CANADA: MOTOR VEHICLES The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif. 95.336. 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. 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Motor vehicles. 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Proposed Amendment to the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations (pages 4002-4005). 6. Description of content: This Amendment to the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations, Section 214 ``Side Door Strength'' will reduce the safety hazard caused by intrusion into the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle impacted in the side during an accident. It extends to buses, multipurpose passenger vehicles (mpv's), and trucks having a gross vehicle weight rating of less than 4,536 kgs., the requirement which currently applies only to passenger cars. With the vehicle firmly tied down, the side doors must provide a specified minimum resistance to crush when they are loaded from the outside by a slowly moving half cylinder. The cylinder, moving over a distance of 460 mm, simulates the intrusion of a round pole into the side of the vehicle. 7. Objective and rationale: Protection of human safety. 8. Relevant documents: Canada Gazette, Part I, 18 November 1995. 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: Not stated. 10. Final date for comments: 16 February 1996. (346)

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