G/TBT/N/ECU/200  
28 February 2014  
(14-1226)  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 governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  
Instituto Ecuatoriano de Normalización, INEN (Ecuadorian Standardization Institute) 
Calle Baquerizo Moreno E8-29 y Diego de Almagro Tel.: (+593) 2 250-1885 Fax: (+593) 2 256-7815 
Email: puntocontactoOTCECU@mipro.gob.ec  
Website: http://www.inen.gob.ec/  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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 la Calidad  (Under-Secretariat for Quality) 
Ministerio de Industrias y Productividad , MIPRO (Ministry of Industry and Productivity) 
Yánez Pinzón N26-12, entre Av. Colón y La Niña Quito, Ecuador Tel.: (+593) 2 394-8760, Ext. 2358 
Email: aanrango@mipro.gob.ec ; mmartinez@mipro.gob.ec ; 
puntocontactoOTCECU@mipro.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): 
7318.15.10 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document: Proyecto de 
PRTE INEN 178 "Pernos de anclaje expandibles para concreto"  (Draft Technical Regulation 
of the Ecuadorian Standardization Institute (PRTE INEN) No. 178: "Expandable anchor bolts for concrete") (6 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content: The notified draft Technical Regulation covers the following: 
Purpose; Scope; Definitions; Designation; Product requirements; Labelling requirements; 
Sampling; Conformity assessment tests; Reference documents; Conformity assessment 
procedure; Monitoring and inspection authority; Penalty regime; Liability of conformity assessment bodies; and Review and updating. G/TBT/N/ECU/200 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: The notified Technical Regulation establishes the requirements to be met by 
expandable anchor bolts for concrete. 
It applies to the following domestically manufactured and imported products marketed in 
Ecuador: 
Torque-controlled expansion anchors  
Shell-type expansion anchors with one or more cones; 
Bolt-type expansion anchors with one or more cones; 
A combination of the above two types. 
Deformation-controlled expansion anchors  
Cone-type anchors; 
Rod-type anchors (stud anchors); 
Sleeve-type anchors; Sleeve-type anchors (stud version). 
The notified Technical Regulation applies to metal anchors placed into drilled holes in 
concrete and anchored by forced expansion, in which all the metal parts directly anchored in the concrete and designed to transmit the applied loads are made of carbon steel, 
stainless steel or malleable cast iron. The anchors may include non-load bearing 
materials, e.g. plastic parts, for rotation prevention. 
The text applies to anchors with a minimum thread size of 6 mm (M6). In general, the 
minimum anchorage depth min h
ef shall be 40 mm. In special cases, e.g. in anchoring 
structural components which are statically indeterminate (such as light-weight suspended 
ceilings) and subject to internal exposure conditions only, min h ef may be reduced to 30 
mm. 
Anchors with internal thread are covered only if they have a thread length of at least d + 
5 mm after taking account of possible tolerances. 
This Technical Regulation covers applications where the concrete members in which the 
anchors are embedded are subject to static or quasi-static actions as well as to seismic 
actions.  
8. Relevant documents:  
1. Publication where notice appears:  http://www.industrias.gob.ec/, 
 http://www.inen.gob.ec/ ; 
2. Proposal and basic document: Proyecto de PRTE INEN 178 "Pernos de anclaje 
expandibles para concreto"  (Draft Technical Regulation of the Ecuadorian 
Standardization Institute (PRTE INEN) No. 178: "Expandable anchor bolts for concrete"); 
3. Publication in which Technical Regulati on will be published when adopted: Registro 
Oficial  (Official Journal).  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
 
Proposed date of entry into force:   90 days from 18 February 2014. 
Six months after adoption.  
10. Final date for comments: 19 May 2014 G/TBT/N/ECU/200 
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  11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresse s, if available, of other body: Contact 
and/or National Enquiry Point: 
Subsecretaría de la Calidad 
Ministerio de Industrias y Productividad, MIPRO Yánez Pinzón N26-12, entre Av. Colón y La Niña 
Quito, Ecuador 
Tel.: (+593) 2 394-8760, Ext. 2358 or 2253 Email: aanrango@mipro.gob.ec ; mmartinez@mipro.gob.ec ; 
puntocontactoOTCECU@mipro.gob.ec  
Website: http://www.industrias.gob.ec/