G/TBT/N/MEX/444  
19 December  2018 
(18-8041) 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  (Ministry of Energy)  
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 para la Preservación y Uso Racional de los 
Recursos Energéticos , CCNNPURRE (National Advisory Committee on Standardization for 
the Conservation and Rational Use of Ener gy Resources), Address : Av. Revolución No. 
1877, Colonia Loreto, Alcaldía Álvaro Obregón, Ciudad de México, C.P. 01090, Email: 
ybo.pulido@conuee.gob.mx  and norma.morales@conuee.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) : Lighting 
equipment that distributes, filters or controls light emitted by one or more light emitting 
diodes (LEDs) and includes all necessary accessories for mounting, protecting and 
operating those LEDs. (Tariff heading : 854140)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana, PROY -NOM-031-ENER -2018, Eficiencia energética para 
luminarios con led para iluminación de vialidades y áreas exteriores públicas  (Draft 
Mexican Official Standard PROY -NOM-031-ENER -2018: Energy efficiency of LED 
luminaires for the lighting of roads and highways and outdoor public areas . Specifications 
and test methods) (36 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified text sets out specifications and test methods that 
promote efficient energy use in LED luminaires intended for the lighting of roads and 
highways and outdoor public areas.  
It does not apply to products covered by other Mexican Official Standards on energy 
efficiency, or to those LED luminaires  
• whose e xclusive light source is screw -base LED bulbs;  
• that are for decorative or ornamental lighting of outdoor public areas;  
• that are for signalling;  
• that are colour changing or monochromatic (green, red, yellow, blue, etc.);  
that are to be installed in the ground, underwater, in classified or hazardous areas.  G/TBT/N/MEX/444  
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The draft Mexican Official Standard sets out specifications and test methods 
promoting efficient energy use in LED luminaires that are intended for the lighting of roads 
and highways and outdoor public areas and that are powered by mains electricity or other 
energy sources such as batteries, accumulators or self -generated energy, using AC or DC, 
with a rated voltage of  up to 480 V AC and up to 100 V DC.  
8. Relevant documents:  
• NOM-008-SCFI-2002, Sistema general de unidades de medida.  
• NMX-J-507/2 -ANCE -2013, Iluminación Fotometría para luminarios - Parte 2 : 
Métodos de prueba.  
• NMX-J-610/4 -5-ANCE -2013, Compatibilidad Electromagnética (EMC) Parte 4 -5: 
Técnicas de prueba y medición . Pruebas de inmunidad a impulsos por maniobra 
o descarga atmosférica.  
• NOM-024-SCFI-2013, Información comercial para empaques, instructivos y 
garantías de los productos electrónicos, eléctricos  y electrodomésticos.  
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined.  
Proposed date of entry into force : 90 calendar days after publication in the Official 
Journal as a final Mexican Official Standard  
10. Final date for comments : 15 February 2 019 
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)  
Dirección General de Normas  (Directorate -General of Standa rds) 
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@economi
a.gob.mx  
 
Text available at:  
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5546657&fecha=17/12/2018  
 
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