G/TBT/N/BRA/1161  
20 April 2021  
(21-3384) 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 [X], 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):  
Materialized length measures.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance No. 87, 11 February 2021. (13 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  The Ordinance pr ovides consolidation of the regulation for 
materialized length measures.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Product safety; Consumer protection. 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 com plexity of regulatory processes will be reduced. Harmonized 
regulations of the Common Market Group Mercosul should be internalized by the States 
in their regulatory systems, which is the case of GMC Resolution 51/1999 on materialized 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
01) Brazilian Official Gazette 31 on 17 February 2021, section 1, page 61 02) Inmetro 
Ordinance 145, 30 December 1999 03) Mercosul  Resolution GMC 51/1999 04) Decree No. 
10.139 of 28 November 2019  
https://www.in.gov.br/web/dou/ -/portaria -inmetro -n-87-de-11-de-fevereiro -de-2021-
303745572  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC000616.pdf   
https://normas.mercosur.int/simfiles/normativas/17909_RES_051 -
1999_PT_RTMMatLongitud.pdf  
http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2019 -2022/2019/decreto/D10139.htm  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 March 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 March 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:   
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislac ao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002699.pdf  
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