G/TBT/N/MEX/383  
5 December  2017 
(17-6673) 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:  
Juan Eibenschutz Hartman - CCNN -SNyS  
Dr José María Barragán Número 779 - 4to. piso  
Col. Narvarte, C .P. 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) : - 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY -NOM-009-NUCL -2017, Determinació n y aplicación del índice 
de transporte para materiales radiactivos y del índice de seguridad con respecto a la 
criticidad para el transporte de sustancias fisionables (Draft Mexican Official Standard 
PROY -NOM-009-NUCL -2017 - Determination and application of the transport index for 
radioactive materials and of the criticality -safety index for the transport of fissile materials) 
(7 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard applies to transport 
units, packages, overpacks, containers and tanks to be used for the transport and storage -
in-transit of radioactive material, and unpackaged Low Specific Activity (LSA -I) material 
and Surface  Contaminated Objects (SCO -I). 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Establishes methods to determine the transport index and the criticality -safety 
index, as well as the safety requirements to be met for th e transport and storage -in-transit 
of radioactive material, taking into account these indexes.  
8. Relevant documents : NOM-008-SCFI-2002: Sistema general de unidades de medida  
(Mexican Official Standard NOM -008-SCFI-2002: General system of units of measur ement)   G/TBT/N/MEX/383  
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  9. Proposed date of adoption : 60 calendar days after publication in the Official Journal  
Proposed date of entry into force : 60 calendar days after publication in the Official 
Journal as an Official Standard  
10. Final date for comments : 3 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  (Ministry of the Economy)  
Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normatividad  (Under -Secretariat of Competitiveness 
and Standardization)  
Dirección General de Normas  (General Directorate of Standards)  
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729 9100, Ext. 43217  
Fax: (+52) 55 5520 9715  
Website: http://www.economia -noms.gob.mx/?P=144  
Email: normasomc@economia.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=5496018&fecha=04/09/2017  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2017/TBT/MEX/17_3938_00_s.pdf