G/TBT/N/MEX/375  
16 October  2017 
(17-5568) 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  (Ministry of Energy)  
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 para la Preservación y Uso Racional de los 
Recursos Energéticos , CCNNPURRE (National Advisory Committee on Standardization for 
the Conservation and Rational Use of Ener gy Resources) , Av. Revolución No. 1877, Colonia 
Loreto, Delegación Álvaro Obregón, Ciudad de México, C.P. 01090, Email: 
ybo.pulido@conuee.gob.mx  and norma.morales@conuee.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) : National 
tariff heading 84158299 : Condensing and evaporator units  for refrigeration purposes  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY -NOM-012-ENER -2017, Eficiencia energética de 
refrigeradores y congeladores electrodomésticos . Límites, métodos de prueba y etiquetado . 
Límites, métodos de prueba y etiquetado  (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY -NOM-012-
ENER -2017, Energy efficiency of condensing and evaporator units for refrigeratio n 
purposes . Limits, test methods and labelling) (36 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard applies to:  
(a) Condensing units for refrigeration purposes that are made for installation outdoors or 
indoors,  with a cooling output of between 746 W (2,547 BTU/h) and 40,000 W (136,607 
BTU/h) at average temperature and up to 13,000 W (44,397 BTU/h) at low temperature.  
(b) Low -profile, direct expansion evaporator units for refrigeration purposes intended to 
operate with a refrigerant in humid and/or dry conditions, with a nominal cooling capacity 
of between 0.3 kW and 12.0 kW.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard es tablishes the energy efficiency 
requirements to be met by condensing and evaporator units, as well as the test methods 
to ensure their compliance, and the labelling requirements and the conformity assessment 
procedure for such products.  
8. Relevant documents : NOM-008-SCFI-2002, Sistema general de unidades de medida  
(Mexican Official Standard NOM -008-SCFI-2002: General system of units of measurement)  G/TBT/N/MEX/375  
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  9. Proposed date of adoption : 240 calendar days from 9 October 2 017 
Proposed date of entry into forc e: 240 calendar days after publication in the Official 
Journal.  
10. Final date for comments : Sixty calendar days after publication in the Official Journal ( 9 
October 2 017) 
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  
Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normatividad  
Dirección General de Normas  
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729 9100, Ext. 43217  
Fax: (+52) 55 5520 9715  
Website: http://www.economia -noms.gob.mx/?P=144  
Email: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or sofia.pach eco@economia.gob.mx  
jose.ramosr@economia.gob.mx  
Text available online at:  
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detal le.php?codigo=5500226&fecha=09/10/2017  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2017/TBT/MEX/17_4650_00_s.pdf