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9 August 2021  
(21-6137) 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):  Active 
yeasts (HS 210210)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance N° 336, 05 August 2021 (1 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  Inmetro Ordinance No.  336 consolidates the technical 
regulation on the quantitative indication of fresh biological yeast.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer protection. 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 invento ries and 
complexity of regulatory processes will be reduced.; Other  
8. Relevant documents:   
1) Brazilian Official Gazette 148 on 06 August 2021, section 1, page 49 2) Inmetro 
Ordinance No. 76, 14 April 1993  
https://www.in.gov.br/web/dou/ -/portaria -inmetro -n-336-de-5-de-agosto -de-2021-
336643900  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC000150.pdf  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 December 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 December 2021  G/TBT/N/BRA/1228  
 
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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  
 
https://www.in.gov.br/web/dou/ -/portaria -inmetro -n-336-de-5-de-agosto -de-2021-
336643900  
 