WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/CS/N/110/Rev.1
27 October 1999
(99-4666)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
Under paragraph C of the Code of Good Practice for the Preparation, Adoption and
Application of Standards contained in Annex 3 to the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to
Trade, "Standardizing bodies that have accepted or w ithdrawn from this Code shall notify this fact to
the ISO/IEC Information Centre in Geneva."  The following notification conveyed to the Secretariat
from the ISO/IEC Information Centre is being circulated for the information of Members.
NOTIFICATION
UNDER PARAGRAPH C OF THE WTO TBT CODE OF GOOD PRACTICE
Notification of Acceptance
Revision
Country/Customs Territory/ Regional Arrangement:  CANADA
Name of standardizing body:   Standards Council of Canada
Address of standardizing body: 45 O'Connor Street, Suite 1200
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 6N7  Canada
Telephone:  +613 238-3222 Telefax:  +613 995-4564 Telex:           
E-mail:  info@scc.ca Internet:  http://www.scc.ca
Type of standardizing body:
[X]  central governmental [     ]  local governmental [     ]  non-governmental
Scope of current and expected standardization activities:  The scope is unlimited.  SCC
approves National Standards of Canada (NSCs) in every subject area.  SCC does not itself developstandards but accredits Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) which carry out standards
development and submit candidate NSCs to SCC for approval.
The following four SDOs are accredited by SCC:
• Bureau de normalisation du Québec (BNQ)
• Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB)
• Canadian Standards Association-International (CSA)
• Underwriters' Laborator ies of Canada (ULC)
Date:  23 September 1999