G/TBT/N/ECU/403  
3 May 2019 
(19-3063) 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 to 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 A lfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 - 2272 
Email:  
puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec  
puntocontactoOTCECU@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) : Machines, 
each of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 10 kg : (HS 84501) ; Machines, each of a dry 
linen capacity exceeding 10 kg (HS 845020)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified do cument : Proyecto de 
Primera Revisión del Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano PRTE INEN 077 (1R) "Eficiencia 
energética de lavadoras de ropa de uso domestico"  (Draft first revision (1R) of Ecuadorian 
Standardization Institute Technical Regulation (PRTE INEN) No. 077 "Energy efficiency of 
washing machines for domestic use") (17 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Technical Regulation establishes the requirements 
to be met by washing machines for domestic use, prior to the marketing of do mestic and 
imported products, with the aim of protecting the environment and preventing misleading 
practices.  G/TBT/N/ECU/403  
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  It applies to the following products:  
• Washing machines for domestic use;  
• Vertical -axis automatic washing machines, the drum of which has a volumet ric 
capacity not exceeding 45.30 L;  
• Vertical -axis automatic washing machines, the drum of which has a volumetric 
capacity exceeding 45.30 L;  
• Horizontal -axis automatic washing machines;  
• Semi-automatic washing machines;  
• Manual washing machines.  
The notified Technical Regulation does not apply to:  
• Washing machines for domestic use that are not powered by electricity;  
• Washing machines for industrial or commercial use.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Consume r information ; Labelling ; Prevention of misleading practices ; 
consumer protection ; Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents:  
Normative 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/IEC 17025:2017, General requirements for the competence of testing and 
calibration laboratories;  
3. ISO/IEC 17050 -1:2004, Conformity assessment - Supplier's declaration of 
confor mity - Part 1 : General requirements;  
4. ISO/IEC 17067:2013, Conformity assessment - Fundamentals of product 
certification and guidelines for product certification schemes;  
5. Mexican Official Standard NOM-005-ENER -2016, Eficiencia energética de 
lavadoras electro doméstica de ropa, límites, método de prueba y etiquetado ; 
6. Ecuadorian Technical Standard NTE INEN 2659:2013, Aparatos electrodomésticos 
y similares . Lavadoras eléctricas de ropa . Métodos de ensayo para el consumo de 
energía, el consumo de agua y la capacid ad volumétrica . 
TRACEABILITY:  
1. G/TBT/N/ECU/95  
2. G/TBT/N/ECU/95/Add.1  
3. G/TBT/N/ECU/95/Add.2  
4. G/TBT/N/ECU/95/Add.3  
5. G/TBT/N/ECU/95/Add.4  
9. Proposed date of adoption : 60 days from the date of notification  
Proposed date of entry into force : 180 days from the date of adoption  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from notification  G/TBT/N/ECU/403  
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  11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, 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 - 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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