WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CAN/26
11 January 2002
(02-0139)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original: English/
French
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
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,
ext. 491, Fax.: +1 613 569 7808, E-mail: info@scc.ca
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):   Motor vehicle exhaust
gas (ICS:  43.060)
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Request for
Comments on Possible Measures to Prevent Motor Vehicle Exhaust Gas Poisoning
(pages 4817-4834; English and French).
6. Description of content:   This notice presents an overview of the scientific mechanism of
motor vehicle exhaust gas poisoning, an analysis of the incidence of death in Canada from
exhaust gas poisoning, and an examination of the various courses of action open to the
Department in attempting to prevent the injuries and deaths that occur due to exhaust gas
poisoning.
The Department could adopt one of three appro aches to the problem of preventing exhaust
gas poisonings. It could maintain the status quo, adopt a non-regulatory approach, orintroduce regulatory requirements.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Protection of human health and safety
8. Relevant documents:   Canada Gazette, Part I, 22 December 2001
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }Not stated
10. Final date for comments:   1 February 2002
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 Canada Gazette, Part I can be downloaded at:
http://canada.gc.ca/gazette/part1/pdf/g1-13551.pdf