G/TBT/N/BRA/1044  
23 July 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:   
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  
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)  
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):  
HS: 85015110 - Squirrel cage induction motor, three -phase type  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance no. 200, 03 June 2020. (6 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Descript ion of content:  This Inmetro Ordinance approves the partial improvement of the 
Conformity Assessment Procedures (RAC) for three -phase induction electric motors with 
squirrel cage rotor.  
As established in Interministerial Ordinance no. 1, 29 June 2017, the three -phase induction 
electric motors with squirrel cage rotor must be manufactured, imported, marketed and 
refurbished for sale only in accordance with the new minimum levels of energy efficiency 
and within the deadlines that were fixed by it.  
Driving machines having as motor components still with the minimum levels of energy 
efficiency prior to the regulations mentioned in the caput, may be manufactured and 
imported by 1 March 2021 and marketed to the market by 30 August 2021, provided that 
those engines have been manufactured before the expiry of the Interministerial Ordinance 
no. 1, of 2017, and have been registered with Inmetro.  
The provisions contained in Ordinance Inmetro n° 488, of 2010, and the Requirements 
approved by it are maintained.  G/TBT/N/BRA/1044  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer protection; Performance requirements  
The need to meet Interministerial Ordinance No. 1 of 29 June 2017, signed by the Brazilian 
Ministers of State for Mines an d Energy (MME); Science, Technology, Innovations and 
Communications (MCTIC) and Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC), which 
approves the Program of Targets for Three -Phase Electric Motors Rotor Squirrel Cage, as 
provided in art. 2, §2, of Law No. 10 ,295 of 17 October 2001.  
Following the recommendation of the Premium Motor Regulation Impact Study, Contained 
in the Technical Report PFP - 014/2015, coordinated by the Technical Committee of Electric 
Motors of the Energy Efficiency Indicators Management Committee (CGIEE), establishes 
new minimum nominal yields for electric motors induction three -phase squirrel cage rotor, 
as well as expands the scope of objects subject to regulation, extending it to fractional and 
power motors up to 370 kW.  
The publicati on of Brazilian technical standards ABNT NBR  17094 -1:2018 (Spinning Electric 
Machines. Part 1: Three -phase induction motors - Requirements) and 17094 -3:2018 
(Rotating Electric Machines. Part 3: Three -phase induction motors - Test methods);  
The need to pro mote Conformity Assessment Regulation alignment for three -phase electric 
induction motors rotor squirrel cage to updates of laws and related technical standards; 
Inmetro's interactions with stakeholders since the beginning of 2018, involving 
government rep resentatives, industry and laboratories, with the objective of making the 
necessary improvements to the RAC for Three -phase Electric Induction Engines Rotor 
Squirrel Cage; Other  
8. Relevant documents:  1) Brazilian Official Gazette 132, on 13 July 2020, section 1, 
page 22; 2) Presidential Decree no. 4,508, 11 December 2002; Law No. 10.295, 
17 October 2001; Decree nº 9,864, 27 June 2019; Inmetro Ordinance no. 488, 
8 December 2010; Interministerial Ordinance no. 1, 29 June 2017; Inmetro Ordinance 
no. 248, 20 May 2019; ABNT NBR 17094 -1:2018; ABNT NBR 17094 -3:2018; 3) Brazilian 
Official Gazette; 4) Not stated  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  On the date of its publication in the Brazilian Official Gazette  
Proposed date of entry into force:  On the date of its publication in the Brazilian Official 
Gazette  
10. Final date for comments:  Not applicable  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002654.pdf