. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/MEX/214 
15 June 2011 
 (11-2933) 
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 (Ministry of Energy) 
Name and address (including telephone  and fax numbers, 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:  
Director General de la Comisión Nacional para el Uso Eficiente de la Energía (Director-General of the National Energy Efficiency Commission) 
Tel.: 3000-1000, Ext. 1237 E-mail: emiliano.pedraza@conuee.gob.mx  
Website: http://conuee.gob.mx/wb/  
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):   Energy consumption of 
equipment and appliances 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Catálogo de equipos 
y aparatos para los cuales los fabricantes, importadores, distribuidores y 
comercializadores deberán incluir inform ación sobre su consumo energético (Catalogue of 
equipment and appliances for which manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers are required to provide energy consumption information) (7 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   Equipment and appliances which require an energy supply to 
operate and which meet the criteria set out in the Regulations of the Law for the sustainable 
use of energy are required to display clear and visible energy consumption information. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
The notified Catalogue is issued for implementation as appropriate. 
For the purposes of the Law for the sustainabl e use of energy and its Regulations and 
notwithstanding the provisions of the app licable Mexican Official Standards, new 
equipment and appliances that need an ener gy supply to operate, are distributed or 
marketed in Mexico and are included in the notified Catalogue are required to display the 
following information clearly and visibly: G/TBT/N/MEX/214 
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   1. Energy consumption per unit of operating time; 
2. Standby mode energy consumption per unit of time, if applicable, and 
3. Quantity of product or service supplied by  the piece of equipment or appliance per 
unit of energy consumed, where applicable.  
8. Relevant documents:  
Ley para el Aprovechamiento Sustentable de la Energía  (Law for the sustainable use of 
energy);   
Reglamento de la Ley para el Aprovechamiento Sustentable de la Energía  (Regulations of 
the Law for the sustainable use of energy). 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  11 September 2010 
11 September 2011 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days after the date of circulation 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and website addresses,  if available of the 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/swb/es/economia/p_competitiv_normativ/  
Text available online at: 
http://dof.gob.mx/index.php? year=2010&month=09&day=10  and 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/tbt/MEX/11_1875_00_s.pdf