G/TBT/N/MEX/381  
27 November 2017  
(17-6472) 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 Economía  (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:  
Dirección General de Normas  (General Directorate of Standards)  
Av. Puente de Tecamachalco Núm. 6  
Col. Lomas de Tecamachalco, Sección Fuentes  
Naucalpan de Juárez, C.P. 53950, Estado de México  
Tel.: 52 29 61 00, Ext. 43244 and 43274, Fax : 55 20 97 15  
Email: sofia.pacheco@economia.gob.mx  and juan.rivera@economia.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) : 
Alcoholometers  (devices for measuring the level of alcohol in the blood) (national tariff 
heading 90268099)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY -NOM-214/2 -SCFI-2017 Instrumentos de Medición -
Alcoholí metros, Referenciales -Especificaciones y Métodos de Prueba  (Draft Mexican Official 
Standard PROY -NOM-214/2 -SCFI-2017: Measuring instruments - Reference 
alcoholometers - Specifications and test methods) (13 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard applies to alcohol 
measuring instruments imported into or marketed in Mexico which are used to detect or 
quantify alcohol in bodily fluids in order  to establish , for reference purposes, the quantity 
of ingested alcohol that is permitted for a given activity .  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The notified text establishes the performance criteria, test methods,  
assessment methods and verification procedure for reference alcoholometers.  
8. Relevant documents : n/a  
9. Proposed date of adoption : 60 calendar days after  publication as a final standard.  
Proposed date of entry into force : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard will enter 
into force 60 calendar days after its publication in the Official Journal as a final standard.  G/TBT/N/MEX/381  
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  10. Final date for comments : 15 January 2018 (60 calendar days after publication in the 
Official Journal on 17 November 2017).  
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.pacheco@economia.gob.mx  
jose.ramosr@economia.gob.mx  
Text available online at:  
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5504991&fecha=17/11/2017  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2017/TBT/MEX/17_5256_00_s.pdf