G/TBT/N/BRA/1220  
30 July 2021  
(21-5986) Page: 1/3 
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 Telecommunications Agency - ANATEL  
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):  
ELECTRICAL MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT AND PARTS THEREOF; SOUND RECORDERS 
AND REPRODUCERS, TELEVISION IMAGE AND SOUND RECORDERS AND REPRODUCERS, 
AND PARTS AND ACCESSORIES OF SUCH ARTICLES (HS 85); TELECOMMUNICATIONS. 
AUDIO AND VIDE O ENGINEERING (ICS 33)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Public 
Consultation 38, 26 July 2021. (1 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  Public Consultation to update the requirements for technical 
conformity  assessment of terminal access station  
The text of Public Consultation can be downloaded only in Portuguese at: 
https://sei.anatel.gov.br/sei/modulos/pesquisa/md_pesq_documento_consulta_externa.
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Comments can be made at: 
https://sistemas.anatel.gov.br/SACP/Contribuicoes/ListaConsultasContribuicoes.asp?Tip
o=1&Opcao=andamento&SISQSmodulo=144 2 
Selecting Public consultation No 38/2021  G/TBT/N/BRA/1220  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Wireless communications have been more relevant to each generation of 
technologies. Advances in wireless telecommunications cu rrently allow access to 
information in various locations, boosting economic activities, making work and education 
processes more flexible, and facilitating communication between people. In Brazil there 
are currently about 242 million mobile access subscrip tions. With the increase in new 
technologies, services and equipment offered to consumers, the number of devices 
connected to the network tends to grow. The implementation of fifth generation (5G) 
mobile networks with minimum requirements for quality, secu rity and interoperability is 
essential to meet this growing demand, as they have the capacity to absorb millions of 
devices operating at high data transmission rates (theoretically tens of times higher than 
4G networks) and with low latency (theoretically tens of times lower than 4G network). 
These characteristics make 5G networks an important vector of social and economic 
transformation, as they facilitate accessibility, expand coverage areas and allow the 
dissemination of services that are currently not v iable in fourth generation (4G) or lower 
networks, such as: industry 4.0, intelligent transport systems (ITS) and smart cities. 5G 
FR2 networks allow the operation of equipment with wider transmission bands, up to 400 
MHz, for use in applications that requ ire high data transmission rates, such as: virtual 
reality, augmented reality, fixed broadband wireless accesses, 4K video transmission, etc. 
Since the current requirements for ETA conformity assessment cover only equipment 
operating in FR1, it is necessar y to conduct a Public Consultation containing proposal to 
update the requirements in order to include the test parameters for equipment operating 
in millimeter waves (FR2). Considering that each release of 3GPP standards new 
functionalities are implemented  to 5G networks and the requirements and testing 
procedures are improved, it is also proposed to update the version of the normative 
references of the requirements for the latest version of release 16 of the 3GPP standards. 
The adoption of the latest versi on of such standards will also allow the inclusion of 
important certification tests for the evaluation of equipment operating in FR1 that was 
not included in the previously published requirements, as such tests were still incomplete 
in the description of v ersion 16.3.0 of the 3GPP standard.; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
01) Brazilian Official Gazette 140, on 27 July 2021, section 1, page 12 02) SEI process 
number 53500.016402/2021 -94 3) Informe No.22/2021/ORCN/SOR 4) Act No. 3.151, 12 
June 2020  
https://www.in.gov.br/web/dou/ -/consulta -publica -n-38-de-26-de-julho-de-2021-
334570254  
https://sei.anatel.gov.br/sei/modulos/ pesquisa/md_pesq_processo_exibir.php?exIsiWoP
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https://sei.anatel.gov.br/sei/modulos/pesquisa/md_pesq_documento_consulta_externa.
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https://sei.anatel.gov.br/sei/modulos/pesquisa/md_pesq_documento_consulta_externa.
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9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be defined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be defined  
10. Final date for comments:  24 September 2021  G/TBT/N/BRA/1220  
 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
National Telecommunications Agency – ANATEL  
Telephone: +(55) 61 2312.2318  
Telefax: +(55) 61 2312.2949  
Email: certificacao@anatel.gov.br  
 
Comments should be sent to the Brazilian TBT Enquiry Point 
(barreirastecnicas@inmetro.gov.br ) and copied to certificacao@anatel.gov.br  
https://sistemas.anatel.gov.br/SACP/Contribuicoes/TextoConsulta.asp?Co dProcesso=C2
451&Tipo=1&Opcao=andamento