. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/MEX/172 
1 May 2009 
 (09-2118) 
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 Salud (Ministry of Health) 
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 Normalizac ión de Prevención y Control de Enfermedades
(National Advisory Committee on Standardi zation for Disease Prevention and Control) 
Centro Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiológica y Control de Enfermedades  
(National Centre for Epidemiologi cal Surveillance and Disease Control) 
Benjamín Franklin No. 132, 1er. Piso 
Col. Escandón, Deleg. Miguel Hidalgo 
Distrito Federal, Mexico Tel.: (5255) 2614-6461 E-mail: jiarre1@hotmail.com
 
Website: http://portal.salud.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):   The notified draft 
Emergency Standard establishes the specificati ons, criteria and procedures for reducing the 
risk of infection, disease, complications and death from vector-borne diseases. 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  
NOM-EM-003-SSA2-2008, Para la vigilancia  epidemiológica, prevención y control de 
enfermedades transmitidas por vector (Emergency Mexican Official Standard 
NOM-EM-003-SSA2-2008 on the epidemiological surveillance, prevention and control of 
vector-borne diseases) (35 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified Emergency Standard  is binding throughout national 
territory on health service personnel in the public , social and private sectors of the National 
Health System who are involved in the surveillance, prevention and control of the diseases 
covered by this Standard. G/TBT/N/MEX/172 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
The notified Emergency Standard addresses gene ral aspects pertaining to the surveillance, 
prevention, protection and control of th e six diseases covered and sets forth specific 
information on each.  This Standard is also in tended to assist the functional integration into 
the National Health System of activities implem ented in the framework  of decentralization 
and the current National Health Programme. 
In the light of the ongoing development of new methods and techniques, this Emergency 
Standard recognizes the need for basic research , with particular emphasis on risk factors 
and the operational activities which need be improved and incorporated in due course as surveillance, prevention and control procedures.   It encourages the formation of national 
groups of experts in insecticides, parasitolo gy, virology, community participation and 
medical entomology as well as clinical doctors and epidemiologists. 
8. Relevant documents:   Diario Oficial de la Federación  (Official Journal) of 
30 September 2008.  Available at:  http://www.dof.gob.mx . 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force: }The notified Standard will enter into force 
the day after publication in the Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   Not applicable 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, E-mail and website addresses,  if available, of other body:  
General Directorate of Standards of the Ministry of the Economy 
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729-9300, Ext. 43217 
Fax: (+52) 55 5520-9715 
E-mail: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.economia-noms.gob.mx/  
Text available at:  http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2009/tbt/mex/09_1457_00_s.pdf