WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/BRA/53/Add.2
7 October 2003
(03-5249)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
Addendum
The following communication from Brazil is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
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This communication aims to inform the following amendments laid down by Ministerial Act
number 144, August 25th 2003, issued by the National Institute of Metrology, Standardisation and
Industrial Quality – Inmetro, concerning the Brazilian Technical Regulation notified under
G/TBT/N/BRA/53.
In Item 6 , the following sentence should be added:
This technical regulation revokes Ministerial Act number 2, January 7th 1998 and annex
metrological technical regulation, issued by Inmetro, on labelling requirements of pre-packaged
goods.
The full texts of the above mentioned documents  can be downloaded at the following links:
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/regs_ext/docs/documentos/CD000276.pdf
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/barreirastecnicas/pontofocal/buscaNotificacao.asp
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