G/TBT/N/ECU/156  
3 February 2014  
(14-0576)  Page: 1/2  
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 Quito, Ecuador 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 or 2253 
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 [ ], 2.10.1 [X], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN wher e applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provid ed in addition, where applicable):  
HS tariff subheadings 8419.11.00 and 8419.19.10 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  Reglamento 
Técnico Ecuatoriano Emergente RTE INEN 109 "Eficiencia Térmica de Calentadores de Agua a Gas" (Emergency Technical Regulation of the Ecuadorian Standardization Institute 
(RTE INEN) No. 109: "Thermal efficiency of gas water heaters") (21 pages, in Spanish).  
6. Description of content:  The notified Technical Regulation covers the following: Purpose; 
Scope; Definitions; Symbols and abbreviations; Classification; Requirements; Sampling; 
Test methods; Labelling requirements; Regulatory documents consulted or serving as references; Conformity assessment procedure; Monitoring and inspection authority; 
Penalty regime; and Liability of conformity assessment bodies.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  The notified Technical Regulation applies to domestically produced 
or imported liquefied petroleum gas- or natural gas-fired storage or instantaneous water heaters with a thermal load not exceeding 28 kW that are marketed in Ecuador.  G/TBT/N/ECU/156 
- 2 - 
  8. Relevant documents:  
1. Publication where notice appears: http://www.industrias.gob.ec  and 
http://www.inen.gob.ec ; 
2. Proposal and basic document: RTE INEN EMERGENTE 109 "Eficiencia Térmica 
de Calentadores de Agua a Gas" (Emergency Technical Regulation of the Ecuadorian 
Standardization Institute (RTE INEN) No. 109: "Thermal efficiency of gas 
water heaters"); 
3. Publication in which Technical Regulati on will be published when adopted: Suplemento 
del Registro Oficial No. 163 (16-01-2014) (Supplement to Official Journal No. 163 
(16 January 2014)).  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   16 January 2014 In force  
10. Final date for comments:  -  
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 point 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