G/TBT/N/BRA/1172  
3 May 2021  
(21-3729) 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):  HS code: 
9027 Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis; Instruments and 
apparatus for physical or chemical analysis, e.g. polarimeters, refractometers, 
spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparat us; instruments and apparatus for 
measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like; 
instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light, 
incl. exposure meters; microtomes (HS 9027)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance No. 188, 27 April 2021. (7 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  Consolidated Metrological Technical Regulation for in -line gas 
chromatographs.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  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 regulator y 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. Considering the conditions laid down 
by Joint Resolution A NP/Inmetro No. 01 of 10 June 2013, which establishes the technical, 
constructive, metrological conditions and requirements measurement systems of oil and 
natural gas should be observed, with a view to ensuring the credibility of the 
measurement results.; P revention of deceptive practices and consumer protection  G/TBT/N/BRA/1172  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
01) Brazilian Official Gazette 79 on 29 April 2021, section 1, page 78; 02) Ordinance 188, 
27 April 2021  
https://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/ -/portaria -inmetro -n-188-de-27-de-abril-de-2021-
316983600  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002750.pdf  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 June 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 June 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/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002750.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