G/TBT/N/MEX/437  
23 November 2018  
(18-7395) 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 Energía, Comisión Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y 
Salvaguardias  (Ministry of Energy, National Commission on Nuclear Safety and 
Safeguards)  
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 Nuclear y Salvaguardias, CCNN -SNyS 
(Nation al Advisory Committee on Standardization for Nuclear Safety and Safeguards), 
located at Dr José María Barragán Número 779 - 4o. piso, Colonia Narvarte, Código postal 
03020, Ciudad de México, Tel. : 5095 3246, Fax : 5590 6103, Email : 
ccnn_snys@cnsns.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) : Ionizing 
radiation sources  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY NOM -039-NUCL -2018, Criterios para la exención de fuentes 
de radiación ionizante o prácticas que las utilic en (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY 
NOM-039-NUCL -2018: Criteria for the exemption of ionizing radiation sources or practices 
that use them) (24 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Standard applies to practices, ionizing 
radiation sources contained in consumer products and ionizing radiation sources involved 
in practices, which, due to their characteristics, may be exempted from all or some of the 
regulatory controls established by the National Commission on Nuclear Safety and 
Safeguards.  
The Standard does not apply to ionizing radiation -generating equipment used for medical 
diagnostic purposes ; naturally occurring radioactive material ; the transport of radioactive 
material ; the importation or exportation of ionizing radiation sources ; medical uses of 
ionizing radiation sources ; the manufacture, acquisition, transfer, importation and/or 
exportation of radiopharmaceuticals ; the administration of radioactive material to animals 
for diagnostic, treatment and/or research p urposes ; the manufacture, acquisition and 
transfer of ionizing radiation sources ; contaminated objects or the final disposal, recycling 
or reuse of sources ; or parts for ionizing radiation -generating equipment.  G/TBT/N/MEX/437  
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the criteria for the 
exemption of practices and sources of ionizing radiation from some or all regulatory 
conditions.  
8. Relevant documents : - 
9. Propose d date of adoption : To be determined.  
Proposed date of entry into force : 60 calendar days from the day after its publication 
in the Official Journal as a final standard.  
10. Final date for comments : 14 December 2 018 
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@economia.gob.mx  
Text available at:  
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5543938&fecha=15/11/2018  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/MEX/18_6038_00_s.pdf