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13 July 2021  
(21-5504) 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):  Measuring 
or checking instruments, appliances and machines not elsewhere specified in chapter 90; 
profile projectors (HS 9031); Measuring instruments (ICS 17.040.30)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance N° 293, 08 July 2021 (3 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  Inmetro Ordinance No. 293 consolidates the Metrological 
Technical Regulation on the possibility for importers and manufacturers of measurin g 
instruments to obtain authorisation to issue a declaration of conformity in place of the 
initial verification.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Decree 10.139 of 28 November 2019 provides 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, the inventories and complexity of regulatory 
processes will be reduced. The need to carry out the initial verification of measuring 
instruments before they are made available for marketing and the growing demand for 
initial verification of measuring instruments and the limita tion of human capital to carry 
out this activity; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:  1) Brazilian Official Gazette 129 on 12 July 2021, section 1, 
page 29; 2) Inmetro Ordinance No. 336, 15 July 2019  
https://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/ -/portaria -inmetro -n-293-de-8-de-julho-de-2021-
331353153  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002585.pdf  G/TBT/N/BRA/1211  
 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:  18 July 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  18 July 2021  
10. Final date for comments:  Not applicable  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002796.pdf  
 