G/TBT/N/MEX/439  
28 November 2018  
(18-7484) 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 Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales/Agencia de 
Seguridad, Energía y Ambiente  (Ministry of the Environment and Natural 
Resources/Safety, Energy and Environment Agency)  
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 Nacional de Normalización de Seguridad Industrial y Operativa y 
Protección al Medio Ambiente del Sector Hidrocarburos  (National Advisory Committee on 
Standardization for Industrial and Operational Safety and Environmental Protection in the 
Hydrocarbon Sector), located at Boulevard Adolfo Ruiz Cortines 4209,  Jardines en la 
Montaña, C.P. 14210, Delegación Tlalpan, Ciudad de México, Email: 
jose.trejo@asea.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) : Waste 
generated by the hydrocarbon sector (see Appendix A to the draft)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s)  of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY -NOM-001-ASEA -2018, Que establece los criterios para 
clasificar a los Residuos de Manejo Especial del Sector Hidrocarburos y determinar cuáles 
están sujetos a Plan de manejo ; el listado de los mismos, así como los elementos para la 
formulación y gestión de los Planes de Manejo de Residuos Peligrosos y de Manejo Especial 
del Sector Hidrocarburos  (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY -NOM-001-ASEA -2018, 
which establishes the criteria for classi fying special management waste in the 
hydrocarbon sector and for determining which forms of this waste are subject to a 
management plan, a list of the forms of special management waste subject to a 
management plan, and elements for the formulation and admi nistration of management 
plans for hazardous and special management waste in the hydrocarbon sector). (8 pages, 
in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard is applicable 
throughout national territory and is binding  on large generators of hazardous and special 
management waste from activities in the hydrocarbon sector, which are referred to in 
Section XI of Article 3 of the Law on the National Agency for Industrial Safety and 
Environmental Protection in the Hydrocarb on Sector.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the criteria for 
classifying special management waste in the hydrocarbon sector and for determining 
which forms of this waste are subject to a management plan, a list of the forms of special G/TBT/N/MEX/439  
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  management waste subject to a management plan, and elements for the formulation and 
administration of management plans for hazardous and special management waste in t he 
hydrocarbon sector.  
8. Relevant documents:  
• Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM -052-SEMARNAT -2005, Que establece las 
características, el procedimiento de identificación, clasificación y los listados de 
los Residuos Peligrosos . Published in the Official Journal on 23 June 2 006. 
• Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM -087-SEMARNAT -SSA1 -2002, Protección ambiental -
Salud ambiental - Residuos Peligrosos biológico -Infecciosos -Clasificación y 
especificaciones de manejo . Published in the Official Journal on 1 7 February 2 003. 
• Disposiciones administrativas de carácter general que establecen los lineamientos 
para la gestión integral de los Residuos de Manejo Especial del Sector 
Hidrocarburos . Published in the Official Journal on 2 May 2 018. 
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be de termined.  
Proposed date of entry into force : 60 calendar days after publication in the Official 
Journal  
10. Final date for comments : 20 January 2 019 
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)  
Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normatividad (Under -Secretariat for Competitiveness 
and Standardization)  
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@economi
a.gob.mx  
Text available at:  
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5544371&fecha=21/11/2018  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/MEX/18_6075_00_s.pdf