1. Fernando Goulart INMETRO WORKING SUBGROUP N°3 Technical Regulation and Conformity Assessment

2. SINMETRO Public and Private organizations CONMETRO Council of Ministers Development, Industry and Foreign Trade; Environmental; Employment; Health; Science and Technology; Foreign Affairs; Justice; Agriculture, Cattle and Supply; Defense. INMETRO Executive Body

3. CONMETRO Normative Body of SINMETRO Ministers Council CBNCBMCBACCCAB CBR New! CBTC

4. Member-States Associated-Members Growth: Comparatives between 2005/December and 2004/December. MERCOSUR NEGOTIATIONS ON TECHNICAL BARRIERS TO TRADE Brazilian Exports Participation MERCOSUR IN NUMBERS

5. TRADE  In World Trade 2% participation  In the Latin American Trade 30% participation  In the South American Trade 60% participation EXPORTS 4th world exporter  Aircrafts 73% of Latin America’s  Automobiles Production 5th world exporter  Dirty Wool 3rd world exporter  Lamb Meat 2nd world exporter  Wool Tops 1st world exporter  Soya 1st world exporter  Cattle Meat 1st world exporter  Orange Juice 1st world exporter  Coffee MERCOSUR World Exports (in thousand dollars f.o.b.) Source: ALADI, Sistema Integral de Información, Versión 3.00, December 2003 MERCOSUR IN NUMBERS

6. MERCOSUL – STRUCTURE Decision Making Bodies Supporting and Technical Body Parliamentary Representative Body Commission of Permanent Representatives Consultive Body MERCOSUR Secretariant Economic and Social Consultative Forum Joint Parliamentary Commission Trade Commission Common Market Group Common Market Council

7. MERCOSUR WORKING SUBGROUPS

8. 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.

9. INSTRUMENTS PREPACKAGE GOODS NATIONAL COORDINATION (INMETRO/CAINT) GT- VEHICULAR NATURAL GAS (INMETRO/ANP)GT-BICYCLES(INMETRO) GT-TEXTILES(INMETRO) AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY (DENATRAN/MIN. DAS CIDADES) FOOD(MAPA/ANVISA) CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT (INMETRO) SEGURITY ELECTRICAL PRODUCTS (INMETRO) METROLOGY(INMETRO) TECHNICAL COMMISSIONS NEW WORKING GROUP ! THE WORKING SUBGROUP N°3 (SGT Nº 3) STRUCTURE

10. SGT Nº 3 MERCOSUR WORKING PROGRAM COMMISSIONS/GROUPS: Metrology Conformity Assessment Toys Food Automotives Bicycles Textiles PERCENTAGE OF HARMONIZED TECHNICAL REGULATIONS Supporting commerce intra-zone

11. Relationship with others Mercosur Working Subgroups INMETRO: SGT Nº 3/MERCOSUR SGT N° 3 Technical Regulation and Conformity and ConformityAssessment SGT N° 3 Technical Regulation and Conformity and ConformityAssessment SGT N° 1 Communications SGT N° 1 Communications SGT N° 11 Health SGT N° 11 Health SGT N° 8 Agriculture SGT N° 8 Agriculture SGT N° 7 Industry SGT N° 7 Industry SGT N° 6 Environment SGT N° 6 Environment SGT N° 5 Transports SGT N° 5 Transports SGT N° 9 Energy SGT N° 9 Energy CT2/CCM Custom CT2/CCM Custom

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