G/TBT/N/MEX/267  
14 January 2014  
(14-0184)  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 governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  Secretaría de Energía  (Ministry of Energy) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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  (National Advisory Committee on Standardization 
for the Conservation and Rational Use of Energy Resources) Av. Revolución No. 1877, Colonia Loreto 
Delegación Alvaro Obregón 
C.P. 01090, México, D.F. Email: fernando.hernandez@conuee.gob.mx  and gabriel.marcoida@conuee.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.conuee.gob.mx  
3. Notified under Arti cle 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [  ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN wher e applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provid ed in addition, where applicable):  
Water pump motors (International Classification for Standards (ICS) code 23.080) 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  Proyecto 
de Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY-NOM-004-ENER-2013, Eficiencia energética para el conjunto motor-bomba, para bombeo de agua limpia de uso doméstico, en potencias de 0,180 kW (¼ HP) hasta 0,750 kW (1 HP). Límites, métodos de prueba y etiquetado 
(Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY-NOM-004-ENER-2013: Energy efficiency 
of motor-driven domestic clean water pumps, with an output of 0.180 kW (¼ HP) to 0.750 kW (1 HP). Limits, test methods and labelling) (20 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:  The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes 
the maximum energy consumption levels for domestic clean water pumps using 
single-phase squirrel-cage induction motors , the test methods for verifying compliance 
with these levels, and related public information labelling requirements. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Energy-saving specifications; consumer protection. 
8. Relevant documents:  
- Norma Oficial Mexicana (Mexican Official Standard) NOM-008-SCFI-2002: Sistema 
general de unidades de medida  (General system of units of measurement); G/TBT/N/MEX/267 
- 2 - 
   - Mexican Official Standard NOM-014-ENER-2004: Eficiencia energética de motores 
eléctricos de corriente alterna, monofásicos, de inducción, tipo jaula de ardilla, 
enfriados con aire, en potencia nominal de 0,180 kW a 1,500 kW. Límites, método 
de prueba y marcado  (Energy efficiency of air-cooled single-phase squirrel-cage 
electric AC induction motors with a rated output of 0.180 kW to 1.500 kW. Limits, test method and marking); 
- ISO 9906:2012: Rotodynamic pumps -- Hydraulic performance acceptance tests -- 
Grades 1, 2 and 3.  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Not applicable. 
60 days after its publication as a final 
Mexican Official Standard in the Diario 
Oficial de la Federación  (Official Journal). 
10. Final date for comments:  7 March 2014 
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresse s, if available, of other body: 
Secretaría de Economía 
Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normatividad 
Dirección General de Normas Tel.: +52 55 5229-6100, Ext. 43217 
Fax: +52 55 5520-9715 
Email: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or jesus.figueroa@economia.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.economia.gob.mx/comuni dad-negocios/c ompetitividad-
normatividad/normalizacion/catalogo-mexicano-de-normas  
Text available online at: 
http://www.dof.gob.mx/index.p hp?year=2014&month=01&day=06  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/tbt/MEX/14_0108_00_s.pdf