G/TBT/N/ECU/346  
3 April 2019 
(19-2112) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : ECUADOR  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2  and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  
Servicio Ecuatoriano de Normalización , INEN (Ecuadorian Standardization Service)  
Calle Baquerizo Moreno E8 -29 y Diego de Almagro  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3825960/90  
Website: http://www.normalizacion.gob.ec/  
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:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  (Under -Secretariat for Quality)  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca , MPCEIP (Ministry of 
Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries)  
Address : Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 2) 3948760 Ext. 2254 and 2272  
Email:  
puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec  
puntocontactoO TCECU@gmail.com  
aramon@produccion.gob.ec  
cyepez@produccion.gob.ec  
jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
Website: http://www.industrias.gob.ec/   
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) : 
Preparations and charges for fire -extinguishers ; charged fire -extinguishing grenades 
(HS 3813) ; - Fire extinguishers, whether or not charged (HS 842410)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified doc ument : Proyecto de 
Tercera Revisión del Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano PRTE INEN 006 (3R) "Extintores 
portátiles y agentes de extinción de fuego" (Draft third revision (3R) of Ecuadorian 
Standardization Institute Technical Regulation (PRTE INEN) No. 006 "P ortable fire 
extinguishers and fire -fighting agents" ) (11 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Technical Regulation establishes the 
requirements to be met by portable fire extinguishers and fire -fighting agents, prior to 
the marketing of domestic and imported products, with the aim of protecting human 
safety and preventing misleading practices.  
The notified Technical Regulation applies to the following products:  G/TBT/N/ECU/346  
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  1. Portable fire extinguishers with a capacity of up to 27kg, reg ardless of the fire -
fighting agent used, the quantity of fire -fighting agent and the class of fire for which the 
extinguisher is intended;  
2. Portable wheeled fire extinguishers with a capacity of up to 125L (33 gallons) for 
foam, and from 13.6kg to 158.8k g (30lb to 350lb) for other types of extinguishers, 
regardless of the fire -fighting agent used, the quantity of fire -fighting agent and the class 
of fire for which the extinguisher is intended;  
3. Dry-chemical and CO2 fire -fighting agents, water -based fire -fighting agents and 
clean agents.  
The notified Technical Regulation does not apply to permanently -installed fire -
extinguishing systems, even where parts of such systems are portable (such as hoses 
and nozzles attached to a fixed supply of fire -fighting ag ent). 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Consumer information ; labelling, prevention of misleading practices ; 
consumer protection ; protection of human health and safety.  
8. Relevant documents:  
Regulatory  references:  
1. ISO 2859 -1:1999+Amd 1:2011, Sampling procedures for inspection by attributes 
- Part 1 : Sampling schemes indexed by acceptance quality limit (AQL) for lot -by-lot 
inspection;  
2. ISO 3941:2007, Classification of fires;  
3. ISO 5923:2012, Equipm ent for fire protection and fire fighting - Fire extinguishing 
media - Carbon dioxide;  
4. ISO 7165:2017, Fire fighting - Portable fire extinguishers - Performance and 
construction;  
5. ISO 7202:2012, Fire protection - Fire extinguishing media - Powder;  
6. ISO 7203 -1:2011, Fire extinguishing media - Foam concentrates - Part 1 : 
Specification for low -expansion foam concentrates for top application to water -immiscible 
liquids;  
7. ISO 11601:2017, Fire fighting - Wheeled fire extinguishers - Performance and 
const ruction;  
8. ISO 13943:2017, Fire safety - Vocabulary;  
9. ISO/IEC 17025:2017, General requirements for the competence of testing and 
calibration laboratories;  
10. ISO/IEC 17050 -1:2004, Conformity assessment - Supplier's declaration of 
conformity - Part 1 : General requirements;  
11. ISO/IEC 17065:2012, Conformity assessment - Requirements for bodies certifying 
products, processes and services;  
12. ISO/IEC 17067:2013, Conformity assessment - Fundamentals of product 
certification and guidelines for product certi fication schemes;  
13. Norma EN 3 -7:2004+A1:2007, Extintores portátiles de incendios . Parte 7 : 
Características de funcionamiento y métodos de ensayo ; 
14. Norma EN 3 -8:2006, Extintores portátiles de incendios . Parte 8 : Requisitos 
adicionales a la 15. - Norma Europea EN 3 -7 para la construcción, resistencia a la presión 
y los ensayos mecánicos para extintores con una presión máxima admisible igual o inferior 
de 30 bar ; 
16. Normas EN 3 -9:2006 y EN 3 -9:2006/AC:2007, Extintores portátiles de incendios . 
Parte 9: Requisitos adicionales a la Norma Europea EN 3 -7 relativos a la resistencia a la 
presión de los extintores de CO2 ; G/TBT/N/ECU/346  
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  17. National Fire Protection Association Standard NFPA 10, 2018 Edition, Standard for 
Portable Fire Extinguishers;  
18. Standard for safe ty, American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/Underwriters 
Laboratories (UL) 711:2018, Rating and Fire Testing of Fire Extinguishers;  
19. Standard for safety, ANSI/UL 154:2018, Carbon -Dioxide Fire Extinguishers;  
20. Standard for safety, ANSI /UL 299:201 8, Dry Chemical Fire Extinguishers;  
21. Standard for safety, ANSI/UL 626:2018, Water Fire Extinguishers;  
22. National Standard of Canada CAN/ULC -S512-M87:1987, Halogenated Agent Hand 
and Wheeled Fire Extinguishers;  
23. Standard for safety, ANSI/UL 2129:201 7, Halocarbon Clean Agent Fire 
Extinguishers  
TRACEABILITY:  
1. G/TBT/N/ECU/16  
2. G/TBT/N/ECU/16/Add.1  
3. G/TBT/N/ECU/16/Add.2  
4. G/TBT/N/ECU/16/Add.3  
5. G/TBT/N/ECU/16/Add.4  
9. Proposed date of adoption : 165 days from the date of notification  
Proposed date  of entry into force : 180 days from date of adoption  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from the date of notification.  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if avail able, of other body:  
Contact and/or National Enquiry Point:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  (Under -Secretariat for Quality)  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca , MPCEIP (Ministry of 
Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries)  
Address : Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 2) 3948760 Ext. 2254 and 2272  
Email:  
puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec  
puntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.com  
aramon@produccion.gob.ec  
cyepez@produccion.gob.ec  
jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
http://www.normalizacion.gob.ec/  
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