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ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/10.7/N/39
12 December 2002
(02-6887)
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:  Agreement on Mutual Acceptance of
Test Reports and Calibration Certificates between the Signatories to the European
Co-operation for Accreditation Multilateral Agreement and the Instituto Nacional de
Metrologia, Normalização e Qualidade Industrial.
3. Parties to the Agreement: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour (Austria);
BELCERT (Belgium);  Belgian Calibration Or ganisation (Belgium);  BELTEST (Belgium);
Czech Accreditation Institute (Czech Republic);  Danish Accreditation (Denmark);  Finnish
Accreditation Service (Finland);  Comité Français d’Accréditation (France);  Deutscher
Akkreditierungsrat (Germany);  Icelandic Board for Technical Accreditation (Iceland);National Accreditation Board (Ireland);  Servizio  di Taratura in Italia (Italy);  Sistema
Nazionale per l’Accreditamento degli Organismi di Certificazioni e Ispezione (Italy);
Sistema Nazionale per l’Accreditamento di Laboratori (Italy);  Latvian National
Accreditation Bureau (Latvia);  Lithuanian National Accreditation Bureau (Lithuania);
Raad voor Accreditatie  (Netherland);  Instituto Português de Qualidade (Portugal);  Slovak
National Accreditation Service (Slovakia);  Entidad Nacional de Acreditación (Spain);
Swedish Board for Accreditation and Conformity Assessment (Sweden);  Swiss
Accreditation Service (Switzerland);  United Kingdom Accreditation Service
(United Kingdom)
4. Date of entry into force of the Agreement:  30 January 2001
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
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6. Subject matter covered by the Agreement (technical regulations, standards or
conformity assessment procedures):  Conformity assessment
7. Brief description of the Agreement:  The EA Signatories for testing and calibration and
Inmetro will recognise the operation of their Nationally Recognised LaboratoryAccreditation Schemes, complying with relevant standards in the EN 45000 series or
equivalent ISO Guides/Standards and the EA application documents to these standards, as
being equivalent;  accept on an equal basis the test reports and calibration certificates issued
by their accredited testing and calibration laboratories;  promote the acceptance of test
reports and calibration certificates issued by their accredited testing and calibrationlaboratories by all users in their countries;  investigate all complaints resulting from test
reports and calibration certificates issued by their accredited testing and calibration
laboratories;  inform each other, as soon as possible, of any significant changes that have
occurred or will occur in the status and/or operational practices of heir own accreditation
body and system.
8. Further information available from:  National Institute of Metrology, Standardisation and
Industrial Quality-INMETRO – Brazilian Enquiry Point
Telephone: +(55) 21 2563.2821
Telefax: +(55) 21 2502.6542
Email: barreirastecnicas@inmetro.gov.br
Website: www.inmetro.gov.br/barreirastecnicas
European Co-operation for Accreditation (information concerning new members)
Web site :  www.european-accreditation.org/mla/