G/TBT/N/MEX/468  
6 July 2020 
(20-4632) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : MEXICO  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible : Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios  
(Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
José Alonso Novelo Baeza, Comisionado Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos 
Sanitarios  (Federal Commissioner for Protection against Health Risks) , Presidente del 
Comité Consultivo Naci onal de Normalización de Regulación y Fomento Sanitario (Chair of 
the National Advisory Committee on Standardization for the Regulation and Promotion of 
Health)  
Oklahoma número 14, planta baja, colonia Nápoles, Código Postal 03810, Ciudad de 
México, Mexic o 
Tel.: (+52) 5080 5200, Ext. 11333  
Email: rfs@cofepris.gob.mx . 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : Pre-
packaged food and non -alcoholic beverages  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Decreto por el 
que se Reforman, Adicionan y Derogan dive rsas disposiciones del Reglamento de Control 
Sanitario de Productos y Servicios y del Reglamento de la Ley General de Salud en Materia 
de Publicidad  (Decree amending, supplementing and repealing various provisions of the 
Regulations on Sanitary Control of Products and Services and the Implementing 
Regulations to the General Law on Health with Respect to Advertising) (6 pages, in 
Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Decree amends the Regulations on Sanitary Control 
of Products and Services and the Implementing Regulations to the General Law on Health 
with Respect to Advertising, in order to ensure compliance with the second transitional 
provision of the De cree amending and supplementing various provisions of the General 
Law on Health with respect to overweight, obesity and the labelling of food and non -
alcoholic beverages, published in the Official Journal on 8 November 2 019. 
7. Objective and rationale, in cluding the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Consumer information, labelling ; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection ; Protection of human health or safety.  G/TBT/N/MEX/468  
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  8. Relevant documents:  
• Reglamento de la Ley General de Salud en Materia de Publicidad  (Implementing 
Regulations to the General Law on Health with Respect to Advertising)  
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force : To be determined  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Secretaría de Economía  (Ministry of the Economy)  
Dirección General de Normas  (Directorate -General of Standards)  
Calle Pachuca número 189, pisos 7 y 12, Colonia Condesa, Demarcación Territorial 
Cuauhtémoc, Código Postal 06140, Ciudad de México, Mexico  
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729 9100, Ext. 43244  
Fax: (+52) 55 5520 9715  
Email:  
César Osvaldo  Orozco Arce: cesar.orozco@economia.gob.mx  
Tania Daniela Fosado Soriano: tania.fosado@economia.gob.mx  
José César Ramos: jose.ramosr@economia.gob.mx  
http://187.191.71.192/portales/resumen/49519  
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