G/TBT/N/MEX/330  
4 November 2016  
(16-6071) 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 : Secretaría de Economía  (Ministry of t he Economy)  
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:  
Comité Consultivo Naci onal de Normalización de la Secretaría de Economía , CCONNSE 
(National Advisory Committee on Standardization of the Ministry of the Economy)  
Av. Puente de Tecamachalco número 6  
Colonia Lomas de Tecamachalco, Sección Fuentes  
Naucalpan de Juárez, C.P. 53950, Estado de México  
Tel.: 5729 6100, Ext. 43222  
Email: karla.fernandez@economia.gob.mx , isaac.aldana@economia.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) : n/a 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified docu ment : Proyecto de 
norma oficial mexicana PROY -NOM-106-SCFI-2016, "Características de diseño y 
condiciones de uso de la contraseña oficial"  (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY -NOM-
106-SCFI-2016: Design characteristics and conditions for use of the officia l countermark) 
(11 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the 
design characteristics and conditions for use of the official countermark for Mexican Official 
Standards and, where appropriate , Mexican Standards, in accordance with the Federal Law 
on Metrology and Standardization.  
The text seeks to ensure that the official countermark is used to show consumers or users 
that products or services are in conformity with Mexican Official Standards an d, where 
appropriate , Mexican Standards.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The notified text is applicable throughout the United Mexican States to natural 
and legal persons engaged in the manufacture, pr ocessing, packaging, labelling or 
importation of products or in the provision of services, that are subject to compliance wi th 
Mexican Official Standards and , in certain cases, Mexican Standards.  
8. Relevant documents : - G/TBT/N/MEX/330  
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  9. Proposed date of adoption : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard will be adopted 
upon its publication in the Official Journal as a final Mexican Official Standard.  
Proposed date of entry into force : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard will enter 
into force 180 calendar  days following its publication in the Official Journal as a final 
standard.  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days  from 1 November 2 016. 
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addre sses, if available, of other body:  
Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normatividad  
Dirección General de Normas  
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729 9100, Ext. 43244.  
Fax: (+52) 55 5520  9715 
Website: http://www.economia -noms.gob.mx/?P=144  
Email: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or sofia.pacheco@economia.gob.mx  
Text available online at: 
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5459260&fecha=01/11/2016  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2016/TBT/MEX/16_461 1_00_s.pdf