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21 December 2021  
(21-9522) 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):  Parts and 
accessories for tractors, motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, motor 
cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons, motor 
vehicles for the transport  of goods and special purpose motor vehicles of heading 8701 
to 8705, n.e.s (HS 8708)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance N° 496, 13 December 2021. (12 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  Inmetro Ordinance No. 496 consolidates technical quality 
regulation and conformity assessment requirements for vehicular axis  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Decree 10.139 of 28 November 2019 provides f or 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 inve ntories and complexity of regulatory 
processes will be reduced; Other  
8. Relevant documents:  1) Brazilian Official Gazette 235 on 15 December 2021, section  1, 
page 102  
https://www.in.gov.br/web/dou/ -/portaria -n-496-de-13-de-dezembro -de-2021-
367543315  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  3 January 2022  
Proposed date of entry into fo rce: 3 January 2022  G/TBT/N/BRA/1287  
 
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  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:   
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://sistema -sil.inmetro.gov.br/rtac/RTAC002882.pdf  
 