G/TBT/N/BRA/1216  
19 July 2021  
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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   
Website: 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):  
ELECTRICAL MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT AND PARTS THEREOF; SOUND RECORDERS 
AND REPRODUCERS, TELEVISION IMAGE AND SOUND RECORDERS AND REPRODUCERS, 
AND PARTS AND ACCESSORIES OF SUCH ARTICLES (HS 85); Audio, video and 
audio visual systems in general (ICS 33.160.01)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance N° 310, 14 July 2021 (2 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  Inmetro Ordinance No. 310 consolidates technical re gulation 
for power sound of stereos and their similar  
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 nee d to standardize information on sound equipment and 
its home -use similar, due to the diversity of forms used by domestic and foreign 
manufacturers for the indication of the sound power of the product (watt unit of 
measurement) and to adopt a single form of  sound power identification.; Quality 
requirements . 
8. Relevant documents:   
1) Brazilian Official Gazette 133 on 16 July 2021, section 1, page 36 2) Inmetro Ordinance 
No. 268, 21 September 2009  G/TBT/N/BRA/1216  
 
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  https://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/ -/portaria -n-310-de-14-de-julho-de-2021-
332446814  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC001493.pdf  
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:   
National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology – INMETRO  
Telephone:  +(55) 21 2145.3817  
Email: barreirastecnicas@inmetro.gov.br   
Website: www.inmetro.gov.br/barreirastecnicas  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002806.pdf