORGANIZATION
(04-4721)
Original: English/
French
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated 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: info@scc.ca
3.
Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [
4.
Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Pesticides (ICS : 65.100)
5.
Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Proposed Pest
Control Products Adverse Effects Reporting Regulations (pages 2952-2977; English and
French)
6.
Description of content: Pest control products (pesticides) are regulated in Canada under
the federal Pest Control Products Act (PCPA). A new PCPA was given Royal Assent on
December 12, 2002, and will be brought into force once existing regulations have been
revised and key new regulations have been made. Once in force, the new PCPA will replace
the existing PCPA.
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One of the new provisions of the new PCPA (section 13) is the requirement for registrants,
and applicants for the registration of a pesticide, to report prescribed information (such as
adverse effects) about their pesticides. (A company in whose name a pesticide is registered
is called a “registrant.”) These proposed Regulations are one of the key regulations that will
be made when the new PCPA is brought into force, and would specify the types of
information to be reported and the time frames for reporting. Registrants and applicants
would be required to report information concerning adverse effects related to their
pesticides in Canada or the United States (U.S.) or generated through studies conducted
anywhere in the world. Currently, such reports are received only on a voluntary basis.
7.
Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:
Protection of human and animal health; protection of the environment
8.
Relevant documents: Canada Gazette, Part I, 23 October 2004
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9.
Proposed date of adoption: not stated
Proposed date of entry into force: 1 January 2006
10.
Final date for comments: 6 January 2005
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/2004/20041023/pdf/g1-13843.pdf