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Lifting, handling – Brazil

Official title

Inmetro Ordinance Nº 449, 3 October 2014 - Conformity Assessment Requirements That Must Be Met for Vehicle Lifting Platforms Manufactured to Be Installed on Vehicles with Road Characteristics (16 pages, in Portuguese)

Brazil issued an addendum on 10 August 2026 to the earlier TBT notification G/TBT/N/BRA/610. Addenda often report that a measure was adopted, changed, postponed or withdrawn. The measure was first notified on 8 October 2014. The comment period closed on 9 September 2026.

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Products

Vehicle platform lift. Other lifting, handling, loading & unloading machinery elevators (HS 8428)

HS codes
  • 84 · Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof
    • 8428 Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery, e.g. lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics (excl. pulley tackle and hoists, winches and capstans, jacks…
Notifying member
Brazil
Status
Updated: check whether it is now adopted or in force
Objectives
  • Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection
  • Quality requirements
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/BRA/610Latest notice: G/TBT/N/BRA/610/Add.8

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 9 September 2026
Proposed adoption
Upon publication in the Official Journal after received comments have been taken into account
Proposed entry into force
Upon publication in the Official Journal after received comments have been taken into account

How to comment

The comment period closed on 9 September 2026. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO TBT enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/BRA/610/Add.8; it can take them up with Brazil.

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What the notification says

Latest notice (⁨G/TBT/N/BRA/610/Add.8⁩, 10 August 2026)

Public Consultation No. 12, 3 August 2026

National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetro, issued the proposal to amend the Conformity Identification Marks for electric wires, cables, and flexible cords; lead-acid batteries for motor vehicles; flexible polyurethane foam mattresses and pads; spring mattresses; metal cookware; new tires; gas lighters; and LED lamps and luminaires—whose consolidated regulations are established by Inmetro Ordinances No. 131 (March 23, 2022), No. 145 (March 28, 2022), No. 35 (February 5, 2021), No. 75 (February 4, 2021), No. 499 (December 20, 2021), No. 379 (September 14, 2021), No. 63 (December 22, 2020), and No. 231 (April 13, 2026), respectively—with the aim of integrating them into the 'Inmetro na Palma da Mão' (Inmetro in the Palm of Your Hand) project.

Establish the requirements for conformity assessment that must be met for compulsory certification for vehicle lifting platforms manufactured to be installed on vehicles with road characteristics, classes buses and minibuses, for the public passenger transportation, with road features for the public transport of passengers, focusing on safety, for the prevention of accidents.

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/610/Add.8

    Comment deadline: Closed on 9 September 2026

    Public Consultation No. 12, 3 August 2026

    National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetro, issued the proposal to amend the Conformity Identification Marks for electric wires, cables, and flexible cords; lead-acid batteries for motor vehicles; flexible polyurethane foam mattresses and pads; spring mattresses; metal cookware; new tires; gas lighters; and LED lamps and luminaires—whose consolidated regulations are established by Inmetro Ordinances No. 131 (March 23, 2022), No. 145 (March 28, 2022), No. 35 (February 5, 2021), No. 75 (February 4, 2021), No. 499 (December 20, 2021), No. 379 (September 14, 2021), No. 63 (December 22, 2020), and No. 231 (April 13, 2026), respectively—with the aim of integrating them into the 'Inmetro na Palma da Mão' (Inmetro in the Palm of Your Hand) project.

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  2. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/610/Add.7

    Revocation of low impact regulatory measure - Vehicle Vehicular Lifting Platform.

    National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology – Inmetro, issued Ordinance No. 79, 3 March 2022 that reviews the regulatory stock in order to revoke regulatory measure of low impact for society - Vehicle Vehicular Lifting Platform. The aim of the consolidation of the regulation is to attend decree No. 10.139 of 28 November 2020. Inmetro Ordinance No. 79 revokes on the date of 1 April 2022: - Inmetro Ordinance No. 164, of 23 March 2015, published in the Official Gazette of 25 March, 2015, section 1, page 60, previously notified through G/TBT/N/BRA/610/Add.1 and - Inmetro Ordinance No. 165, of 23 March 2015, published in the Official Gazette of 25 March 2015, section 1, page 60 previously notified through G/TBT/N/BRA/596/Add.1.

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  3. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/610/Add.6

    Public Consultation on the cancellation of conformity assessment regulation

    National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetro, issued Public Consultation No. 22, 13 December 2021 that proposes the cancellation vehicle lifting platforms manufactured to be installed on vehicles with road characteristics conformity assessment regulation. Criticisms and suggestions should be forwarded in the spreadsheet model available at: preferably in electronic form to the following addresses: - National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetro Conformity Assessment Directorate - Dconf Av. Nossa Senhora das Graças, nº 50/Xerém ZIP Code 25.250-020 – Rio de Janeiro/RJ - E-mail: dconf.consultapublica@inmetro.gov.br Comments should be made until 14 January 2022.

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  4. CorrigendumG/TBT/N/BRA/610/Add.5/Corr.1

    National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetro corrects the Article 16, that should be read as: 'I - Inmetro Ordinance 515, 13 December 2019, published in the Official Gazette on 18 December 2019...'

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  5. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/610/Add.5

    Technical Quality Regulations and Compliance Assessment Requirements for Border Crossing Devices - Consolidated.

    National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology – Inmetro, issued the Inmetro Ordinance 36, 4 February 2021 that approves the Consolidated Regulation for border transposition devices, in the form of the Technical Quality Regulation, the Conformity Assessment Requirements and the Specifications for the Conformity Identification Seal, established, respectively, in Annexes I, II and III. The Ordinance revokes, the Inmetro Ordinance 389, 15 August 2019, published in the Official Gazette on 26 August 2019, section 1, page 45.

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  6. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/610/Add.4

    This document aims to inform that the National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology / Inmetro issued, on 15 August 2019, Ordinance 389, published, on 26 August 2019, in the Official Journal of Brazil, part I, 164, page 45/46. The Ordinance lays down safety technical requirements to prevent accidents for transfer devices: Vehicle Transfer Seat - VTS and Vehicle Transfer Device - VTD, establishing criteria and procedures to assess the conformity of accessibility parameters in M3 category

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  7. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/610/Add.3

    This document aims at informing that the National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology/Inmetroissued Ordinance 205, 17 July 2017, published in the Brazilian Official Journal, part I, Nº 137, page 56/57, 19 July 2017, in order to reword article number 4 from the Ordinance 164/2015 (G/TBT/N/BRA/610/Add.1) and to inform that, within 90 (ninety) days from the date of the publication of this Ordinance, technical requirements will be published that shall be met by manufactures of devices and

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  8. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/610/Add.2

    This addendum aims at informing that the National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (Inmetro), issued Ordinance Nº 294, 28 June 2016, approving adjustments to the Conformity Assessment Requirements That Must Be Met for Vehicle Lifting Platforms Manufactured to Be Installed on Vehicles with Road Characteristics, notified as G/TBT/N/BRA/610, where: § Reword art. 1º and art. 2º of Inmetro Ordinance Nº 269, 2 June 2015 § Reword art. 4º of Inmetro Ordinance Nº 164, 23 March 2015, notifie

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  9. AddendumG/TBT/N/BRA/610/Add.1

    This document aims at informing that the National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetroissued Ordinance nº 164, 23 March 2015, published in the Brazilian Official Journal, part I, Nº 57, page 60, 25 March 2015, establishing the conformity assessment requirements that must be met by vehicle lifting platforms to be installed on vehicles with road characteristics, classes buses and minibuses, for the public passenger transportation, with road features, in accordance with the requ

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  10. Regular notificationG/TBT/N/BRA/610

    Comment deadline: Closed on 5 November 2014

    Inmetro Ordinance Nº 449, 3 October 2014 - Conformity Assessment Requirements That Must Be Met for Vehicle Lifting Platforms Manufactured to Be Installed on Vehicles with Road Characteristics (16 pages, in Portuguese)

    Establish the requirements for conformity assessment that must be met for compulsory certification for vehicle lifting platforms manufactured to be installed on vehicles with road characteristics, classes buses and minibuses, for the public passenger transportation, with road features for the public transport of passengers, focusing on safety, for the prevention of accidents.

    Open on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)Official WTO document (opens in a new tab)

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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