G/TBT/N/BRA/1106  
22 December 2020  
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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:  Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA)  
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  
Telefax: +(55) 21 2563.5637  
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):  Organic 
surface -active agents (excl. soap); surface -active preparations, washing preparations, 
incl. auxiliary washing preparations, and clean ing preparations, whether or not containing 
soap (excl. those of heading 3401) (HS 3402); Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, 
herbicides, anti -sprouting products and plant -growth regulators, disinfectants and similar 
products, put up for retail sale or  as preparations or articles, e.g. sulphur -treated bands, 
wicks and candles, and fly -papers (HS 3808)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Resolution 
number 970, 7 December 2020. Language(s): Portuguese. Comment form: 
http://formsus.datasus.gov.br/site/formulario.php?id_aplicacao=60785 (18 page(s), in 
Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  This draft resolution establishes the procedures and technical 
requirements for the registry of furniture paint with sanitizing act ion.   
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Since 2011, after the identification of paints touting sanitising action in the 
market without proper proof, ANVISA sanitizing area began to receive requests for 
authorization of paints and other products that initially do not have this purpose, but that 
incorporated ingredients in the formulation that characterize them as sanitizing. Thus, it 
became necessary to request authorization from the Agency to inform cons umers that 
the products, in addition to the purpose for which they are already known, also have a 
sanitising action such as antibacterial, antifungal, repellent, insecticide. In view of the 
increasing number of requests for authorization to market paints w ith sanitising action, 
the lack of its own rules, which generates legal uncertainty due to the adaptation of the 
situation to product standards with similar action, as well as the lawsuits perpetrated 
against ANVISA, it becomes imperative and urgent framin g of paints and other products 
with disinfectant/disinfectant action, as sanitising products subject to registration, in G/TBT/N/BRA/1106  
 
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  accordance with law 6.360/1976. Thus, the aim is to regularize these products on the 
market, ensure their efficacy and safety, and, at the same time, contribute with greater 
legal certainty.; Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:   
1) Brazilian Official Gazette 235 on 09 December 2020, section 1, page 374; 2) Impact 
Report 3) Resolution draft  
https://www.in.gov.br/web/dou/ -/consulta -publica -n-970-de-7-de-dezembro -de-2020-
293179534  
http://antigo.anvisa.gov.br/documents/10181/6149455/Relat%C3%B3rio+de+mapeam
ento+de+impacto+ -+REMAI.pdf/9371a10c -49a1-4b74-aac9-d91303216215   
http://antigo.anvisa.gov.br/documents/10181/6149455/CONSULTA+P%C3%9ABLICA+
N+970+COSAN+GHCOS.pdf/0a6eba23 -3be6-4707-a8f6-f250d0114f1b  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined after the end of the consultation period.  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined after the end of the consultation 
period.  
10. Final date for comments:  15 February 2021  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa)  
SIA, Trecho 5, Área Especial 57  
Brasília – DF / Brazil  
CEP: 71.205 -050 
Phone.: +(55) 61 3462.5402  
Website: www.anvisa.gov.br  
http://antigo.anvisa.gov.br/documents/10181/6149455/CONSULTA+P%C3%9ABLICA+
N+970+COSAN+GHCOS.pdf/0a6eba23 -3be6-4707-a8f6-f250d0114f1b