G/TBT/N/MEX/273  
24 July 2014  
(14-4270)  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 governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible: Secretaría de Energía  (Ministry of Energy) 
Name and address (including telephon e 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:  
Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normalización de Instalaciones Eléctricas  (National Advisory 
Committee on Electrical Installation Standardization) 
La Dirección General de Distribución y Abastecimiento de Energía Eléctrica, y Recursos Nucleares  (Directorate-General of Electricity Distribution and Supply, and Nuclear 
Resources) 
Sita en Insurgentes Sur número 890, piso 8, colonia del Valle, Delegación Benito Juárez 
C.P. 03100 en México 
Distrito Federal Email: presidencia_ccnnie@energia.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.sener.gob.mx/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ ], 2. 10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [X], 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): Electrical 
installations (International Classification for Standards (ICS) code 91.140.50) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Anteproyecto de 
Procedimiento para la Evaluación de la Conformidad de la Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-
001-SEDE-2012, Instalaciones eléctricas (utilización)  
(Preliminary draft Conformity Assessment Procedure regarding Mexican Official Standard 
NOM-001-SEDE-2012: Electrical installations (use)) (16 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content: The notified preliminary draft Procedure assesses the conformity 
of installations defined in the Decision determ ining the public places subject to inspection 
of electrical installations, whether or not they  are supplied by the public electricity service, 
in accordance with the scope of NOM-001-SEDE-2012. 
Moreover, the relevant authority and its accredited electrical installation inspection units 
may, at any time and on justifiable grounds, carry out inspections, for the purpose of which the notified Conformity Assessment Procedure will be used. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Assessment, by means of inspection, of the conformity of electrical 
installations with Mexican Official Standard NOM-001-SEDE-2012: Electrical installations 
(use), assessment of compliance with energy-saving specifications, and consumer protection.  G/TBT/N/MEX/273 
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  8. Relevant documents:  
 Ley Federal sobre Metrología y Normalización  (Federal Law on Metrology and 
Standardization); 
 Ley del Servicio Público de Energía Eléctrica  (Law on the Public Electricity Service); 
 Reglamento de la Ley Federal sobre Metrología y Normalización  (Regulations 
implementing the Federal Law on Metrology and Standardization); 
 Reglamento de la Ley del Servicio Público de Energía Eléctrica  (Regulations 
implementing the Law on the Public Electricity Service); 
 Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-001-SEDE-2012, Instalaciones Eléctricas (utilización)  
(Mexican Official Standard NOM-001-SEDE-2012: Electrical installations (use)); 
 Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-008-SCFI-2002, Sistema General de Unidades de 
Medida  (Mexican Official Standard NOM-008-SC FI-2002: General system of units of 
measurement); 
 Norma Mexicana NMX-J-136-ANCE-2007, Abre viaturas y Símbolos para Diagramas, 
Planos y Equipos Eléctricos  (Mexican Standard NMX-J-136-ANCE-2007: 
Abbreviations and symbols for electricity diagrams, plans and equipment); 
 Decision determining the public places subject to inspection of electrical installations 
9. Proposed date of adoption: Not applicable 
Proposed date of entry into force: Not applicable  
10. Final date for comments: Not applicable 
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresse s, if available, of other body:  
Secretaría de Economía 
Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normatividad 
Dirección General de Normas 
Tel.: (+52) 55 5229 6100, Ext. 43217 Fax: (+52) 55 5520 9715 
Website: http://www.economia.gob.mx/comuni dad-negocios/c ompetitividad-
normatividad/normalizacion/catalogo-mexicano-de-normas  
Email: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or jesus.figueroa@economia.gob.mx  
Text available online at: 
http://www.dof.gob.mx/index.p hp?year=2014&month=02&day=04  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/tbt/mex/14_3219_00_s.pdf