. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/MEX/232 
30 May 2012 
 (12-2855) 
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 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 Normal ización en Materia de Hidrocarburos 
(National Advisory Committee on Standardization in the Field of Hydrocarbons) 
Avenida Insurgentes Sur número 890, piso 4 Colonia del Valle, Delegación Benito Juárez Código Postal 03100, México, D.F. Tel.: 50006000, Ext. 1130 
Fax: 50006253 
E-mail: iposadas@energia.gob.mx ;  mmendoza@energia.gob.mx ;  or 
michelrp@energia.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.energia.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):   Domestic cooking 
appliances (International Classification for Standards (ICS) code 97.100) 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  
PROY-NOM-010-SESH-2011, Apar atos domésticos para cocinar alimentos que utilizan 
Gas L.P. o Gas Natural.  Especificaciones y métodos de prueba (Draft Mexican Official 
Standard PROY-NOM-010-SESH-2011, Domestic  cooking appliances that use liquefied 
petroleum gas or natural gas.  Specifications  and test methods) (55 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   Domestic cooking appliances must be pilotless, except when 
fitted with safety pilots. 
If a product functions in accordance with two or  more classifications, it must comply with 
the specifications and test methods applicable to each classification. 
The methods and equipment mentioned in th e notified Standard constitute the minimum 
requirements for testing and may be substitu ted by new technologies or methods where 
these are substantially equivalent.  The measuring equipment and devices mentioned in the G/TBT/N/MEX/232 
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  Standard are included for information pur poses and are not exhaustive, and may be 
substituted by equivalent equipment that prov ides test results in the units or values 
specified. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
The notified Standard establishes the minimu m safety requirements, test methods and 
conformity assessment procedure for domestic cooking appliances powered by liquefied 
petroleum gas or natural gas. 
The Standard also applies to combined cooki ng appliances powered by liquefied petroleum 
gas or natural gas and electrical elements. 
The Standard does not apply to portable applia nces that are directly coupled to disposable 
containers. 
8. Relevant documents:  -  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Not applicable 
180 calendar days after publication in the 
Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   16 July 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://dof.gob.mx/index.php? year=2012&month=05&day=17  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/tbt/MEX/12_1916_00_s.pdf