Certifying Explosion-Proof Equipment for Brazil
INMETRO certification for Ex equipment: the three product categories, the document list, and when IECEx gives presumption of conformity and ATEX does not.
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G-Mark certification
The Gulf conformity mark reaches only the categories a GSO technical regulation names, which is why most exporters need a national scheme alongside it.
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G-Mark is the Gulf conformity mark. It is granted against technical regulations issued by the GCC Standardization Organization and recognised across seven GSO member states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen. That list repays a careful reading, because Yemen joined GSO in 2010 without belonging to the Gulf Cooperation Council. The route runs through a notified body: testing at an approved laboratory, type examination, then the mark applied to the product, the packaging, or both.
The mark reaches exactly as far as the regulations do, and no further. A GSO technical regulation has to name your category before G-Mark is available at all: children’s toys under BD-131704-01, gas appliances, children’s car seats and pushchairs, high-risk electrical goods such as irons, kettles, microwaves and sockets. Manufacturers regularly arrive expecting a regional certificate to cover a whole catalogue and discover it covers two lines of it. Everything outside those regulations enters on a national scheme, which is the ordinary case rather than the exception.
So the working plan for the region is regional plus national. Saudi Arabia clears goods through SABER under the SALEEM programme, a Product Certificate of Conformity per product and a Shipment Certificate per consignment, and that Product Certificate is issued in the name of your Saudi importer of record, so it does not follow the goods when you change distributor. The United Arab Emirates works through MOIAT, with ECAS across most categories and EQM, the Emirates Quality Mark, where the risk profile pushes a product into factory audits.
Test evidence moves between these schemes; the certificates do not. One IEC 60335 safety report can support a G-Mark type examination, a SABER file and an ECAS registration, provided the laboratory holds ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation the destination regulator recognises, and some regulators accept only laboratories they have pre-approved. Arabic labelling and manuals are a separate obligation on top. The article below covers the same problem in another region, INMETRO certification for explosion-proof equipment in Brazil, where an IECEx certificate gives presumption of conformity and an ATEX certificate does not.
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Frequently asked questions
Does G-Mark cover everything I want to sell in the Gulf?
No. It applies only where a GSO technical regulation names the category, which today means toys under BD-131704-01, gas appliances, children’s car seats and pushchairs, and high-risk electrical goods such as irons, kettles, microwaves and sockets. Anything outside those regulations reaches the market on a national scheme instead, SABER in Saudi Arabia and ECAS in the United Arab Emirates.
Will a G-Mark certificate clear my shipment into Saudi Arabia or the UAE?
No. Saudi customs release runs on the SABER Shipment Certificate, and UAE release runs on an ECAS registration held through MOIAT. Hold the G-Mark for the categories that require it and file the national certificate for the destination, reusing the same accredited test reports behind both rather than commissioning testing twice.
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