G/TBT/N/MEX/403  
12 April 2018  
(18-2219) 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:  
Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normalización de la Secretaría de Economía , CCONNSE 
(National Advisory Committee on Standardization of the Ministry of the Economy) , Av. 
Puente de Tecamachalco No. 6, Col. Lomas de Tecamachalco, Sección Fuentes , Naucalpan 
de Juárez, C.P. 53950 , Estado de México ; Tel.: 52 29 61 00, Ext. : 43219 and 43235 ; 
Email: 
claudia.sama@economia.gob.mx  and consultapublica@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) : Lifts 
(hydraulic and traction) for passengers or freight ( goods  lifts, vehicle lifts and dumb  
waiters), permanently installed escalators and moving ramps and walkways, and their 
parts.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY -NOM-207-SCFI-2016 Mantenimiento de elevadores, 
escaleras, rampas y aceras electromecánicas y escaleras, rampas y aceras 
electromecánicas  (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY -NOM-207-SCFI-2016, 
Maintenance of lifts, escalators and moving ramps and walkways) (13 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard applies to natural 
and legal persons established in the United Mexican States who provide maintenance 
services for lifts (hydraulic and traction lifts or those using any other technology) for all 
types of passengers and freight (goods lifts, vehicle lifts, dumb  waiters), and permanently 
installed escalator s and moving ramps and walkw ays of domestic or foreign manufacture 
and marketed in the United Mexican States.  
It does not apply to maintenance services for radial, paternoster, rack and pinion, screw -
drive, mining and theatre lifts , appliances with automatic interlocking , bucket lifts, material 
hoists for civil engineering or building works, floating platforms for offshore exploitation or 
drilling, or lifts used for assembly.  G/TBT/N/MEX/403  
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the maintenance 
service requirements (technical and legal) applicable to  companies providing such services 
for lifts (hydraulic and traction lifts or those using any other technology) for all types of  
passengers or freight (goods lifts, vehicle lifts, dumb  waiters), and permanently installed 
escalators and moving ramps and walkways, in order to ensure the safety of technicians 
providing the services and users, through the proper functioning of equipmen t.  
8. Relevant documents:  
NOM-017-STPS-2008,  Equipo de protección personal – Selección, uso y manejo en los 
centros de trabajo  (Mexican Official Standard NOM -017-STPS-2008: Personal protective 
equipment – Selection, use and handling in the workplace), pu blished in the Official Journal 
on 9 December 2 008. 
NMX-Z-12/2-1987, Muestreo pa ra la inspección por atributos – Parte 2 : Métodos de 
muestreo, tablas y gráficas  (Mexican Standard NMX -Z-12/2-1987: Samplin g for inspection 
by attributes – Part 2 : Sampling procedures, tables and graphs) . Notice of entry into force 
published in the Official Journal on 2 8 October 1 987.  
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined.  
Proposed date of entry into force : 90 calendar days after its publication in the Official 
Journal as a final standard . 
10. Final date for comments : 5 June 2 018 
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. 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@economia.gob.mx  
Text available at:  
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5518142&fecha=05/04/2018  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/MEX/18_1948_00_s.pdf