. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ECU/36 
3 July 2008 
 (08-3200) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  ECUADOR
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Instituto Ecuatoriano de Normalización , INEN (Ecuadorian Standardization Institute) 
Baquerizo E8-29 y Almagro 
Tel.: (+593 2) 250-1885 
Fax: (+593 2) 256-7815 E-mail: furresta@inen.gov.ec 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and E-mail 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 Comercio e Inversiones  (Under-Secretariat for Trade and Investment) 
Ministerio de Industrias y Competitividad  (Ministry of Industry and Competitiveness) 
Av. Amazonas y Av. Eloy Alfaro Quito, Ecuador Tel.: (+593 2) 256-6041, ext. 162 
Fax: (+593 2) 250-4922 
E-mail: abarbosa@mic.gov.ec;  mepoveda@mic.gov.ec Web site: www.mic.gov.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 applic able, otherwise national tariff heading.  
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   HS tariff subheadings 
8702.10.00, 8706.00.00, 8707.90.00 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Reglamento Técnico 
Ecuatoriano Obligatorio y Emergente RTE IN EN 038 para “Bus Urbano”, de fabricación 
nacional, ensamblados o importados que se comercialicen en la República del Ecuador  
(Mandatory Emergency Technical Regulation of the Ecuadorian Standardization Institute RTE INEN 038 on Domestically produced or assembled or imported urban buses, marketed in 
the Republic of Ecuador) (21 pages, in Spanish). G/TBT/N/ECU/36 
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  6. Description of content:   The notified Emergency Techni cal Regulation on domestically 
produced or assembled or imported urban buses,  marketed in the Republic of Ecuador, 
covers the following:  Purpose, Scope, Defi nitions, Requirements, Conformity assessment 
tests, Standards and regulations consulted,  Demonstration of compliance, Conformity 
assessment and certification bodies, Inspection and/or supervisory authority, Type of 
inspection and/or monitoring, Penalty regi me, Liability of conformity assessment bodies, 
and Review and updating. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
The notified Ecuadorian Technical Regulation establishes the requirements to be met by 
buses for mass urban passenger transport with a view to protecting human life and safety, the environment and property and preven ting deceptive practices likely to mislead 
manufacturers and users of buses for urban transport. 
8. Relevant documents:  
1. Publication where notice appears:   Available at http://www.mic.gov.ec, 
http://www.inen.gov.ec; 
2. Emergency Technical Regulation of the Ecuadorian Standardization Institute RTE 
INEN 038:  on Urban buses; 
3. Publication in which Emergency Te chnical Regulation will be published:  Registro 
Oficial  (Official Journal) No. ... of ... . 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Immediately 
Period of validity of 120 days as of 
publication in the Official Journal 
10. Final date for comments:   – 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X ], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and E-mail and Website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Contact and/or National Enquiry Point: 
Subsecretaria de Comercio e Inversiones 
Ministerio de Industrias y Competitividad 
Av. Amazonas y Av. Eloy Alfaro 
Quito, Ecuador Tel.: (+593 2) 256-6041, ext. 161 Fax: (+593 2) 250-4922 E-mail: abarbosa@mic.gov.ec; mepoveda@mic.gov.ec 
Web site: www.mic.gov.ec 
 Regulatory Agency: 
Instituto Ecuatoriano de  Normalización, INEN 
Baquerizo E8-29 y Almagro Quito, Ecuador 
Tel.: (+593 2) 250-1885 
Fax: (+593 2) 256-7815 E-mail: furresta@inen.gov.ec