G/TBT/N/BRA/1441  
25 August 2022  
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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:   
Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA)  
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  
Telefax: +(55) 21 2563.5637  
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 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Ethers, 
ether-alcohols, ether -phenols, ether -alcohol -phenols, alcohol peroxides, ether peroxides, 
ketone peroxides (whether or not chemically defined), and their halogenated, 
sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives. (HS  code(s): 2909)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft resolution 
number 1109, 18 August 2022;; (3 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Resolution is regarded to an extraordinary and 
temporary a uthorization of the free sale and donation of ethyl alcohol at a concentration 
of 70% p/p (seventy percent, expressed in weight by weight), in liquid physical form, 
duly regularized at Anvisa, due to the emergence of public health of international 
importan ce arising from the Monkeypox outbreak.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  According to the World Health Organization (WHO), access to and use of 
alcohol -based sanitizers are effective preventive measures to reduce the transmission of 
Monkeypox . Thus, there is a need for rapid action to reinforce the availability of supplies 
for the prevention and treatment of the disease, with an urgent need to establish specific 
and temporary rules to  guarantee access to non -pharmacological measures aimed at 
combating the virus in Brazil, such as alcohol 70%, similar to the measure adopted during 
the COVID -19 pandemic.; Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:   
- G/TBT/N/BRA/1441  
 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  13 September 2022  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa)  
SIA, Trecho 5, Área Especial 57  
Brasília – DF / Brazil  
CEP: 71.205 -050 
Phone.: +(55) 61 3462.5402  
Website: www. anvisa.gov.br  
The final text is available only in Portuguese and can be downloaded at:  
Draft: 
http://antigo.anvisa.gov.br/documents/10181/6478721/consulta_publica_1109_2022+
GHCOS.pdf/79272bdd -5777-4781-b860-ffe073343383  Comment form: 
https://pesquisa.anvisa.gov.br/index.php/124466?newtest=Y&lang=pt -BR