. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/BRA/6
25 April 2001
(01-2077)
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, Standardization and Industrial
Quality – INMETRO
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:
National Institute of Metrology,
Standardization and Industrial Quality -– INMETRO
Telephone: +(55) 21 563 2854
Telefax: +(55) 21 502 0415
Email: asbtcponto@inmetro.gov.br
Web-site: www.inmetro.gov.br
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [     ], 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):   Clinical thermometer
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Mercosur Technical
Regulation for Clinical Thermometers of Mercury in Glass Intended for Measurement of the
Human Body Temperature (Amendment of th e GMC No. 18/00 Resolution  (14 pages, in
Portuguese and Spanish)
6. Description of content:   Recommendation amending item 1.1 of the GMC No. 18/00
Resolution (previously notified as G/TBT/Notif.99.593), that obeys the need to clarify the
reach of the scope of the regulation, excepting the thermometers of special use
(thermometers for premature babies), which for its measurement scale, value of the smallest
scale division and its maximum errors tolerance, do not satisfy the prescriptions established
in the present regulation.  This proposal is limited to include the term "premature" after theexpression " … thermometers for babies … " mentioned in the item 1.1 of the Appendix of
the GMC No. 18/00 Resolution.  This amendment is based on the OIML 7
Recommendation.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Consumer safetyG/TBT/N/BRA/6
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8. Relevant documents:   GMC No. 18/00 Resolution and OIML No. 7 Recommendation
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }Not stated
10. Final date for comments:   25 May 2001
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:           