G/TBT/N/MEX/459  
21 October  2019 
(19-6846) 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) : Not 
applicable  
2. Agency responsible : Secretaria de Energía - Comisión Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y 
Salvaguardias  (Ministry of Energy - National Commission on Nuclear Safety and 
Safeguards)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of a gency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normalización de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias , 
CCNN -SNyS (National Advisory Committee on Standardizat ion for Nuclear Safety and 
Safeguards)  
Juan Eibenschutz Hartman, Chair  
Address : Dr José María Barragán Número 779 - 4to piso, colonia Narvarte, código postal 
03020, Ciudad de México.  
Tel.: 5095 3246 ; Fax: 5590 6103  
Email: ccnn_snys@cnsns.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 provi ded in addition, where applicable) : Products 
related to fissile material, other radioactive material transported, transport units, 
packages, packagings and packs used during transport by land or by water.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the n otified document : PROYECTO de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY -NOM-042-NUCL -2019, "Categorización de sustancias 
fisionables y otros materiales radiactivos y requisitos de seguridad física nuclear para su 
transporte"  (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY -NOM-042-NUCL -2019: "Categorization 
of fissile and other radioactive material and nuclear security requirements for the transport 
of such material"). (12 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Mexi can Official Standard applies to fissile and other 
radioactive material that is transported and to the transport units, packages, packagings 
and packs used when such material is transported by land or by water . It employs a 
graded approach, in which such m aterial is categorized according to factors such as its 
half-life, physical and chemical form, degree of dilution, radiation level, quantity, 
attractiveness, accessibility and use as a weapon.  
Criteria are established for categorizing fissile and other rad ioactive material so that 
nuclear security measures required during the transport of such material can be applied.  
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : To establish criteria for categorizing fissile and other radioactive material so 
that nuclear security measures required during the transport of such material can be 
applied ; Protection of human health or safety ; Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents : Reglamento para el Transporte Seguro de Material Radiactivo . 
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force : To be determined  
10. Final date for comments : 3 December 2 019. The draft standard was published in the 
Official Journal on 4 October 2 019. 
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [ ] 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)  
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729 9100, Ext. 43244  
Fax: (+52) 55 5520 9715  
Website : http://www.economia.gob.mx/comunidad -negocios/normalizacion/catalogo -
mexicano -de-normas  
Email:  
normasomc@economia.gob.mx  
sofia.pacheco@economia.gob.mx  
jose.ramosr@economia.gob.mx  
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5574430&fecha=04/10 /2019  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/MEX/19_5740_00_s.pdf