ECU/470
WTO/TBT
EC Equateur
  • 39 - Matières plastiques et ouvrages en ces matières
  • 63 - Autres articles textiles confectionnés; assortiments; friperie et chiffons
  • 90 - Instruments et appareils d'optique, de photographie ou de cinématographie, de mesure, de contrôle ou de précision; instruments et appareils médico-chirurgicaux; parties et accessoires de ces instruments ou appareils
2019-08-05
2019-06-18

Other breathing appliances and gas masks, excluding protective

masks having neither mechanical parts nor replaceable filters (HS 9020); Other (HS 392690); Other (HS 630790)

Proyecto de Tercera Revisión del Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano PRTE INEN 181 (3R) "Equipos de protección respiratoria" (Draft third revision (3R) of Ecuadorian Standardization Institute Technical Regulation PRTE INEN No. 181 "Respiratory protective devices") (12 pages, in Spanish)

The notified Ecuadorian Technical Regulation establishes the requirements to be met by respiratory protective devices, prior to the marketing of domestic and imported products, with the aim of protecting human health and safety and preventing deceptive practices.

It applies to the following products:

1.    Full face masks for use as respiratory protective equipment;

2.    Half masks and quarter masks for use as part of respiratory protective equipment;

3.    Filtering half masks used as respiratory protective devices;

4.    Particle filters for use as components in unassisted respiratory protective equipment;

5.    Gas filters and combined filters used as components in unassisted respiratory protective equipment.

It does not apply to:

1.    Diving, evacuation or escape equipment; 

2.    Carbon monoxide filters.