G/TBT/N/BRA/1218  
29 July 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):  Pumps for 
liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device (excl. ceramic pumps and secretion 
aspirating pumps for medical use and medical pumps carried on or implanted in the body); 
liquid elevators (excl.  pumps); parts thereof (HS 8413); Pumps (ICS 23.080)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance N° 319, 23 July 2021. (10 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  Inmetro Ordinance No. 319 consolidates  the conformity 
assessment requirements for centrifugal pumps  
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 be low 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 define the minimum energy efficiency levels of 
three -phase electric motors induction rotor squirrel cage, nationally manufacturing or 
imported, for commercialization or use in Brazil. Need to establish minimum performance 
and safety requiremen ts for all pumps and centrifugal pumps; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
1) Brazilian Official Gazette 139 on 26 July 2021, section 1, page 106 2) Inmetro 
Ordinance No. 455, 01 December 2010  
https://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/ -/portaria-n-319-de-23-de-julho-de-2021-
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  http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC001633.pdf  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  2 August 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  2 August 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/RTAC002808.pdf