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WORKING SUBGROUP N°3 Technical Regulation and Conformity Assessment. Fernando Goulart INMETRO. SINMETRO Public and Private organizations. Development, Industry and Foreign Trade; Environmental; Employment; Health; Science and Technology; Foreign Affairs; Justice;
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WORKING SUBGROUP N°3 Technical Regulation and Conformity Assessment Fernando Goulart INMETRO
SINMETRO Public and Private organizations • Development, Industry and Foreign Trade; • Environmental; • Employment; • Health; • Science and Technology; • Foreign Affairs; • Justice; • Agriculture, Cattle and Supply; • Defense. CONMETRO Council of Ministers INMETRO Executive Body
CONMETRO Normative Body of SINMETRO Ministers Council CBN CBM CBAC CBTC CCAB New! CBR
Member-States Associated-Members MERCOSUR NEGOTIATIONS ON TECHNICAL BARRIERS TO TRADE MERCOSUR IN NUMBERS Brazilian Exports Participation Growth: Comparatives between 2005/December and 2004/December.
Coffee 1st world exporter • Orange Juice 1st world exporter • Cattle Meat 1st world exporter • Soya 1st world exporter • Wool Tops 2nd world exporter • Lamb Meat 3rd world exporter • Aircrafts 4th world exporter • Dirty Wool 5th world exporter • Automobiles Production 73% of Latin America’s MERCOSUR IN NUMBERS TRADE EXPORTS MERCOSUR World Exports (in thousand dollars f.o.b.) Source: ALADI, Sistema Integral de Información, Versión 3.00, December 2003
Common Market Council Common Market Council Commission of Permanent Representatives Common Market Group Common Market Group Trade Commission Trade Commission Joint Parliamentary Commission Joint Parliamentary Commission Economic and Social Consultative Forum Economic and Social Consultative Forum MERCOSUL – STRUCTURE Decision Making Bodies Parliamentary Representative Body Consultive Body MERCOSUR Secretariant Supporting and Technical Body MERCOSUR Secretariant
MERCOSUR THE WORKING SUBGROUP N°3 (SGT Nº 3) • Coordinated nationwide by Inmetro; • Seeks to eliminate possible technical barriers; • Also represents the TBT Agreement on negotiations between Mercosur and EU, ALCA, ALADI, IBAS, 4+1(USA); • Within the Mercosur structure, there are currently 14 working subgroups; • it is made up by the following commissions: Metrology, Security of Electrical Products; Conformity Assessment; Toys, Vehicular Natural Gas; Food; and Automotive Industry. The Subgroup Nº 3 establishes similar parameters for the member-states. So far, more than 264 Technical Regulations were harmonized.
NATIONAL COORDINATION (INMETRO/CAINT) GT-BICYCLES (INMETRO) GT-VEHICULAR NATURAL GAS (INMETRO/ANP) GT-TEXTILES (INMETRO) NEW WORKING GROUP ! FOOD (MAPA/ANVISA) PREPACKAGE GOODS AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY (DENATRAN/MIN. DAS CIDADES) INSTRUMENTS TECHNICAL COMMISSIONS METROLOGY (INMETRO) SEGURITY ELECTRICAL PRODUCTS (INMETRO) CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT (INMETRO) THE WORKING SUBGROUP N°3 (SGT Nº 3) STRUCTURE
PERCENTAGE OF HARMONIZED TECHNICAL REGULATIONS COMMISSIONS/GROUPS: Metrology Conformity Assessment Toys Food Automotives Bicycles Textiles SGT Nº 3 MERCOSUR WORKING PROGRAM Supporting commerce intra-zone
SGT N° 11 Health CT2/CCM Custom SGT N° 9 Energy SGT N° 1 Communications SGT N° 3 Technical Regulation and Conformity Assessment SGT N° 8 Agriculture SGT N° 5 Transports SGT N° 7 Industry SGT N° 6 Environment INMETRO: SGT Nº 3/MERCOSUR Relationship with others Mercosur Working Subgroups
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