. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.99.287
16 June 1999
(99-2438)
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 Transport
Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be
indicated if different from above:   National Enquiry Point
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [    ], 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):   Tether anchorages
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposed Amendment
to the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations (User-ready Tether Anchorages for Restraint
Systems – No. 2) (pages 1717-1735; English and French)
6. Description of content:  On September 1, 1989, it became mandatory for all passenger cars
to be equipped with tether anchorages for securing the tether straps on restraint systems.  An
amendment to section 210.1, “User-Ready Teth er Anchorages”, of the Motor Vehicle
Safety Regulations, which governs tether anchorages, was published in the Canada Gazette,
Part II, on September 30, 1998.  This amendment requires that user-ready tether anchoragesmust be installed in passenger cars as of September 1, 1999.  The amendment also extends
the requirement for user-ready tether anchorages  to MPVs and trucks with a gross vehicle
weight rating of 3 864 kg or less and an unloaded vehicle mass of 2 495 kg or less as of
September 1, 2000.
Following the publication of the amendment, the Department received some requests for
clarification.  The Department has studied these requests and as a result is publishing a
proposal to amend the requirement to identify a cover over a user-ready tether anchorage bya symbol, to amend the tether anchorage symbol and its minimum size and to correct some
typographical errors in some figures.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Protection of Human safety
8. Relevant documents:   Canada Gazette, Part I, 5 June 1999
9. Proposed date of adoption:  Not stated
Proposed date of entry into force: 1 September 1999 for passenger cars;
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10. Final date for comments:   4 August 1999
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, e-mail and telefax
number of the other body:           