G/TBT/N/MEX/438  
28 November 2018  
(18-7483) 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/Comisión Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y 
Salvaguardias  (Ministry of Energy/National Commission on Nuclear Safety and 
Safeguards)  
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:  
Juan Eibenschutz Hartman, Chair, Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normalización de 
Seguridad Nuclear y  Salvaguardias, CCNN -SNyS (National Advisory Committee on 
Standardization for Nuclear Safety and Safeguards), located at Dr José María Barragán 
Número 779 -4to. piso, Colonia Narvarte, Código Postal 03020, Ciudad de México, Tel. : 
5095 3246, Fax : 5590 6103, Email : ccnn_snys@cnsns.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) : 
Radioactive materials and packages containing them  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY -NOM-011-NUCL -2018, "Límites de actividad y clasific ación 
de materiales radiactivos y bultos para efectos de transporte " (Draft Mexican Official 
Standard PROY -NOM-011-NUCL -2018: Activity limits and classification of radioactive 
material and packages for transport purposes) (24 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Descri ption of content : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard is applicable to all 
radioactive materials and packages containing them intended to be transported in the 
national territory.  
It sets the A1 value for special form radioactive material and the A2 value for non -special 
form radioactive material . It also sets the activity concentration limits for radioactive 
material and the activity limits for consignments that permit their exemption from 
regulatory requirements during their transport.  
7. Object ive and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : To set the basic A1 and A2 values for radionuclides and classify radioactive 
materials and the packages containing them with a view to their safe transport.  
To set activity limits  for the radioactive content of excluded packages and the means of 
transport of low specific activity radioactive material and contaminated objects, as well 
as the type of package that must be used for a given means of transport.  
8. Relevant documents : Not applicable  G/TBT/N/MEX/438  
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  9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force : 60 calendar days from the day after its publication 
as a final standard in the Official Journal  
10. Final date for comments : 15 January 2 019 
11. Texts avail able 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 for  Competitiveness 
and Standardization)  
Dirección General de Normas  (Directorate -General 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@economi
a.gob.mx  
Text avai lable at:  
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5544107&fecha=16/11/2018  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/MEX/18_6074_00_s.pdf