. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/MEX/217 
20 September 2011 
 (11-4532) 
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 Economía (Ministry of the Economy) 
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:  
Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normalizac ión de Seguridad al Usuario, Información 
Comercial y Prácticas de Comercio  
(National Advisory Committee on Standard ization for User Safety, Commercial 
Information and Trade Practices) Av. Puente de Tecamachalco No. 6 Col. Lomas de Tecamachalco, Sección Fuentes 
Naucalpan de Juárez 
Código postal 53950, Estado de México Tel.: 57 29 93 00, Ext. 43207 Fax: 55 20 97 15 E-mail: hector.espindola@economia.gob.mx , 
 jose.fernandezdejauregui@economia.gob.mx  and/or 
 catarino.perez@economia.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.economia.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):   Pre-packaged products - 
Net content 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  
PROY-NOM-002-SCFI-2011, Productos preenvas ados - Contenido neto - Tolerancias y 
métodos de verificación (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY-NOM-002-SCFI-2011, 
Pre-packaged products - Net content - Toleranc es and verification methods) (8 pages, in 
Spanish) 
6. Description of content:  
- The notified draft Mexican Official Standard applies to both domestically 
manufactured and imported products marketed in Mexico. 
- It does not apply to bulk products.  G/TBT/N/MEX/217 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
The purpose of the notified text is to establish the tolerances and test methods for verifying 
the net content of pre-packaged products, and the sampling plans for verifying products that 
bear a declaration of net content in units of mass or volume.  
8. Relevant documents:  International Recommendation OIML R 87 2004:  Quantity of 
product in pre-packages  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Not applicable 
60 calendar days after publication as a final 
Standard in the Official Journal 
10. Final date for comments:   10 November 2011 
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_Catalogo_Mexicano_Normas  
Also available at: 
http://dof.gob.mx/index.php? year=2011&month=09&day=12  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/tbt/MEX/11_3001_00_s.pdf