G/TBT/N/ECU/368  
16 April 2019 
(19-2540) Page: 1/2 
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 Alfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 and 2272  
Email: puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec ; 
puntocontact oOTCECU@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) : Pocket 
lighters, gas fuelled, non -refillable (HS 961310) ; Pocket lighters, gas fuelled, refillable 
(HS 961320) ; Other lighters (HS 961380) ; (ICS: 97.180)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified  document : Proyecto de 
Tercera Revisión del Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano PRTE INEN 044 (3R) 
"Encendedores"  (Draft third revision (3R) of Ecuadorian Standardization Institute 
Technical Regulation PRTE INEN No. 044 "Lighters") (9 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content:  The notified Technical Regulation establishes the requirements 
to be met by lighters, prior to the marketing of domestic and imported products, with the 
aim of protecting human safety and preventing misleading practices.  
The notified T echnical Regulation applies to the following flame -producing products:  
1. Cigarette and cigar lighters;  
2. Pipe lighters;  
3. Utility lighters . G/TBT/N/ECU/368  
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   The notified Technical Regulation does not apply to:  
Matches;  
Other flame -producing products that are not intended solely for lighting cigarettes, cigars 
or pipes or for use as utility lighters.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Consumer information ; labelling ; prevention of misleading practices ; 
consumer pr otection ; 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 9994:2018, Lighters -- Safety specifications;  
3. ISO/IEC 17025:2017, General requirements for the competence of testing and 
calibration laboratories;  
4. ISO/IEC 17050 -1:2004, Conformity assessment - Supplier's declaration of 
conformi ty - Part 1 : General requirements;  
5. ISO/IEC 17067:2013, Conformity assessment - Fundamentals of product 
certification and guidelines for product certification schemes;  
TRACEABILITY:  
1. G/TBT/N/ECU/50  
2. G/TBT/N/ECU/50/Add.1  
3. G/TBT/N/ECU/50/Add.2  
4. G/TBT/N/ECU/50/Add.3  
5. G/TBT/N/ECU/50/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 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 and 2272  
Email: puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec ; 
puntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.com ; aramon@produccion.gob.ec ; 
cyepez@produccion.gob.ec ; jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec ; 
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