G/TBT/N/ECU/408  
3 May 2019 
(19-3068) Page: 1/4 
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 government involved (Articles 3.2  and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  
Servicio Ecuatoriano de Normalización , INEN (Ecuadorian Standardization Service)  
Calle Baquerizo Moreno E8 -29 y Diego de Almagro  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3825960 to 90  
Website: www.normalizacion.gob.ec  
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:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  (Under -Secretariat for Quality)  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca , MPCEIP (Ministry of 
Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries)  
Address : Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 - 2272 
Email:  
puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec  
puntocontactoOT CECU@gmail.com  
aramon@produccion.gob.ec  
cyepez@produccion.gob.ec  
jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
Website: 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) : 950300 : 
Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys ; dolls' carriages ; dolls; other toys ; 
reduced -size ("scale") models and similar recreational models, working or not ; puzzles of 
all kinds.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Primera Revisión del Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano PRTE INEN 089 (1R) "Seguridad de 
los juguetes"  (Draft first revision (1R) of Ecuadorian Technical Regulation PRTE INEN No. 
089 "Toy safety") (12 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Ecuadorian Technical Regulation establishes the 
requirements to be met by toys, prior to the marketing of domestic and imported 
products, with the aim of protecting human health and s afety and preventing deceptive 
practices.  G/TBT/N/ECU/408  
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  It applies to the following products : toys intended for use by children under 14 years of 
age. 
It does not apply to:  
• Home and public playground equipment  
• Automatic playing machines, whether coin -operated or not, in tended for public 
use 
• Toy vehicles equipped with combustion engines  
• Toy steam engines  
• Slings and catapults  
• Decorative objects for festivities and celebrations  
• Products for collectors, provided that the product or its packaging bears a visible 
and legible indication that it is intended for collectors of 14 years of age and above  
• Sports equipment including roller skates, inline skates, and skateboards intended 
for children with a body mass of more than 20 kg  
• Bicycles with a maximum saddle height of more than  435 mm, measured as the 
vertical distance from the ground to the top of the seat surface, with the seat in 
a horizontal position and with the seat pillar set to the minimum insertion mark  
• Scooters and other means of transport designed for sport or which a re intended 
to be used for travel on public roads or public pathways  
• Electrically driven vehicles which are intended to be used for travel on public 
roads, public pathways, or the pavement thereof  
• Aquatic equipment intended to be used in deep water, and sw imming learning 
devices for children, such as swim seats and swimming aids  
• Puzzles with more than 500 pieces  
• Guns and pistols using compressed gas, with the exception of water guns and 
water pistols  
• Bows for archery over 120 cm long  
• Fireworks, including pe rcussion caps which are not specifically designed for toys  
• Products and games using sharp -pointed missiles, such as sets of darts with 
metallic points  
• Functional educational products, such as electric ovens, irons or other functional 
products operated at a  nominal voltage exceeding 24 V which are sold exclusively 
for teaching purposes under adult supervision  
• Products intended for use for educational purposes in schools and other 
pedagogical contexts under the surveillance of an adult instructor, such as sci ence 
equipment  
• Electronic equipment, such as personal computers and game consoles, used to 
access interactive software and their associated peripherals, unless the electronic 
equipment or the associated peripherals are specifically designed for and targete d 
at children and have a play value on their own, such as specially designed 
personal computers, key boards, joy sticks or steering wheels  
• Interactive software, intended for leisure and entertainment, such as computer 
games, and their storage media, such a s CDs  
• Babies' soothers  
• Child-appealing luminaires  
• Electrical transformers for toys  
• Fashion accessories for children which are not for use in play  G/TBT/N/ECU/408  
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  • Personal protective equipment, including flotation aids such as arm bands and 
swim seats, and swimming goggles, sunglasses and other eye protectors as well 
as bicycle and skateboard helmets  
• Sporting goods and equipment, camping goods, athletic equipment, musical 
instruments and furniture ; however, toys which are their counterparts are 
included  
• Toys installe d in public places (e.g. arcades and shopping centres)  
• Fashion jewellery for children  
• This Ecuadorian Technical Regulation does not cover electrical safety aspects of 
toys. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Consumer information, labelling ; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection ; Protection of human health or safety.  
8. Relevant documents:  
Normative references:  
1. ISO 2859 -1:1999+Amd 1:2011, Sampling procedures for inspection by at tributes 
- Part 1 : Sampling schemes indexed by acceptance quality limit (AQL) for lot -by-
lot inspection.  
2. ISO 8124 -1:2018, Safety of toys - Part 1 : Safety aspects related to mechanical 
and physical properties.  
3. ISO 8124 -2:2014, Safety of toys - Part 2 : Flamm ability.  
4. ISO 8124 -3:2010+Amd 2:2018, Safety of toys - Part 3 : Migration of certain 
elements . 
5. ISO/IEC 17025:2017, General requirements for the competence of testing and 
calibration laboratories . 
6. ISO/IEC 17050 -1:2004, Conformity assessment - Supplier's declaration of 
conformity - Part 1 : General requirements . 
7. ISO/IEC 17067:2013, Conformity assessment - Fundamentals of product 
certification and guidelines for product certification schemes.  
8. EN 71 -1:2014, Safety of toys - Part 1 : Mechanical and physical properties.  
9. EN 71 -2:2011+A1:2014, Safety of toys . Flammability.  
10. EN 71 -3:2013+A3:2018, Safety of toys - Part 3 : Migration of certain elements.  
11. EN 71 -4:2013, Safety of toys . Experimental sets for chemistry and related 
activities.  
12. EN 71 -5:2015, Safety of toys - Part 5 : Chemical toys (sets) other than 
experimental sets.  
Notification history:  
1. G/TBT/N/ECU/108  
2. G/TBT/N/ECU/108/Add.1  
3. G/TBT/N/ECU/108/Add.2  
4. G/TBT/N/ECU/108/Add.3  
5. G/TBT/N/ECU/108/Add.4  
9. Proposed date of adoption : 60 days from notification or thereafter  
Proposed date of entry into force : 180 days from the date of adoption  G/TBT/N/ECU/408  
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  10. Final date for comments : 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Contact and/or National Enquiry Point:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  (Under -Secretariat for Quality)  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca , MPCEIP (Ministry of 
Production, Foreign Tr ade, Investment and Fisheries)  
Address : Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 - 2272 
Email:  
puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec  
puntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.com  
aramon@produccion.gob.ec  
cyepez@producc ion.gob.ec  
jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
www.normalizacion.gob.ec  
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