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18 June 2021  
(21-4993) 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):  Pre-
packaged products  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance N° 265, 15 June 2021 (6 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  The type of measure (quanti ty) of the quantitative indication of 
the nominal content of certain pre -packaged goods, compulsory form as well as 
exemptions from compulsory obligation.  
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 establish the type of measure (quantity) of the 
indication quantitative content of certain pre -packaged goods, in a compulsory manner 
as well as exemp tions from mandatory. The need for internalization of Resolutions No. 
38/05, No. 2/01, No. 50/00 and No. 49/93 of the Common Market Group - MERCOSUR 
GMC.; Consumer information, labelling  
8. Relevant documents:  1) Brazilian Official Gazette 111 on 16 June May 2021, section 1, 
page 188 2) Inmetro Ordinance No. 265  
https://www.in.gov.br/web/dou/ -/portaria -inmetro -n-265-de-15-de-junho -de-2021-
326179605  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002779.pdf  G/TBT/N/BRA/1196  
 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:  2 August 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  2 August 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/RTAC002779.pdf  
 