WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CAN/31
21 March 2002
(02-1475)
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 Industry
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 [     ], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [ X], 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):   Terminal apparatus
(ICS: 33.050)
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Telecommunications
Act – Notice No. SMSE-005-02 – Amendment No. 5 to CS-03, Issue 8 (page 528, Englishand French).
6. Description of content:   Notice is hereby given that Industry Canada is releasing
Amendment 5 to Issue 8 of the Certification Specification 03 (CS-03) dated March 9, 2001.
In light of the introduction of the Declar ation of Conformity (DoC), the following
modifications have been made in CS-03: the title of CS-03 has changed to Terminal
Apparatus Compliance Specificatio n; a new section in the opening pages establishes the
regulatory linkages to administrative and procedural requirements; all references to
“certified” and “certification” have been modified or deleted. Section 5 of Part I has been
revised. Furthermore, the Telephone Receive Volume Control requirements in Section 6 ofPart V have been updated, and Part VIII has been updated to include requirements for
HDSL4, SHDSL and SDSL terminal equipment.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Protection of the network.
8. Relevant documents:   Canada Gazette, Part I, 9 March 2002
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }Not stated
10. Final date for comments:   8 May 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 also be downloaded at:
http://canada.gc.ca/gazette/part1/pdf/g1-13610.pdf.