G/TBT/N/MEX/345  
19 January  2017 
(17-0350) 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 t he 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:  
Secretaría de Economía  (Ministry of the Economy)  
Dirección General de Normas  (Directorate -General of Standards)  
Av. Puente de Tecamachalco #6 , Col. Lomas de Tecamachalco  
Naucalpan de Juarez  
Estado de México  
Tel.: 5229 6100, Ext. 43200  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ ], 2.10. 1 [X], 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) : Jamming 
equipment used to block mobile phone signals, radio communications  and the transmission 
of images and other data (tariff heading 85 17) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Norma oficial 
mexicana de emergencia NOM -EM-018-SCFI-2016, Especificaciones y requerimientos de 
los equipos de bloqueo  de señales de telefonía celular, de radiocomunicación o de 
transmisión de datos e imagen dentro de centros de readaptación social, establecimientos 
penitenciarios o centros de internamiento para menores, federales o de las entidades 
federativas  (Emergency  Mexican Official Standard NOM -EM-018-SCFI-2016: Specifications 
and requirements for jamming equipment used to block mobile phone signals, radio 
communications and the transmission of images and other data within the confines of 
federal and state social re habilitation centres, prisons an d youth detention facilities 
(4 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified  amendment to the Emergency Standard concerns 
the import ation, marketing and distribution of signal -blocking equipment of any descrip tion 
that is to be installed within the confines of federal and state social rehabilitation centres, 
prisons and youth detention facilities, the technical specifications of which are set out  in 
Technical Provision IFT -010-2016: "Specifications and requirem ents for jamming 
equipment used to block mobile phone signals, radio communications and the transmission 
of images and other data within the confines of federal and state social rehabilitation 
centres, prisons and youth detention facilities", published in the Official Journal on 1 
August 2 016 through a Decision issued by the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT).  G/TBT/N/MEX/345  
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : This Emergency Mexican Of ficial Standard stipulates th at all jamming 
equipment that is used to block mobile phone signals, radio communications and the 
transmission of images and other data at the frequencies used to receive data on 
communications terminals  and that is to  be imported  into and  marketed and/or distributed 
within the United Me xican States  must comply with the minimum specifications and l imits 
and testing methods indicated in Technical Provision IFT -010-2016: "Specifications and 
requirements for jamming equipment used to block mobile phone signals , radio 
communications and the transmission of images and other data within the confines of 
federal and state social rehabilitation centres, prisons and youth detention facilities", 
published in the Official Journal on 1 August 2016 . 
The Standard seeks to protect communications by ensuring that equipment imported into  
and marketed on national territory does not cause interference that is harmful to other 
operating equipment and puts the telecommunications networks and services at risk, 
thereby guaranteeing the interoperability of  public  telecommunications networks.   
The Standard covers all jamming equipment of any description that, in the technical 
operating environment, blocks, cancels or permanently eliminates mobile phone signals, 
radio communications and  the transmission of images and other data within the confines of 
federal and state social rehabilitation centres, prisons and youth detention facilities.  
8. Relevant documents : Acuerdo mediante el cual el Pleno del Instituto Federal de 
Telecomunicaciones  expide la "Disposición Técnica IFT -010-2016: Especificaciones y 
requerimientos de los equipos de bloqueo de señales de telefonía celular, de 
radiocomunicación o de transmisión de datos e imagen dentro de centros de readaptación 
social, establecimientos pe nitenciarios o centros de internamiento para menores, federales 
o de las entidades federativas " (Decision of the Plenary Meeting of the Federal 
Telecommunications Institute issuing Technical Provision IFT -010-2016: "Specifications 
and requirements for jamm ing equipment used to block mobile phone signals, radio 
communications and the transmission of images and other data within the confines of 
federal and state social rehabilitation centres, prisons and youth detention facilities"), 
published in the Official  Journal on 1 August 2 016. 
9. Proposed date of adoption : - 
Proposed date of entry into force : This Emergency Mexican Official Standard will enter 
into force the day after its publication in the Official Journal and will remain in force for a 
period of six  months.  
10. Final date for comments : Not applicable  
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 Competit ividad y Normatividad  
Dirección General de Normas  
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729 9100, Ext. 43244  
Fax: (+52) 55 5520 9715  
Email: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or sofia. pacheco@economia.gob.mx  
Website:  
http://www.economia.gob.mx/comunidad -negocios/normalizacion/catalogo -mexicano -de-
normas  
Available online at: 
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5468828&fecha=10/01/2017  
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