./.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/10.7/N/40
12 December 2002
(02-6886)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
AGREEMENT REACHED BY A MEMBER WITH ANOTHER COUNTRY OR COUNTRIES
ON ISSUES RELATED TO TECHNICAL REGULATIONS, STANDARDS
OR CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES
Notification
Under Article 10.7 of the Agreement "Whenever a Member has reached an agreement with
any other country or countries on issues related to technical regulations, standards or conformity
assessment procedures which may have a significant effect on trade, at least one Member party to the
agreement shall notify other Members through the Secretariat of the products to be covered by the
agreement and include a brief description of the agreement."  The following notification underArticle  10.7 has been received.
1. Member notifying:  BRAZIL
2. Title of the bilateral or plurilateral Agreement:  Mutual Recognition Arrangement in the
Field of Quality Management Systems
3. Parties to the Agreement:  Organismo Argentino de Acreditacion - OAA (Argentina);
Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand - JAS-ANZ (Australia and New
Zealand); Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour - BMWA (Austria);
BELCERT (Belgium); National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial
Quality - INMETRO (Brazil); Standards Council of Canada - SCC (Canada);  ChinaNational Accreditation Board for Certifiers – CNAB (China);  Czech Accreditation Institute
– CAI (Czech Republic);  Danish Accreditation - DANAK (Denmark);  National
Accreditation Association of DPR of Korea  - NAA (DPR of Korea);  The Finnish
Accreditation Service - FINAS (Finland);  Comité Francais d'Accreditation - COFRAC
(France);  German Accreditation Council - DAR (Germany);  Hong Kong AccreditationService -HKAS (Hong Kong, China);  National Accreditation Board for Certification
Bodies - NABCB (India);  Accreditiation B ody of Indonesia - KAN-BSN (Indonesia);  The
Irish National Accreditation Board - NAB (Ireland); Sistema Nazionale per
l’Accreditamento degli Organsimi di Certificazione - SINCERT (Italy); The Japan
Accreditation Board for Conformity Assessment - JAB (Japan); Japan Accreditation System
for Product Certification Bodies of JIS Mark  - JASC (Japan);  Department of Standards
Malaysia - DSM (Malaysia); Mauritius Accreditation Service - MAURITAS (Mauritius);
Mexican Accreditation Entity - EMA (Mexico);  Dutch Accreditation Council - RVA
(Netherlands);  Norwegian Accreditation - NA (Norway);  Bureau of Product Standards –
BPS (Philippines);  Polish Centre for Accreditation - PCA (Poland);  Korea Accreditation
System – KAS (Korea);  Korea Accreditation Board – KAB (Korea);  Romanian
Accreditation Association - RENAR (Romania );  Singapore Accreditation Council - SAC
(Singapore);  Slovak National Accreditation Service - SNAS (Slovakia);  Slovenska
Akreditacija - SA (Slovenia);  South African National Accreditation System - SANAS(South Africa);G/TBT/10.7/N/40
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Entidad Nacional de Acreditacion - ENAC (Spa in);  Swedish Board for Accreditation and
Conformity Assessment - SWE DAC (Sweden);  Swiss Federal Office of Metrology and
Accreditation, Swiss Accreditation Service  - SAS (Switzerland);  C NAB (Chinese Taipei);
National Accreditation Council - NAC (Thail and);  Tunisian Accreditation Council -
TUNAC (Tunisia);  United Kingdom Accreditation Service - UKAS (United Kingdom)
4. Date of entry into force of the Agreement:  22 January 1998
5. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading):
This Agreement concerns the conformity assessment procedures conducted by the
conformity assessment bodies of Brazil and the Economies of the Parties to this
Arrangement.
6. Subject matter covered by the Agreement (technical regulations, standards or
conformity assessment procedures):  Conformity assessment
7. Brief description of the Agreement:  Each participating body shall maintain conformance
with ISO/IEC Guide 61, and related IAF guidance, as well as ensure that all accredited bodies
conform with the appropriate ISO/IEC Guide and related IAF guidance. Each party shall
recognise the operation of the other parties’  quality management systems - within the
programs as defined in this Arrangement - as equivalent to its own. It will also recommend
and promote the acceptance of the certificates of conformity within the recognised scopes
from the bodies accredited by the participating bodies as being on an equal basis with those ofits own accredited bodies.
8. Further information available from:  National Institute of Metrology, Standardization 
and Industrial Quality-INMETRO – Brazilian Enquiry Point
Telephone: +(55) 21 2563.2821
Telefax: +(55) 21 2502.6542Email: barreirastecnicas@inmetro.gov.br
Web-site: www.inmetro.gov.br/barreirastecnicas
International Accreditation Forum (information concerning new members)
Web-site :  www.iaf.nu