WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.99.484
5 October 1999
(99-4146)
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):   Vehicles
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proposed Amendment
to the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations (Vehicles Imported Temporarily for Special
Purposes, Compliance Labels and Competition Vehicles) (pages 2765-2777; English and
French)
6. Description of content:   This proposed amendment would make essentially three changes
to the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations.  It would introduce a new prescribed class ofvehicle called "vehicle imported temporarily for special purposes";  it would prohibit
anyone but the manufacturer from affixing the compliance label;  and it would introduce an
identification requirement for all competition vehicles, while at the same time deregulating
competition motorcycles and competition snowmobiles.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Protection of human safety
8. Relevant documents:   Canada Gazette, Part I, 18 September 1999
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }Not stated
10. Final date for comments:   17 December 1999
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, e-mail and telefax
number of the other body:           