G/TBT/N/MEX/380  
27 November 2017  
(17-6471) 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 Economía  (Ministry of the Economy)  
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:  
Dirección General de Normas  (General Directorate of Standards)  
Av. Puente de Tecamachalco Núm. 6  
Col. Lomas de Tecamachalco, Sección Fuentes  
Naucalpan de Juárez, C.P. 53950, Estado de México  
Tel.: 52 29 61 00, Ext. 43244 and 43274, Fax : 55 20 97 15  
Email: sofia.pacheco@economia.gob.mx  and juan.rivera@economia.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) : 
Breathalysers (devices for measuring the level of alcohol in the  blood) (national tariff 
heading 90268099)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY -NOM-214/1 -SCFI-2017, Instrumentos de medición -
Alcoholímetros evidenciales -Especificaciones y métodos de prueba  (Draft Mexican Official 
Standard PROY-NOM-214/1 -SCFI-2017: Measuring instruments - Evidential breathalysers - 
Specifications and test methods) (16 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard applies t o evidential 
breathalysers that are imported into or marketed in the territory of the United Mexican 
States and used to detect and quantify alcohol in exhaled air . These devices are used to 
establish , for preventive, referential or police purposes,  the qua ntity of ingested alcohol 
that is permitted for a given activity.  
The notified text also establishes a method for determining the level of alcohol in the blood 
by measuring the amount of alcohol in exhaled air.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the performance 
criteria, test methods, assessment methods and verification procedures for evidential 
breathalysers . These devices use exhaled air to detec t and quantify alcohol with the 
accuracy required  for evidential purposes.  
8. Relevant documents : n/a  G/TBT/N/MEX/380  
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  9. Proposed date of adoption : 60 calendar days after publication as a final standard.  
Proposed date of entry into force : The notified draft Mexican Of ficial Standard will enter 
into force 60 calendar days after its publication in the Official Journal as a final standard.  
10. Final date for comments : 15 January 2 018 (60 days after the publication of the draft 
text in the Official Journal on 1 7 November 2017) 
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  
Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normativida d 
Dirección General de Normas  
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729 9100, Ext. 43217  
Fax: (+52) 55 5520 9715  
Website: http://www.economia -noms.gob.mx/?P=144  
Email: normasomc@economi a.gob.mx  and/or sofia.pacheco@economia.gob.mx  
jose.ramosr@economia.gob.mx  
Text available online at:  
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5504990&fecha=17/11/2017  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/20 17/TBT/MEX/17_5255_00_s.pdf