./.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/10.7/N/42
8 January 2003
(03-0043)
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 conformityassessment 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 under
Article  10.7 has been received.
1. Member notifying:  BRAZIL
2. Title of the bilateral or plurilateral Agreement:  Multilateral Recognition Arrangement
for Accreditation Bodies of Testing and Calibration Laboratories
3. Parties to the Agreement:  Inmetro (Brazil);  SCC (Canad a) and A2LA (United States)
4. Date of entry into force of the Agreement:  24 October 2002
5. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading):
This Arrangement concerns the conformity assessment procedures conducted by the
conformity assessment bodies of Brazil and the Economies of the Parties to this
Arrangement.
6. Subject matter covered by the Agreement (technical regulations, standards or 
conformity assessment procedures):  Conformity assessment
7. Brief description of the Agreement:  By this Arrangement, each signatory recommends
and promotes the acceptance of the calibration certificates and test reports from the
laboratories accredited by the other signatories as being on an equal basis with those of itsown accredited laboratories.  It promotes international acceptance of certificates of
conformity and the results of testing and calibration issued by duly accredited conformity
assessment organizations.G/TBT/10.7/N/42
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8. Further information available from:
National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality-INMETRO – 
Brazilian Enquiry Point
Telephone: +(55) 21 2563.2821
Telefax: +(55) 21 2502.6542
Email: barreirastecnicas@inmetro.gov.br
Web-site: www.inmetro.gov.br/barreirastecnicas