G/TBT/N/BRA/1205  
7 July 2021  
(21-5371) 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):  
Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other 
variables of liquids or gases, e.g. flow meters, level gauges, manometers, heat meters 
(excl. instruments and apparatus of he ading 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032) (HS 9026); 
Transport exhaust emissions (ICS 13.040.50)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance N° 281, 28 June 2021. (18 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  Inmetro Ordinance No. 281 consolidates the Metrological 
Technical Regulation for measuring instruments intended to measure the volumetric 
fraction of certain components of exhaust gases of motor vehicle engines  
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 ef fects have been exhausted in 
time or the need cannot be identified. Thus, the inventories and complexity of regulatory 
processes will be reduced; Quality requirements  G/TBT/N/BRA/1205  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:  1) Brazilian Official Gazette 124 on 05 July 2021, section 1, 
page 36; 2) Inmetro Ordinance No. 155, 12 August 2005; 3) Inmetro Ordinance No. 327, 
16 September 2008  
https://www.in.gov.br/web/dou/ -/portaria -inmetro -n-286-de-29-de-junho -de-2021-
329488367  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC000968.pdf  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC001364.pdf  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  5 July 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 September 2021  
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/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002791.pdf