ECU/364
WTO/TBT
EC Equateur
  • 21 - Systèmes et composants mécaniques à usage général
  • 77 - Métallurgie
  • 73 - Ouvrages en fonte, fer ou acier
2019-06-15
2019-04-23

The following communication, dated 6 May 2019, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of Ecuador:

Notification G/TBT/N/ECU/364 was circulated in error and should therefore be considered null and void.

Other (HS 730890); (ICS: 21.060.10, 77.140.70)

Proyecto de Tercera Revisión del Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano PRTE INEN 029 (3R) "Perfiles Corrugados y Postes de Acero Para Guardavías" (Draft third revision (3R) of Ecuadorian Standardization Institute Technical Regulation PRTE INEN No. 029 "Steel corrugated angles, shapes and sections and posts for guardrails") (9 pages, in Spanish)

The notified Technical Regulation establishes the requirements to be met by steel corrugated angles, shapes and sections and posts for guardrails, prior to the marketing of domestic and imported products, with the aim of protecting human safety and preventing misleading practices.

The notified technical regulation applies to the following products:

1.         Corrugated angles, shapes and sections (railings);

2.         Guardrail terminals;

3.         Transitions;

4.         Steel posts; 

5.         Spacers.