The Brazilian Association of Technical Standards, usually rendered in

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

as Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT) is a private

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and the normative body which is responsible for

technical standard A technical standard is an established norm or requirement for a repeatable technical task which is applied to a common and repeated use of rules, conditions, guidelines or characteristics for products or related processes and production methods, ...

s in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

, and intends to promote technological development in the country. Brazilian national standards published by the association are named ''Norma Brasileira Regulamentadora'' and abbreviated NBR. ABNT was founded in 1940. It was officially adopted by the Brazilian government in 1962. It is a founding member of the ''

International Organization for Standardization The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ) is an international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. Membership requirements are given in Art ...

'' (ISO), the

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(COPANT) and the Asociación Mercosur de Normalización (AMN). ABNT is the exclusive representative of Brazil in the international organizations

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and IEC and in the regional entities COPANT and AMN.

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* Electrical safety standards organizations ISO member bodies 1940 establishments in Brazil Organisations based in Rio de Janeiro (city) Organisations based in São Paulo Standards organisations in Brazil {{standard-stub