G/TBT/N/BRA/1214  
14 July 2021  
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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:  National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology 
(INMETRO)  
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):  Fans (excl. 
table, floor, wall, window, ceiling or roof fans, with a self -contained electric motor of an 
output <= 125 W) (HS 841459); Ventila tors. Fans. Air -conditioners (ICS 23.120)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance N° 299, 09 July 2021 (19 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  Inmetro Ordinance No. 299 consolidates the conform ity 
assessment requirements for table, wall, pedestal and air circulator fans.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Decree 10.139 of 28 November 2019 provides for the need for revision and 
consolidation of normative acts below the decree. It aims to update and consolidate 
regulatory acts, elimination of obsolete regulations whose effects have been exhausted 
in time or the need cannot be identified. Thus, the inventories and complexity of 
regulatory processes  will be reduced.  
The need to comply with Law No. 10.295 of 17 October 2001, which establishes the 
National Policy for the Conservation and Rational Use of Energy, and Decree No. 4.059, 
of 19 December 2001.  
Update and expand the scope of the conformity for table fans, column and air 
circulators for evaluation program conformity  for table, wall, pedestal and air 
circulators; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:  1) Brazilian Official Gazette 130 on 13 July 2021, section 1, page 
38 2) Inm etro Ordinance No. 020, 18 January 2012 3) Inmetro Ordinance No. 611, 
19 December 2013.  G/TBT/N/BRA/1214  
 
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  https://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/ -/portaria -n-299-de-9-de-julho-de-2021-331562798  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC001790.pdf  
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002059.pdf  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  2 August 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  2 August 2021  
10. Final date for comments:  Not applicable  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/rtac/pdf/RTAC002799.pdf