G/TBT/N/MEX/296  
9 November 2015  
(15-5896)  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: Comisión Reguladora de Energía  (Energy Regulatory Commission) 
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:  
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): National 
tariff headings concerned: 2709 and 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from 
bituminous minerals, crude. 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document: Norma Oficial 
Mexicana de Emergencia NOM-EM-005-CRE-2015, Especificaciones de calidad de los 
petrolíferos  (Emergency Mexican Official Standard NOM-EM-005-CRE-2015, Quality 
specifications for petroleum products) (67 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content: The notified Emergency Standard is applicable to gasoline, jet 
fuel, automotive diesel, agricultural and marine diesel, industrial diesel, fuel oil, domestic 
diesel fuel, aviation gas, first-fill gasoline, intermediate fuel oil and LPG throughout the 
production and supply chain in national territory. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: The notified Emergency Standard has been issued in view of the possibility of 
a regulatory vacuum in this area. Such a vacuum would make it impossible to ensure that 
the petroleum products marketed in Mexico met quality specifications that prevented them 
posing a risk to human health, property and the environment; it would also make it impossible to guarantee their consistency with the quality specifications established by 
Mexico's trading partners. 
A mandatory technical regulation establishing specifications for the above-mentioned 
petroleum products is needed not only to promote the efficiency of petroleum product 
production, transport, storage, distribution and retail activities, but to safeguard the supply 
of such services, promote healthy competition in the sector, protect the interests of users, facilitate adequate national coverage and ensure the reliability, stability and safety of permitted activities. A regulatory framework ha s therefore been designed for this purpose. 
The urgent nature of the notified Standard reflects the need to prevent a regulatory 
vacuum, as of 2016, for persons subject to the obligation under Articles 78 and 79 of the Hydrocarbons Law, concerning the quality specifications for petroleum products and 
related testing methods. 
It is therefore necessary for the Energy Regu latory Commission to issue this emergency 
provision immediately in order to establish the quality specifications to be met by G/TBT/N/MEX/296 
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  petroleum products at each stage of the production and supply chain in national territory 
and, ultimately, to promote the efficiency of th ese activities, protect the interests of users, 
facilitate adequate national coverage and ensure the reliable, stable and safe supply of the 
services concerned. 
8. Relevant documents:  
 NMX-Z-12/2-1987, Muestreo para la inspección por atributos. Parte 2: Métodos de 
muestreo, tablas y gráficas  (Mexican Standard NMX-Z-12/2-1987, Sampling for 
inspection by attributes. Part 2: Sampling procedures, tables and graphs) 
 The foreign standards listed in Section 6 ("Test methods") of the notified text.  
9. Proposed date of adoption: - 
Proposed date of entry into force: 30 October 2015  
10. Final date for comments: - 
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  (Ministry of the Economy) 
Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normatividad  (Undersecretariat of Competitiveness and 
Standardization) 
Dirección General de Normas  (General Directorate of Standards) 
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729 9100, Ext. 43244 
Fax: (+52) 55 5520 9715 
Website: http://www.economia-noms.gob.mx/noms/inicio.do  
Email: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or sofia.pacheco@economia.gob.mx  
Text available online at: 
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.p hp?codigo=5413788&fecha=30/10/2015  
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