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29 June 2021  
(21-5206) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  BRAZIL   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology 
(INMETRO)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
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, Quality and Technology – INMETRO  
Telephone: +(55) 21 2145.3817  
Email: barreirastecnicas@inmetro.gov.br   
Web-site: www.inmetro.gov.br/barreirastecnicas  
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):  Building 
blocks and bricks of cement, concrete or artificial stone, whether or not reinforced (HS 
681011)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance N° 272, 23 June 202 1. (7 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  Consolidation of technical regulation for blocks of concrete for 
masonry.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Decree 10.139 of 28 November 2019 pro vides for the need for revision and 
consolidation of normative acts below the decree. It aims to update and consolidate 
regulatory acts, elimination of obsolete regulations whose effects have been exhausted in 
time or the need cannot be identified. Thus, t he inventories and complexity of regulatory 
processes will be reduced. The purpose of the regulation is to establish the conditions 
under which concrete blocks for masonry should be marketed, as well as the methodology 
for determining their effective dimen sion, with a view to prevention of deceptive trade 
practices.; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
1) Brazilian Official Gazette 1118 on 25 June 2021, section 1, page 181 2) Inmetro 
Ordinance No. 220, 29 April 2013 3) Inmetro Ordinance No. 272, 23 June 2021  
https://www.in.gov.br/web/dou/ -/portaria -n-272-de-23-de-junho -de-2021-328226862  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC001974.pdf  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/leg islacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002785.pdf  G/TBT/N/BRA/1201  
 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 July 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 July 2021  
10. Final date for comments:  Not applicable  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology – INMETRO  
Telephone: +(55) 21 2145.3817  
Email: barreirastecnicas@inmetro.gov.br   
Web-site: www.inmetro.gov.br/barreirastecnicas  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislac ao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002785.pdf  
 