G/TBT/N/ECU/175  
17 February 2014  
(14-0964)  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 2501885 Fax: (+593) 2 2567815 
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 3948760, 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 where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided  in addition, where applicable): 
7113.11.00, 7113.19.00, 7113.20.00, 7114.11.10, 7114.11.90, 7114.19.00, 7114.20.00, 
7117.11.00, 7117.19.00, and 7117.90.00. 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  Reglamento 
Técnico Ecuatoriano Emergente RTE INEN 126 "Joyas y Bisutería"  (Emergency Technical 
Regulation of the Ecuadorian Standardizatio n Institute (RTE INEN) No. 126, "Jewellery, 
including imitation jewellery") (16 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content:  The notified Technical Regulation  covers the following: Purpose; 
Scope; Definitions; General conditions; Product requirements; Labelling requirements; 
Sampling; Conformity assessment tests; Reference standards; Conformity assessment procedure; Monitoring and inspection authority; Penalty regime; and Liability of 
conformity assessment bodies. G/TBT/N/ECU/175 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  The notified Technical Regulation applies to the following domestically 
manufactured and imported products marketed in Ecuador: 
- Gold, silver and alloys thereof which are present in items coated in precious 
metals, non-precious metals and solders. 
- Jewellery made of precious metals and alloys thereof, including: 
a. Small objects of personal adornmen t (for example, rings, bracelets, 
necklaces, brooches, earrings, watch- chains, fobs, pendants, tie-pins, cuff-
links, dress-studs, and religious or other medals). 
b. Articles of personal use of a kind normally carried in the pocket, in the 
handbag or on the person (for example, cigar or cigarette cases, snuff boxes, cachou or pill boxes, powder boxes, chain purses, and prayer beads). 
These articles may be combined or set, for example, with natural or cultured pearls, 
precious or semiprecious stones, synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones, tortoise shell, mother-of-pearl, ivory, natural or reconstituted amber, jet or coral. 
- Jewellery with a gold covering (metal clad with precious metal), including: 
a. Material made with a base of metal upon one or more surfaces of which 
there is affixed by soldering, brazing, welding, hot-rolling or similar mechanical means a covering of precious metal.  Except where the context 
otherwise requires, the expression also covers base metal inlaid with 
precious metal. 
Imitation jewellery, including: 
a. Articles of jewellery within the meaning of section 2.1.2 of the notified text, 
but not incorporating natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed) nor (except as plating or as minor constituents) precious metal or metal clad with precious metal. 
The notified Technical Regulation does not apply to the following products: pens, lighters, 
glasses and the metallic parts thereof, components and parts for jewellery items, antiques (items over 100 years old), and coin that is or has been legal tender. 
It does not cover precious metals of the platinum group, such as iridium, osmium, 
palladium, rhodium and ruthenium, even if used in alloys or coverings for objects of precious metal. 
Iridium, however, will be considered equivale nt to platinum when the proportion thereof 
does not exceed five thousandths in platinum  alloys (legally established proportion).  
8. Relevant documents:  
1. Publication where notice appear s: http://www.industrias.gob.ec, 
 http://www.inen.gob.ec ; 
2. Proposal and basic document: Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano Emergente RTE 
INEN 126 "Joyas y Bisutería"  (Emergency Technical Regulation of the Ecuadorian 
Standardization Institute (RTE INEN) No. 126, "Jewellery, including imitation jewellery"); 
3. Publication in which Technical Regulation will be published when adopted: 
Suplemento del Registro Oficial No. 171 (28-01-2014) (Supplement to Official 
Journal No. 171 of 28 January 2014)  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   28 January 2014 
In force. 
10. Final date for comments:  Not applicable. G/TBT/N/ECU/175 
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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 3948760, Ext. 2358 or 2253 Email: aanrango@mipro.gob.ec ; mmartinez@mipro.gob.ec ; 
PuntocontactoOTCECU@mipro.gob.ec  
Website: http://www.industrias.gob.ec/