. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/MEX/224 
30 January 2012 
 (12-0576) 
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 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, 5o. piso Colonia Cuauhtémoc, Delegación Cuauhtémoc 06500, México, D.F. 
E-mail: fernando.hernandez@conuee.gob.mx  and leonel.diaz@conuee.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):   Light-emitting 
diode (LED) lamps (International Classifica tion for Standards (IC S) code 29.140) 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  
PROY-NOM-030-ENER-2011, Eficacia luminosa de  lámparas de diodos emisores de luz 
(LED) integradas para iluminación genera l.  Límites y métodos de prueba (Draft Mexican 
Official Standard PROY-NOM-030-ENER-2011:  Luminous efficacy of integrated light-emitting diode (LED) lamps for general li ghting services.  Limits and test methods) 
(23 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The notified draft Mexican Official Standard applies to all 
integrated, omni-directional/directional LED lamps for general lighting services, with 
supply voltages from 100V to 277V AC and of  50 Hz or 60 Hz and manufactured or 
imported for marketing in Mexico. 
This draft Standard does not apply to produc ts covered by any other Mexican Official 
Standard on energy efficiency or to LED luminaires or modules. 
Products which fall within the scope of this  draft Standard and are manufactured or 
imported prior to its entry into force (upon pu blication in the Official Journal) may be 
marketed in Mexico within the following 90 calendar days. G/TBT/N/MEX/224 
Page 2  
 
  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the specifications for integrated 
LED lamps for general lighting services and the test methods for verifying compliance with 
these specifications.  Furthermore, the Standa rd specifies the information (the essential 
technical characteristics corresponding to inte nded use) required to be displayed on the 
products covered by this draft Standard and ma rketed in Mexico, and responds to the need 
for such products to be conducive to energy efficiency and saving. 
8. Relevant documents:   - 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Not applicable 
60 calendar days after the publication of its 
final version in the Official Journal 
10. Final date for comments:   19 March 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-noms.gob.mx/noms/inicio.do  
 
Text available online at: http://dof.gob.mx/index.php? year=2012&month=01&day=20  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/tbt/MEX/12_0300_00_s.pdf