. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/MEX/216 
25 August 2011  
 
(11-4215) 
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 Medio Ambien te y Recursos Naturales (Ministry of the 
Environment and Natural Resources) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and e-mail and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or au thority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:  
Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normalizaci ón de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales 
(National Advisory Committee on Standardi zation for the Environment and Natural 
Resources) Blvr. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines número 4209, 5o. piso Ala "B" Colonia Jardines en la Montaña 
Delegación Tlalpan, México, D.F. 
Código postal 14210 E-mail: cesar.chavez@semarnat.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.semarnat.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):  Special Management 
Waste and Urban Solid Waste 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  
PROY-NOM-161-SEMARNAT-2011, Que establece los criterios para clasificar a los 
residuos de manejo especial y determinar cuáles están sujetos a plan de manejo;  el listado 
de los mismos, el procedimiento para la inclus ión o exclusión a dicho listado;  así como los 
elementos y procedimientos para la fo rmulación de los planes de manejo (Draft Mexican 
Official Standard PROY-NOM-161-SEMARNAT-2011 establishing the criteria for classifying Special Management Waste and for determining which forms of this waste are subject to a Management Plan;  a list of the forms of Special Management Waste subject to a Management Plan and the procedure for in clusion on or exclusion from this list;  and 
elements and procedures for the formulation of Management Plans) (9 pages, in Spanish).  G/TBT/N/MEX/216 
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  6. Description of content:  
The notified text is mandatory for: - Large generators of Special Management Waste; 
- large generators of Urban Solid Waste;  and - large generators and producers, importer s, exporters, traders and distributors of 
products which, when disposed of, become  Special Management Waste subject to a 
Management Plan. 
Mining and metal industry waste is exclude d from the scope of the notified text. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
The notified text establishes the following: Criteria to be considered by the states when  making a request to the Ministry for the 
addition of other categories of  Special Management Waste; 
criteria for determining the Special Management Waste that will be subject to a 
Management Plan and the list of such forms of waste; 
criteria to be considered by the states when  making a request to the Ministry for the 
inclusion on or exclusion from the list of Special Management Waste subject to a 
Management Plan; 
elements and procedures regarding the prep aration of Management Plans for Special 
Management Waste;  and 
procedures to be followed by the states when requesting that Special Management Waste be 
included on or excluded from the list. 
8. Relevant documents:  -  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force: }60 calendar days after publication in the Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   20 October 2011 
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/swb/es/economia/p_Catalogo_Mexicano_Normas  
 
Text also available at:   http://dof.gob.mx/index.php? year=2011&month=08&day=22  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/tbt/MEX/11_2793_00_s.pdf