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16 February 2021  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
 
PROPOSAL  ON TRANSPARENCY : TRANSPARENCY ON COMMENTS TO TBT NOTIFICATIONS 
RECEIVED BY NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS  
NINTH TRIENNIAL REVIEW  
Submission from Brazil  
The following submission, dated 15 February 2021, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Brazil . 
 
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1  BACKGROUND  
1.1.  Comments to TBT notifications are submitted by interested parties directly to national 
government 's enquiry poi nts. With very few exceptions, such comments are either not available or 
difficult to find. More recently, Member have been also submitting their notifications to ePing, but 
these are unofficial and made on a voluntary basis.  
2  PROPOSAL  
2.1.  Brazil proposes that , whenever a Member submits a TBT notification with indication of a final 
date for comments, to the extent possible, the notification includes a website link in which all 
comments received by the enquiry point will be available. Such disclosure does not un dermine any 
confidentiality treatment requested by interested parties nor Members ' applicable legislation on 
protection of personal data and privacy. For improved efficiency and lower administrative burden on 
Members, comments made available do not need to  be in a WTO official language provided that the 
document can be subject to online translation.  
 
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