. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/BRA/47
30 August 2002
(02-4648)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
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, Standardisation and Industrial
Quality-INMETRO
Telephone: +(55) 21 2563.2821
Telefax: +(55) 21 2502.6542Email: pontofocal.tbt.omc@inmetro.gov.br
Web-site: www.inmetro.gov.br
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:           
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):   Liquid-in-glass
thermometers (HS: 9025.11)
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   M i n i s t e r i a l
Act number 3, January 10th, 2002 (Portaria  no. 3 de 10 de janeiro de 2002), issued by
Inmetro, amending pattern approval procedures for liquid-in-glass thermometers of total
immersion, with outer or inner scales, type LIS (long inner scale) or type SIS (short inner
scale), used to measure temperature in ethyl alcohol and its mixtures with water. (12 pages,
in Portuguese).
6. Description of content:   Technical Regulation which lays down amendments of  the pattern
approval procedures for liquid-in-glass thermometers of total immersion, with outer or inner
scales, type LIS (long inner scale) or type SIS (short inner scale), used to measuretemperature in ethyl alcohol and its mixtures with water, as found in Ministerial Act number
245, October 17
th, 2000 (Portaria no. 245 de 17 de outubro de 2000). More specifically, the
present technical regulation make alterations on the requirements for the expansion chamber
of the liquid-in-glass thermometers, on their nominal scale and on the maximum length for
SIS-type liquid-in-glass thermometers.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Pattern approval procedures and consumer’s safety.G/TBT/N/BRA/47
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8. Relevant documents:   Ministerial Act number 3, January 10th, 2002 (Portaria  no. 3 de 10
de janeiro de 2002); Ministerial Act number 245, October 17th, 2000 (Portaria no. 245 de 17
de outubro de 2000).
9. Proposed date of adoption:  13 January 2002
Proposed date of entry into force: 13 January 2002
10. Final date for comments:   Not stated
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:
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/articulacoes/pontofocal/buscaNotificacao.asp