G/TBT/N/MEX/449  
22 February 2019  
(19-1042) 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, Director -General of the National Commission on Nuclear Safety 
and Safegua rds and Chair of the 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, c olonia Narvarte, código postal 03020, Ciudad de México, Tel. : 
5095 3246, Fax : 5590 6103, Email : ccnn_snys@cnsns.gob.mx  (Comments may be 
submitted to this authority for consideration under the terms of the relevant law)  
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) : Facilities 
handling open -source radioactive material  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma O ficial Mexicana NOM -003-NUCL -2018, "Clasificación de instalaciones que utilizan 
fuentes abiertas"  (Draft Mexican Official Standard NOM -003-NUCL -2018: "Classification of 
facilities that use open sources") (13 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard applies to facilities 
that handle open -source radioactive material . The standard does not apply to nuclear 
facilities . It establishes criteria for classifying facilities that handle open radioactive 
sources.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes criteria for classifying 
facilities that handle open radioactive sources according to the radiotoxicity of the sour ces, 
their activity and the processes to which they are subjected.  
8. Relevant documents : Mexican Official Standard NOM -041-NUCL -2013: "Límites anuales 
de incorporación y concentraciones en liberaciones " (the current standard or one replacing 
it)  G/TBT/N/MEX/449  
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  9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard will enter 
into force 60 calendar days from the day after its publication in the Official Journal as a 
final standard.  
10. Final da te for comments : 16 April 2 019 
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  (Ministry of the Economy)  
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@economia.gob.mx  
Text available at:  
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5550445&fecha=15/02/2019  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments /2019/TBT/MEX/19_0970_00_s.pdf