G/TBT/N/MEX/265  
12 July 2013  
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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 Economía  (Ministry of the Economy) and Secretaría 
de Comunicaciones y Transportes  (Ministry of Communications and Transport) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and e-mail 
and website addresses, if available) of ag ency or authority designated to handle 
comments regarding the notification shall be indicated if diffe rent from above: 
Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normalización de Telecomunicaciones   
(National Advisory Committee on Standardization for Telecommunications) 
Insurgentes sur No. 1143, piso 8 
Col. Nochebuena, Delegación Benito Juárez 
Código postal 03720, México, D.F. E-mail: mario.fromow@cft.gob.mx , allopez@cft.gob.mx  and rtopete@cft.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.cft.gob.mx:8080/portal  
Tel.: (+52) 55 5015-4005 
 Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normalizac ión de Seguridad al Usuario, Información 
Comercial y Prácticas de Comercio  (National Advisory Committee on Standardization 
for User Safety, Commercial Information and Trade Practices) Avenida Puente de Tecamachalco número 6 
Colonia Lomas de Tecamachalco, Sección Fuentes 
Naucalpan de Juárez Código postal 53950, Estado de México 
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729-9100, Ext. 43222 
Fax:  (+52) 55 5520-9715 
E-mail: rodrigo.arreguin@economia.gob.mx , liliana.samperio@economia.gob.mx  
and/or salvador.franco@economia.gob.mx  
Website: " http://www.economia.gob.mx/comuni dad-negocios/c ompetitividad-
normatividad/normalizacion " 
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): 
Televisions and set-top boxes  
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document: Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY-NOM-192-SCFI/SC T1-2013, Telecomunicaciones - Aparatos 
de televisión y decodificadores - Especificaciones  (Draft Mexican Official Standard 
PROY-NOM-192-SCFI/SCT1-2013: Telecommunications - Television sets and set-top boxes - Specifications) (9 pages, in Spanish). G/TBT/N/MEX/265 
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  6. Description of content: The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes 
the specifications for the televisions covere d therein which are marketed to the public 
throughout the territory of the United Mexican States. Televisions covered by this draft 
Mexican Official Standard must be equipped to receive, tune in to and reproduce, as a minimum, signals transmitted in accordance with Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Standard A/53. Furthermore, it is recommended that they 
are equipped to receive video signals in accordance with ATSC Standard A/72. 
Televisions must be equipped to receive, tune in to and reproduce DTTV 
(digital terrestrial television) signals, as well as to receive, tune in to and reproduce, 
as a minimum, HDTV (high-defi nition digital television) and SDTV (standard-definition 
digital television) signals. 
Set-top boxes that are marketed to the public throughout the territory of 
the United Mexican States must be equipped to receive, tune in to and reproduce using 
the NTSC-M analogue system, as a minimu m, signals transmitted in accordance 
with ATSC Standard A/53, as well as to receive video signals in accordance with ATSC Standard A/72. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Commercial information 
8. Relevant documents:  
- NOM-001-SCFI-1993: "Aparatos electrónicos - Aparatos electrónicos de uso 
doméstico alimentados por diferentes fuentes de energía eléctrica - Requisitos de seguridad y métodos de prueba para la aprobación de tipo" (Mexican Official 
Standard NOM-001-SCF1-1993: "Electronic equipment - Electronic equipment for 
domestic use, with various power sources - Safety requirements and test methods for type approval"), published in the Official Journal ( Diario Oficial de 
la Federación ) on 13 October 1993, and the Acuerdo por el que se aceptan como 
equivalentes a la NOM-001-SCFI-1993, "Aparatos electrónicos - Aparatos 
electrónicos de uso doméstico alimentados por diferentes fuentes de energía eléctrica - Requisitos de seguridad y métodos de prueba para la aprobación de 
tipo", y sus resultados de evaluación de la conformidad, los reglamentos técnicos 
y procedimientos para evaluación de la conformidad de los Estados Unidos de América y de Canadá  (Agreement accepting certain technical regulations and 
conformity assessment procedures from th e United States of America and Canada 
as equivalent to Mexican Official Standard NOM-001-SCF1-1993: "Electronic equipment - Electronic equipment for domestic use, with various power sources - Safety requirements and test methods for type approval" and 
the related conformity assessment results), published in the Official Journal 
on 17 August 2010;  
- NOM-024-SCFI-1998: "Información comercial para empaques, instructivos y 
garantías de los productos electrónicos, eléctricos y electrodomésticos"  
(Mexican Official Standard NOM-024-SCFI-1998: "Commercial information to be displayed on the packaging of and included in the instructions and 
guarantees for electronic, electrical and ho me electrical appliances"), published in 
the Official Journal on 15 January 1999; 
- A/53, ATSC Digital Television Standard - Part 1: Digital Television System; - A/53, ATSC Digital Television Standa rd - Part 2: RF/Transmission System 
Characteristics; 
- A/53, ATSC Digital Television Standard - Part 3: Service Multiplex and Transport 
Subsystem Characteristics; 
- A/53, ATSC Digital Television Standard - Part 4: MPEG-2 Video System 
Characteristics; 
- A/53, ATSC Digital Television Standard - Part 5: AC-3 Audio System 
Characteristics; 
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  - A/53, ATSC Digital Television Standard - Part 6: Enhanced AC-3 Audio System 
Characteristics; 
- ATSC, A/72, Part 1: Video System Characteristics of AVC in the ATSC Digital 
Television System; 
- ATSC, A/72, Part 2: AVC Video Transport Subsystem Characteristics; - Recommendation ITU-R BT.1306-3: Error-correction, data framing, modulation 
and emission methods for digital terrestrial television broadcasting. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Not applicable. 
60 calendar days after publication 
of the final Mexican Official Standard 
in the Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments: 2 September 2013 
11. National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail 
and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Secretaría de Economía 
Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normatividad Dirección General de Normas 
Tel: (+52) 55 5729-9100, Ext. 43217 
Fax: (+52) 55 5520-9715 
Website: " http://www.economia.gob.mx/comuni dad-negocios/c ompetitividad-
normatividad/normalizacion/catalogo-mexicano-de-normas " 
E-mail:  normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or jesus.figueroa@economia.gob.mx  
Text available online at: 
http://www.dof.gob.mx/index.p hp?year=2013&month=07&day=05 
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