G/TBT/N/MEX/514  
27 July 2022 
(22-5680) 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 : Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normalización de la Secretaría de 
Economía , CCONNSE (National Advisory Committee on Standardization of the 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:  
Calle Pachuca #189, Piso 7, Col . Condesa, C.P. 06140, Demarcación Territorial 
Cuauhtémoc, CDMX, Tel. : (55) 57 29 91 00, Ext. 13245  
Email: dgn.industrialigera@economia.gob.mx  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], 3.2 [ ], 7.2 [ ], 
other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : Electric 
traction lifts  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : PROYECTO de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY -NOM-053-SE-2020,  Elevadores eléctricos de tracción para 
pasajeros y carga -Especificaciones de seguridad y métodos de prueba para equipos 
nuevos  (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY -NOM-053-SE-2020, Electric traction lifts 
for passengers and freight - Specifications and test methods for new equipment) (cancels 
draft Mexican Official Standard PROY -NOM-053-SCFI-2017 and will cancel Mexican Official 
Standard NOM -053-SCFI-2000) (31 pages, in Spanish ) 
6. Description of content : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the 
minimum safety specifications for electric traction lifts for passengers and freight installed 
within the territory of the United Mexican States . It also establishes  the test methods to 
be applied in order to check such specifications.  
Compliance with this draft Mexican Official Standard is the responsibility of the contractor 
and the contracting party.  
It does not apply to lifts known as cargo, radial, hydraulic, pat ernoster, rack and pinion, 
screw -drive, mining and theatre lifts, appliances with automatic chocks, bucket elevators 
and material hoists for civil engineering or building works, bucket elevators and material 
hoists for civil engineering or building works, lifts installed in ships, floating platforms for 
offshore exploitation or drilling, or lifts used for assembly and maintenance services . 
However, it could serve as a useful basis for such lifts.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent p roblems where 
applicable : Consumer information, labelling ; Protection of human health or safety  G/TBT/N/MEX/514  
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  8. Relevant documents:  
 Mexican Official Standard NOM -001-SEDE -2012, Instalaciones eléctricas (Utilización) , 
published in the Official Journal on 2 9 November 2 012. 
 Mexican Standard NMX -B-073-1984, Elevadores de pasajeros y de carga -Rieles guía . 
Notice of entry into force published in the Official Journal on 3 December 1 984. 
 Mexican Standard NMX -H-084-1983, Productos siderúrgicos -Torones y cables de acero . 
Notice of entry into force published in the Official Journal on 1 7 August 1 983. 
 Mexican Standard NMX -J-098-ANCE -2014, Sistemas eléctricos -Tensiones eléctricas 
normalizadas . Notice of entry into force published in the Official Journal on 1 6 June 2 015. 
· Mexican Standard NMX -Z-12/2-1987, Muestreo para la inspección por atributos . Parte 
2: Métodos de muestreo, tablas y gráficas . 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 : To be determined  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [ ] 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 Industria, Comercio y Competitividad  (Under -Secretariat of Industry, 
Trade and Competitiv eness)  
Dirección General de Normas (Directorate -General of Standards)  
Pachuca 189, Colonia Condesa,  
Demarcación territorial Cuauhtémoc,  
Ciudad de México, 06140  
Tel.: (+52 55) 5729 91 00, Ext. 13247 or 13264  
Email: tania.fosado@economia.gob.mx ; emeterio.mosso@economia.gob.mx  
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