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4 Jan uary 2023 
(23-0005) Page: 1/2 
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/barreiraste cnicas  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  RUBBER 
AND ARTICLES THEREOF (HS code(s): 40)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Inmetro 
Ordinance N° 547, 14 December 2022.; (13 page(s), in Portuguese)  
6. Description of content:  Inmetro Ordinance No. 115/20 22 consolidates conformity 
assessment requirements for fire hoses.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Safety requirements.  
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 reg ulatory processes will be 
reduced; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
1) Brazilian Official Gazette 237 on 19 December 2022, section 1, page 91  
https://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/ -/portaria -n-547-de-14-de-dezembro -de-2022-
451624571  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  2 January 2023  
Proposed date of entry into force:  2 January 2023  G/TBT/N/BRA/1462  
 
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  10. Final date for comments:  Not Applicable  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
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  
http://sistema -sil.inmetro.gov.br/rtac/RTAC002 992.pdf  
 