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ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/MEX/248 
18 December 2012 
 (12-6927) 
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 Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales  (Ministry of the 
Environment and Natural Resources) 
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 Normalizaci ón de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales  
(National Advisory Committee on Standardi zation for the Environment and Natural 
Resources) Blvr. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines número 4209, 5° piso, Ala "B"  
Fraccionamiento Jardines en la Montaña 
Delegación Tlalpan, México, D.F., código postal 14210 E-mail: sylvia.trevino@semarnat.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.semarnat.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 app licable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Certain chemicals 
(International Classification for Standards (ICS) code 71) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de Norma 
Oficial Mexicana NOM-165-SEMARNAT-2012, "Que establece la lista de sustancias sujetas a reporte para el registro de em isiones y transferencia de contaminantes" 
(Draft Mexican Official Standard NO M-165-SEMARNAT-2012 "Establishing the list of 
substances subject to reporting requirement s for the Pollutant Release and Transfer 
Register (PRTR)") (13 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:  The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the list of 
substances subject to federal reporting requirements for the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR), as well as the technical criteria and reporting thresholds of these substances. 
The draft Standard is binding throughout na tional territory on persons responsible for 
stationary sources falling under federal jurisd iction, entities generating hazardous waste in 
terms of the applicable provisions and an yone discharging wastewater into national 
receiving water bodies, where any of the substa nces on the list contained in this Mexican 
Official Standard is released or transferre d in quantities equal to or greater than the 
corresponding thresholds. G/TBT/N/MEX/248 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
To protect the environment and human health. 
8. Relevant documents:   - 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Not applicable. 
60 calendar days after publication of the final 
Mexican Official Standard in the Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   04 February 2013 
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=12&day=05  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/tbt/MEX/12_4763_00_s.pdf