G/TBT/N/MEX/266  
14 January 2014  
(14-0183)  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 telephone and fax numbers and 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 para la Preservación y Uso Racional de los 
Recursos Energéticos  (National Advisory Committee on Standardization for the 
Conservation and Rational Use of Energy Resources) Av. Revolución No. 1877, Colonia Loreto 
Delegación Alvaro Obregón 
C.P. 01090, México, D.F. Email: fernando.hernandez@conuee.gob.mx  and gabriel.marcoida@conuee.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.conuee.gob.mx  
3. Notified under Arti cle 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [  ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN wher e applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provid ed in addition, where applicable):  
Turbine-type vertical pumps with external vertical electric motors (International 
Classification for Standards (ICS) code 23.080) 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY-NOM-001-ENER-2013, Eficiencia energética de bombas verticales tipo turbina con motor externo eléc trico vertical. Límites y método de prueba 
(Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY-NOM-001-ENER-2013: Energy efficiency 
of turbine-type vertical pumps with external vertical electric motors. Limits and test method) (22 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:  The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes 
the minimum energy efficiency levels for tu rbine-type vertical pumps with external 
vertical electric motors and the test method for the laboratory verification of such 
efficiency. It applies only to turbine-type vertical pumps which have external vertical electric motors and the properties specified in this draft Standard and are distributed 
and sold in Mexico for use with clean water. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Energy-saving specifications; consumer and environmental protection. 
8. Relevant documents:  
- Norma Oficial Mexicana (Mexican Official Standard) NOM-008-SCFI-2002: Sistema 
general de unidades de medida  (General system of units of measurement); 
- ISO 3555: Centrifugal, mixed flow and axial pu mps - Code for acceptance tests - Class B. G/TBT/N/MEX/266 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Not applicable. 
90 days after its publication as a final 
Mexican Official Standard in the Diario 
Oficial de la Federación  (Official Journal). 
10. Final date for comments:  7 March 2014 
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 
Email: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or jesus.figueroa@economia.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.economia.gob.mx/comuni dad-negocios/c ompetitividad-
normatividad/normalizacion/catalogo-mexicano-de-normas  
Text available online at: 
http://www.dof.gob.mx/index.p hp?year=2014&month=01&day=06  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/tbt/MEX/14_0094_00_s.pdf