G/TBT/N/MEX/475  
9 September  2020 
(20-6100) 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 comm ents 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
Oklahoma número 14, planta baja, colonia Nápoles, código postal 03810, México, D.F . 
Tel.: 50-80-52-00, Ext. 1333 ; Fax: 55-11-14-99; 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) : Cannabis 
and its pharmacological derivatives  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Reglamento en 
materia de control sanitario para la producción, investigación y uso medicinal de la 
cannabis y sus derivados farmacológicos  (Sanitary control r egulations for the production 
and medicinal use of, and research into, cannabis and its pharmacological derivatives) 
(35 page(s), in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified legislation covers the sanitary regulation, control, 
promotion and surveillance of raw materials, molecular complexes, pharmacological 
derivatives and medicines for production, scientific, industrial and medical purposes . 
Pursuant to  these prov isions,  the Ministry of Health, through the Federal Commission for 
Protection against Health Risks ; the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, 
through the National Agri -Food Health, Safety and Quality Service and the National Seed 
Inspection and Ce rtification Service ; the Ministry of the Economy ; and the Ministry of 
Finance and Public Credit, through the Tax Administration Service, will exercise the 
powers conferred on them by laws, regulations and other legal provisions within their 
areas of compet ence.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:  
Ley General de Salud  
9. Proposed date of adoption : Not available  
Proposed date of entry into force : Not available  G/TBT/N/MEX/475  
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  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.: 5729 9100, Ext . 13217/13264  
Email : César Osvaldo Orozco Arce cesar.orozco@economia.gob.mx  
Tania Daniela Fosado Soriano: tania.fosado@economia.gob.mx  
http://187.191.71.192/portales/resumen/49785  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2020/TBT/MEX/20_5364_00_s.pdf