WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.00/200
18 April 2000
(00-1561)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   BRAZIL
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial
Quality-INMETRO
Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be
indicated if different from above:           
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):   Seamless steel cylinder
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Project to the
certification of seamless steel cylinder, intended to storage vehicular methane fuel (full text
available in Portuguese, 2 pages)
6. Description of content:   This regulation establishes that domestic or imported seamless
steel cylinder intended to store vehicular methane fuel must be compulsorily certified on thescope of the Brazilian Certification System in order to be marketed in the country.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Consumer safety
8. Relevant documents:   CONTRAN Resolution No. 25, 21.05.1998;  CONMETRO
Resolution No. 02, 11.12.1997
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:  20 March 2000
10. Final date for comments:   13 April 2000
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, e-mail and telefax
number of the other body:           