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Lamps; electric filament or discharge lamps – Brazil

Official title

Ministerial Act: Nº 191, 27 May 2010 (40 pages in Portuguese).

Brazil issued an addendum on 7 November 2025 to the earlier TBT notification G/TBT/N/BRA/376. Addenda often report that a measure was adopted, changed, postponed or withdrawn. The measure was first notified on 23 June 2010. The comment period closed on 15 July 2025.

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At a glance

Products

Compact fluorescent lamps with integrated reactor (HS 8539.32)

HS codes
  • 85 · Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles
    • 853932 Mercury or sodium vapour lamps; metal halide lamps
Notifying member
Brazil
Status
Withdrawn, lifted or repealed, according to its latest notice
Objectives
  • Protection of the environment
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/BRA/376Latest notice: G/TBT/N/BRA/376/Add.6

Key dates

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Comment deadline
Closed on 15 July 2025
Proposed adoption
Proposed entry into force
Upon publication in the Official Journal after received comments have been taken into account.

What the notification says

Latest notice (⁨G/TBT/N/BRA/376/Add.6⁩, 7 November 2025)

The latest notice says the measure was withdrawn, lifted or repealed, in whole or in part.

Ordinance No. 693, 23 October 2025

National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetro, prohibit the manufacture, import, and sale of compact fluorescent lamps with ballast integrated into the base, electromagnetic ballasts for tubular fluorescent lamps, and electronic ballasts powered by alternating current for rectilinear, circular, and compact tubular fluorescent lamps, whose Conformity Assessment Requirements and Technical Regulations were approved by Inmetro Ordinances No. 17, of January 14, 2022, No. 500, of December 20, 2021, and No. 78, of February 4, 2021 - Consolidated, respectively. The following Inmetro Ordinances are revoked on 31 December 2026: No. 17, 14 January 2022, published in the Official Gazette of the Union on 17 January 2022, section 1, pages 33 to 38; No. 500, 20 December 2021, published in the Official Gazette of the Union on 28 December 2021, section 1, page 50; and No. 78, 4 February 2021, published in the Official Gazette of the Union on 11 February 2021, section 1, pages 69 to 70.

Proposed procedures to assess the conformity and labelling requirements for Compact fluorescent lamps with integrated reactor by a compulsory third party certification carried out by an accredited body.

Notices on this measure

Every notice about this measure published here, newest first. Each one is the notifying member's own text.

  1. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/376/Add.6

    Ordinance No. 693, 23 October 2025

    National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetro, prohibit the manufacture, import, and sale of compact fluorescent lamps with ballast integrated into the base, electromagnetic ballasts for tubular fluorescent lamps, and electronic ballasts powered by alternating current for rectilinear, circular, and compact tubular fluorescent lamps, whose Conformity Assessment Requirements and Technical Regulations were approved by Inmetro Ordinances No. 17, of January 14, 2022, No. 500, of December 20, 2021, and No. 78, of February 4, 2021 - Consolidated, respectively. The following Inmetro Ordinances are revoked on 31 December 2026: No. 17, 14 January 2022, published in the Official Gazette of the Union on 17 January 2022, section 1, pages 33 to 38; No. 500, 20 December 2021, published in the Official Gazette of the Union on 28 December 2021, section 1, page 50; and No. 78, 4 February 2021, published in the Official Gazette of the Union on 11 February 2021, section 1, pages 69 to 70.

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  2. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/376/Add.5

    Ordinance No. 693, 23 October 2025

    National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetro, prohibit the manufacture, import, and sale of compact fluorescent lamps with ballast integrated into the base, electromagnetic ballasts for tubular fluorescent lamps, and electronic ballasts powered by alternating current for rectilinear, circular, and compact tubular fluorescent lamps, whose Conformity Assessment Requirements and Technical Regulations were approved by Inmetro Ordinances No. 17, of January 14, 2022, No. 500, of December 20, 2021, and No. 78, of February 4, 2021 - Consolidated, respectively. The following Inmetro Ordinances are revoked on 31 December 2026: No. 17, 14 January 2022, published in the Official Gazette of the Union on 17 January 2022, section 1, pages 33 to 38; No. 500, 20 December 2021, published in the Official Gazette of the Union on 28 December 2021, section 1, page 50; and No. 78, 4 February 2021, published in the Official Gazette of the Union on 11 February 2021, section 1, pages 69 to 70.

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  3. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/376/Add.4

    Comment deadline: Closed on 15 July 2025

    Inmetro Public Consultation No. 14, 7 May 2025

    National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetro, issued Public Consultation No. 14, 7 May 2025, a proposal to prohibit the manufacture, import, and sale of compact fluorescent lamps with ballast integrated into the base, electromagnetic ballasts for tubular fluorescent lamps, and electronic ballasts powered by alternating current for rectilinear, circular, and compact tubular fluorescent lamps, whose Conformity Assessment Requirements and Technical Regulations were approved by Inmetro Ordinances No. 17, of January 14, 2022, No. 500, of December 20, 2021, and No. 78, of February 4, 2021 - Consolidated, respectively. Comments must be presented on the Participa + Brasil Platform at: Comments should be made until 15 July 2025

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  4. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/376/Add.3

    Consolidation of the conformity assessment requirements for compact fluorescent lamps with integrated base reactor.

    National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetro issued Ordinance No. 17, 14 January 2022 that consolidates the conformity assessment requirements for compact fluorescent lamps with integrated base reactor. The aim of the consolidation of the regulation is to attend decree no. 10.139 of 28 November 2020. Inmetro Ordinance No. 17 revokes the following acts on the effective date of adoption: - Inmetro Ordinance - No. 489, of 8 December 2010, published in the Brazilian Official Gazette of 10 December 2010, section 1, page 96; and - Inmetro Ordinance No. 471, of 23 September 2013, published in the Brazilian Official Gazette of September 25, 2013, section 1, pages 137 to 138, previously notified through G/TBT/N/BRA/376/Add.2

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  5. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/376/Add.2

    This addendum aims at informing the adjustment of the document notified under the G/TBT/N/BRA/376/Add.1, through the ordinance nº 471, 23 September 2013, issued by Inmetro - National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology. It suits the needs of conformity assessment procedures for Compact fluorescent lamps with integrated reactor(HS 8539.32) by amending the conformity assessment activities, rewording some items and exclude others, concerning the adoption of essential procedures to attend

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  6. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/376/Add.1

    This document aims at replacing the document notified under the G/TBT/N/BRA/376, issued by Inmetro – National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality, which proposed mandatory technical requirements/conformity assessment procedures for Compact fluorescent lamps with integrated reactor (HS 8539.32).; This notified document turned into Ministerial Act number 489 (published in Official Gazette N° 236, 10 December 2010, Section 1) concerning the adoption of essential procedure

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  7. Regular notificationG/TBT/N/BRA/376

    Comment deadline: Closed on 28 June 2010

    Ministerial Act: Nº 191, 27 May 2010 (40 pages in Portuguese).

    Proposed procedures to assess the conformity and labelling requirements for Compact fluorescent lamps with integrated reactor by a compulsory third party certification carried out by an accredited body.

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Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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