G/TBT/N/ECU/452  
28 May 2019  
(19-3678) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : ECUADOR  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2  and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  
Servicio Ecuatoriano de Normalización , INEN (Ecuadorian Standardization Service)  
Calle Baquerizo Moreno E8 -29 y Diego de Almagro  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3825960 to 90  
Website: http://www.normalizacion.gob.ec/  
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:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  (Under -Secretariat for Quality)  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca , MPCEIP (Ministry of 
Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries)  
Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso P ereira, Piso 8, Bloque 
amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 - 2272 
Email:  
puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec  
puntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.c om 
aramon@produccion.gob.ec  
cyepez@produccion.gob.ec  
jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
Website: http://www.industrias.gob.ec/   
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) : Other (HS 
392690) ; Other (HS 401590) ; Other inflatable articles (HS 401695) ; Life-jackets and life -
belts (HS 630720) ; Other (HS 630790)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Primera Revisión del Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano PRTE INEN 218 (1R) "Equipos de 
flotación individual"  (Draft first revision (1R) of Ecuadorian Technical Regulation PRTE 
INEN No. 218: "Personal flotation devices") (12 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Ecuadorian Technical Regulation establishes the 
requirements to be met by personal flotation devices (PFDs), prior to the marketing of 
domestic and imported products, with the aim of protecting human safety and preventing  
deceptive practices.  
It applies to the following products:  
•  Lifejackets for offshore vessels, performance level 275  G/TBT/N/ECU/452  
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  • Lifejackets, performance levels 150 and 100  
• Buoyancy aids (level 50)  
It does not apply to:  
• Equipment designed to be thrown into the water (life rings : floating devices 
used to assist people who have fallen into the sea)  
• Floating mattresses or life rafts  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Consumer information, labelling ; Prevention of decept ive practices and 
consumer protection ; Protection of human health or safety.  
8. Relevant documents:  
Normative references:  
1. ISO 2859 -1:1999+Amd 1:2011, Sampling procedures for inspection by 
attributes - Part 1 : Sampling schemes indexed by acceptance quality  limit (AQL) 
for lot -by-lot inspection.  
2. ISO 12402 -2:2006+Amd 1:2010, Personal flotation devices - Part 2 : 
Lifejackets, performance level 275 - Safety requirements.  
3. ISO 12402 -3:2006+Amd 1:2010, Personal flotation devices - Part 3 : 
Lifejackets, performance l evel 150 - Safety requirements.  
4. ISO 12402 -4:2006+Amd 1:2010, Personal flotation devices - Part 4 : 
Lifejackets, performance level 100 - Safety requirements.  
5. ISO 12402 -5:2006+Amd 1:2010, Personal flotation devices - Part 5 : Buoyancy 
aids (level 50) - Safety requirements.  
6. ISO 12402 -9:2006+Amd 1:2011, Personal flotation devices - Part 9 : Test 
methods.  
7. ISO/IEC 17025:2017, General requirements for the competence of testing and 
calibration laboratories.  
8. ISO/IEC 17050 -1:2004, Conformity assessment - Supplie r's declaration of 
conformity - Part 1 : General requirements.  
9. ISO/IEC 17067:2013, Conformity assessment - Fundamentals of product 
certification and guidelines for product certification schemes.  
Notification history:  
1. G/TBT/N/ECU/218  
2. G/TBT/N/ECU/218/Add.1  
9. Proposed date of adoption : 60 days from notification or thereafter  
Proposed date of entry into force : 180 days from the date of adoption  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from notification  G/TBT/N/ECU/452  
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  11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Contact and/or National Enquiry Point:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca (MPCEIP)  
Av. Amazonas entre Un ión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso Pereira, Piso 8, Bloque 
amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 - 2272 
Email:  
puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec  
puntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.com  
aramon@produccion.gob.ec  
cyepez@produccion.gob.ec  
jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
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