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ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/MEX/240 
24 August 2012 
 (12-4592) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated 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 y Secretaría de Economía  (Ministry of Energy 
and Ministry of the Economy) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and e-mail 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 Normalizaci ón para la Preservación y el Uso Racional de 
los Recursos Energéticos  (National Advisory Committee on Standardization for the 
Conservation and Rational Use of Energy Resources) Río Lerma 302, 5o. piso Colonia Cuauhtémoc, Delegación Cuauhtémoc 
06500, México, D.F. 
E-mail: fernando.hernandez@conuee.gob.mx  and norma.morales@conuee.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.sener.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):  Fluorescent lamps 
(International Classification for St andards (ICS) c ode 29.140.30) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de Norma 
Oficial Mexicana PROY-NOM-017-ENER/SCFI-2012,  Eficiencia energética y requisitos de 
seguridad al usuario de lámparas fluorescen tes compactas autobalastradas.  Límites y 
métodos de prueba  (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY-NOM-017-ENER/SCFI-2012:  
Energy efficiency of and user safety requi rements for self-ballasted compact fluorescent 
lamps.  Limits and test methods) (32 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the 
minimum luminous efficacy levels, safety re quirements, relevant test methods, and 
commercial information requirements for self-ballasted compact fluorescent lamps. 
It applies to all self-ballasted compact fluor escent lamps with or without housing and with 
an integrated reflector, with any form of base, and with electrical supply voltages from 
100V to 277V AC and of 50 Hz or 60 Hz, wh ich are manufactured in, imported into or 
marketed in national territory. 
It does not apply to self-ballasted compact fl uorescent lamps with control fixtures such as 
photocells, motion sensors, remote controls a nd dimmer devices incorporated in the body of 
the lamp or to modular compact fluorescent lamps. G/TBT/N/MEX/240 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
Safety and commercial information. 
8. Relevant documents:   IEC 60969, "Self-ballasted lamps for general lighting services - 
Performance requirements".  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Not applicable. 
60 calendar days after the publication of the final 
Mexican Official Standard in the Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   15 October 2012 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and e-mail 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 E-mail: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or jesus.figueroa@economia.gob.mx  
Website: " http://www.economia.gob.mx/comunidad-negocios/normalizacion/catalogo-
mexicano-de-normas " 
 
Text available online at: http://www.dof.gob.mx/index. php?year=2012&month=08&day=15  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/tbt/MEX/12_3381_00_s.pdf