Brazil Sets Compulsory Certification for Select Automotive Components

BARUERI, Brazil - March 26, 2015 - PRLog -- Brazil’s INMETRO Requires Component Certification

Ordinance # 123/2014 was published in the DOU (Union Official Diary) and came into effect on 24 March 2014. Manufacturers and importers will have only 18 months to comply with the new regulations.

The requirements approved do not apply to:

– Components for assembly lines of motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, tricycles and quadricycles;
– Components used in vehicles because of recall;
– The components applied exclusively in vehicles with production discontinued by 31 December 2008;
– Components intended solely for vehicles that have engines with a volume greater than 450 cubic centimeters;
– Components intended solely for vehicles having a maximum power exceeding 25 kW;
– Components intended solely for vehicles that have a public minimum suggested selling price of $25.000,00;
– Components covered by this Ordinance and that are imported as part of an assembled ensemble;
– Components intended solely for bikes, electric bicycles, machinery, implements and farm equipment.

Labeling Required on Some Excluded Components

NOTE: The automotive components of motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, tricycles and quadricycles, other than those referred to in Paragraph 3 of this article shall contain in their packaging and technical catalogues, electronic media or in physical environment, at points of sale, clearly and indelibly, accessible to the consumer, according to the phrases of 123/2014, with minimum font size 2 mm, for the purposes of referencing its exclusion from the scope of this regulation:

The automotive components of motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, tricycles and quadricycles intended for vehicles with production discontinued from 1 January 2009 until the date of publication of the Ordinance, and manufactured before the deadline 24 September 2015, may be marketed until the end of their stocks, since manufactured prior to the deadline set in the Ordinance 123/2014.

The new rules are applicable to:

- Pinion - RTQ 47/2014
- Crown – RTQ 45/2014
- Transmission chain - RTQ 44/2014
- Exhausters - RTQ 50/2014

Main differences between certification model 5 and model 7 (http://newsletter.sgs.com/eNewsletterPro/uploadedimages/0...) are listed in a table within the latest Safeguards bulletin.

Reference:

INMETRO (http://www.inmetro.gov.br/legislacao/detalhe.asp?seq_clas...)

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