G/TBT/N/BRA/1185  
28 May 2021  
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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:  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 [   ], 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):  Solid load 
intended for assembly on motor vehicle, semi -trailer and trailer.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance No. 235, 21 May 2021 (8 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  Inmetro Ordinance No. 235 approves the consolidated 
Metrological Technical Regulation for solid load bodywork, which establishes the minimum 
conditions of bodywork for solid load intended for assembly on motor vehicle, semi -trailer 
and trailer.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  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 consoli date 
regulatory acts, elimination of obsolete regulations whose effects have been exhausted in 
time or the need cannot be identified. Thus, the inventories and complexity of regulatory 
processes will be reduced. Bodywork used for measuring and transporting  solid loads 
must meet certain technical, construction and metrological requirements in order to 
ensure the credibility of measurement results. The need to update the existing 
metrological legislation in the light of the emergence of new body models for so lid load 
and the need to standardize nominal capacity calculations, in function of the emergence 
of bodywork for solid load with different geometric shapes; Other  G/TBT/N/BRA/1185  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:  1) Brazilian Official Gazette 97 on 25 May 2021, section 1, 
page 120; 2) Inmetro Ordinance No. 235, 21 may 2021; 3) Inmetro Ordinance No. 70, 
15 February 2016.  
https://www.in.gov.br/web/dou/ -/portaria -n-235-de-21-de-maio-de-2021-321800290  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002771.pdf  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/l egislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002386.pdf  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 July 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 July 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:   
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  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislac ao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002771.pdf