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8 July 2021  
(21-5399) 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):  Trailing 
stock (ICS 45.060.20)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance N° 282, 28 June 2021. (4 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  Consolidated Metr ological Technical Regulation for cargo tanks 
mounted on railway vehicles  
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 norma tive 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; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:  1) Brazilian Official Gazette 125 on 06 July 2021, section 1, 
page 34; 2) Inmetro Ordinance No. 112, 24 May 1989; 3) Inmetro Ordinance No. 438, 
12 December 2007  
https://www.in.gov.br/web/dou/ -/portaria -inmetro -n-282-de-28-de-junho -de-2021-
330274020  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC000091.pdf  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legisla cao/rtac/pdf/RTAC001250.pdf  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  2 August 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  2 August 2021  G/TBT/N/BRA/1207  
 
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  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/RTAC002792.pdf  
 