. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/MEX/203 
29 September 2010 
 (10-4956) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  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 Normalizaci ón para la Preservación y Uso Racional de los 
Recursos Energéticos (National Advisory Committee on Standardization for the 
Conservation and Rational Use of Energy Resources) 
Río Lerma 302, 5° Piso, Colonia Cuauhtémoc 
Delegación Cuauhtémoc, 06500, México, D.F. E-mail: fernando.hernandez@conuee.gob.mx
 / 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 applic able, otherwise national tariff heading.  
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   Lamps for general use. 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  
PROY-NOM-028-ENER-2010, Eficiencia energé tica de lámparas para uso general.  
Límites y métodos de prueba (Draft Mexican Official Standard 
PROY-NOM-028-ENER-2010:  Energy efficiency of lamps for general use.  Limits and test 
methods) (13 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   This draft Mexican Official Standard applies to lamps for general 
use that are used in residen tial, commercial, service and i ndustrial environments and for 
street lighting.  
Exceptions:  This draft Standard does not a pply to products covered by other Mexican 
Official Standards on energy efficiency  or to the following types of lamp: 
 
- Black light, anti-insect and infrared lamps;  lamps used in means of transport, for 
signalling, in mining activities and to stimulat e plant growth;  aquarium, shatterproof 
and traffic signal lamps;  lamps with an integrated reflector;  lamps used for 
entertainment purposes;  photo projection lamps;  lamps used for medical and therapeutic purposes. G/TBT/N/MEX/203 
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   - Incandescent lamps with a power rating no t exceeding 40W, used exclusively in 
household appliances such as ovens, microwav es, refrigerators, fans, extractor hoods, 
sewing machines and dryers. 
- Lamps with a rated voltage not exceeding 24V;  left-hand thread, reinforced filament, 
triple power and coloured lamps. 
- Decorative incandescent lamps with a powe r rating not exceeding 40W, such as those 
which are candle, flame, circle or gl obe-shaped, with any type of base. 
- Linear fluorescent lamps of less than 50cm in length, with a colour rendering index of 
90 or above, and a colour temperature exceed ing 7,000K, designed to operate at low 
temperatures;  ultraviolet and other special lamps. 
- Compact fluorescent lamps without an integrated ballast;  circular fluorescent lamps. 
- Low-pressure sodium vapour lamps;  LED and induction lamps. 
- Double terminal metal halide lamps.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
The notified text sets forth the minimum energy efficiency levels for lamps for general use 
that are used in residential,  commercial, service and industrial environments and for street 
lighting, and the test methods for these products. 
8. Relevant documents:  Diario Oficial de la Federación  (Official Journal) of 
9 September 2010.  Available at:  http://www.dof.gob.mx  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Upon publication as a Mexican Official Standard in the Official Journal. 
60 calendar days after publication in the 
Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   8 November 2010 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, 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_competitiv_normativ  
Text available online at: 
http://www.dof.gob.mx/index. php?year=2010&month=09&day=09  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/tbt/MEX/10_3670_00_s.pdf