What the UC Certification covers, who needs it, and how SZC-LAB tests and certifies your product for Brazil.
UC (formerly UCIEE) safety certification within the INMETRO system. Mandatory for medical electrical equipment and ballasts; voluntary for IT equipment, consumer electronics, luminaires and household appliances. Portuguese manuals and labels are required for mandatory products.
Market context: A local representative is required, and most programmes involve factory inspection.
It depends on the product category. For some products entering Brazil the UC Certification is a legal requirement, while for others it is applied voluntarily - usually because buyers, retailers or tenders ask for it. Send us your product and we will confirm which route applies.
The UC Certification is only as strong as the test report behind it. We run the underlying work - EMC & Safety Testing and the related programme for your product - in our own CNAS & ILAC accredited laboratory in Shenzhen, then prepare the documentation the UC Certification application is built on.
Need UC Certification for Brazil? Get a standards-based quotation with lead time and cost, within 2 working hours.
Lead time depends on the product, the standard behind the UC Certification and whether factory inspection is part of the route. You get a concrete timeline together with your quotation - we reply within 2 working hours.
Typically: product specification, user manual, schematic or block diagram, critical component list and 1-2 working samples. We confirm the exact list for your product along with the quotation.
It depends on the scheme - some marks are valid continuously with periodic surveillance, others need renewal or an annual factory inspection. We track the applicable maintenance cycle for you as part of the project.