Export Alert! - RegWatch - Standards Alert!

• Export Alert!, the only automated electronic mail (E-mail) notification system of its kind in the world;
• RegWatch, a database of standards referenced in federal legislation;
• Standards Alert! an E-mail notification service on new and revised Canadian and international standards.

Eligibility Criteria

Summary

What is Export Alert!?

Export Alert! provides you with advance warning when foreign regulators are changing the requirements that apply to your products. A service of the Standards Council's WTO/NAFTA Enquiry Point, Export Alert! gives you:

• automatic notification of proposed regulatory changes in your field and country of interest;
• access to the full text of changes; and
• the opportunity to comment on changes.

Export Alert! is a service that automatically e-mails companies when governments in any of 148 World Trade Organization (WTO) member countries - including Canada - are proposing changes to the rules that govern products. Subscribers choose from among 41 fields of interest and 148 countries that they want to track. They are then notified by e-mail whenever a government is proposing a change to a technical regulation, conformity assessment regime or mandatory standard. Subscribers can also use the service to obtain full regulatory texts and relay comments back to government officials.

What is RegWatch?

RegWatch is a fully searchable database specifically designed for those interested in tracking voluntary standards referenced in Canadian federal regulations

The RegWatch database includes a number of key pieces of information, including:

• location of standard reference within a particular federal regulation;
• information about the standard, including whether there is more current version than the one referenced in law, as well as a link to bibliographic data about the standard;
• the Standards Development Organization (SDO) responsible for development of the standard; and
• links to the full text of the legislation.

A standard for the purpose of the database is generally something that has been created by a national, international or foreign standards development organization, federal regulator, industry group or similar organization and specifies some form of qualitative and/or quantitative standard.

The database does not include tariffs and trade agreements, maps and references to the others regulations. Some exceptions have been made where it was felt it was in the greater interest of the public and industry to include an entry as a standard than excluded it.

What is Standards Alert!?

Standards Alert! send an automatic E-mail update about changes to standards that matter to you. Be among the first to learn about changes to Canadian and international standards.

Standards Alert! allows you to:

• monitor a particular field of interest/subject area;
• track an individual standard (including Canadian, ISO and IEC);
• receive automatic alerts when changes are made to these standards;
• receive a bibliographic summary of the standards selected; and
• order standards online.

• Subscribe to Standards Alert!
• Subscribe to Export Alert!
• Subscribe to RegWatch

Ontario Contact(s):
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