G/TBT/N/BRA/1288  
22 December 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   
Website: www.inmetro.gov.br/barreirastec nicas 
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):  
ELECTRICAL MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT AND PARTS THEREOF; SOUND RECORDERS 
AND REPRODUCERS, TELEVISION IMAGE AND SOUND RECORDERS AND REPRODUCERS, 
AND PARTS AND ACCESSORIES OF SUCH ARTICLES (HS 85); Road vehicle systems (ICS 
43.040)  
5. Title, number of pages a nd language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance No. 497, 13 December 2021. (8 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  Inmetro Ordinance  No. 497 consolidates technical regulation 
for low Voltage electrical devices  
7. Objective and r ationale, 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 consolidate 
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. The need to establish minimum device safety requirements 
used in low voltage ele ctrical installations up to 1 kV with rated current up to 63 A, 
focusing on fire prevention and electrical accidents. The need to regulate the 
manufacturing and import segments of electrical devices used in low voltage electrical 
installations in order to establish rules for the public knowledge, according to Presidential 
Decree No 97.280 of 16 December 1988, which standardizes nominal distribution voltages 
at 127 V and 220 V.  G/TBT/N/BRA/1288  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
1) Brazilian Official Gazette 239 on 21 December 2021, section 1, page 40.  
https://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/ -/portaria -n-497-de-13-de-dezembro -de-2021-
368975664  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  3 January 2 022 
Proposed date of entry into force:  3 January 2022  
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   
Website: www.inmetro.gov.br/barreirastecnicas  
http://sistema -sil.inmetro.gov.br/rtac/RTAC002887.pdf