. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/MEX/245 
8 October 2012 
 (12-5440) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original: Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated 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  (Ministry of Energy) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and e-mail 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 Norma lización en Materia de Hidrocarburos  
(National Advisory Committee on Standardization in the Field of Hydrocarbons) 
Insurgentes Sur número 890, piso 4 Colonia del Valle, Delegación Benito Juárez 03100, México, D.F. Tel.: (+52) 5000-6000, Ext. 1130 
Fax: (+52) 5000-6253 
E-mail: iposadas@energia.gob.mx , avazquez@energia.gob.mx  or 
michelrp@energia.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.sener.gob.mx  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [X], 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):   Low-pressure regulators 
for liquefied petroleum gas (HS tariff item number 73.21.11.99)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de Norma 
Oficial Mexicana PROY-NOM-015-SESH-2012, Reguladores de baja presión para 
Gas Licuado del Petróleo.  Espec ificaciones y métodos de prueba (Draft Mexican Official 
Standard PROY-NOM-015-SESH-2012:  Low-pres sure regulators for liquefied petroleum 
gas.  Specifications and test methods) (17 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:  The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the 
specifications, minimum safety requirements a nd test methods for regulators with a service 
pressure of between 2.48 kPa and 3.04 kPa used  in liquefied petroleum gas installations.  
It also establishes the information to be disp layed on the product and its packaging, and the 
relevant conformity assessment procedure. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
Human safety G/TBT/N/MEX/245 
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  8. Relevant documents:   - 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Not applicable. 
120 calendar days after publication of the final Mexican Official Standard in the Official Journal.  
10. Final date for comments:   19 November 2012  
11. Texts available from:  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 E-mail: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or jesus.figueroa@economia.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.economia.gob.mx/comunidad- negocios/normalizacion/catalogo-
mexicano-de-normas 
 
Text available online at: http://www.dof.gob.mx/index.php ?year=2012&month=09&day=20 
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