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25 August 2021  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication , dated  25 August 2021 , is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Brazil . 
 
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Title: Designation of laboratories that deals with Inmetro Ordinance No. 176.  
 
Reason for Addendum:  
[  ] Comment period changed - date:   
[  ] Notified measure adopted - date:  
[X] Notified measure published - date: 24 August 2021  
[X] Notified measure enters into force - date: 1 September 2021  
[X] Text of final measure available from1:  
https://portal.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/ -/portaria -inmetro -n-353-de-23-de-agosto -de-
2021-340157370   
[  ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  
Relevant symbol if measure re -notified:   
[  ] Content or scope of notified measure changed  and text available from1:  
New deadline for comments (if applicable):   
[  ] Interpretive guidance issued and text available from1:  
[  ] Other:  
 
Description:  National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology – Inmetro, issued Ordinance 
No. 353, 23 August 2021, which establishes the requirements and procedures that should be 
observed for the granting, maintenance, suspension or cancellation of the designa tion of 
laboratories, for carrying out examinations and tests and issuing reports of examinations and tests 
to be considered in model evaluation processes of measuring instruments covered by the legal 
metrological control. These requirements are related to  Inmetro Ordinance No. 176, notified through 
G/TBT/N/BRA/884/Add.2  
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1 This information can be provided by including a website address, a pdf attachment, or other 
information on where the text of the final /modified  measure and/or interpretive guidance can be obtained.  