WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/10.7/N/110 
12 June 2012  
 (12-3099) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
AGREEMENT REACHED BY A MEMBER WITH ANOTHER COUNTRY OR COUNTRIES 
ON ISSUES RELATED TO TECHNICAL REGULATIONS, STANDARDS 
OR CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES 
 
Notification 
  Under Article 10.7 of the Agreement "Whenever a Member has reached an agreement with any other country or countries on issues related to  technical regulations, standards or conformity 
assessment procedures which may have a significant effect on trade, at least one Member party to the agreement shall notify other Members through the Secr etariat of the products to be covered by the 
agreement and include a brief description of th e agreement."  The following notification under 
Article  10.7 has been received.   
1. Member notifying:  MEXICO  
2. Title of the bilateral or plurilateral Agreement:  Mutual Recognition Agreement 
between the Government of Canada and the G overnment of the United Mexican States for 
Conformity Assessment of Telecommunications Equipment.  
3. Parties to the Agreement:  Canada, Mexico   
4. Date of entry into force of Agreement:  1 June 2012  
5. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applic able, otherwise national tariff heading):  
The Agreement applies to conformity assessment of equipment that may be attached to a 
public telecommunications network and other equipment subject to telecommunications 
regulation, including wire and wireless equipmen t, and terrestrial and satellite equipment, 
whether or not connected to a public teleco mmunications network.  Equipment which can 
only be connected behind devices providing adequate network protection for a public 
telecommunications network may be excluded from the scope of testing it applies to 
network terminal attachment.  G/TBT/10.7/N/110 
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  6. Subject matter covered by the Agreement  (technical regulations, standards or 
conformity assessment procedures):  
- CS-03 Compliance Specification for Terminal Equipment, Terminal Systems, 
 Network Protection Devices, Connec tion Arrangements and Hearing Aids 
 Compatibility; 
- DC-01 Procedure for Declaration of C onformity and Registration of Terminal 
 Equipment; 
- NOM-083-SCT1-2002, "Telecommunications - Radio communication - Technical 
 specifications for transmitting equipment used in one way mobile radiolocation 
 services"; 
- NOM-084-SCT1-2002, "Telecommunications - Radio communication - Technical 
 specifications of transmitting equi pment used in specialized fleet 
 radiocommunication mobile services" (trunking); 
- NOM-088/1-SCT1-2002, "Telecommunications - Radiocommunication - 
 Microwave equipment for multi-channel systems in the fixed service point to point  and point to multipoint - Part 1: Radio multiple access" 
- NOM-088/2-SCT1-2002, "Telecommunications - Radiocommunication - 
 Microwave equipment for multi-channel systems in the fixed service point to point 
 and point to multipoint - Part 2: Transport"; - NOM-151-SCT1-1999, "Public network interface for terminal equipment"; 
- NOM-152-SCT1-1999, "Digital interface to  public networks (2.048 kbps digital 
 interface)"; 
- NOM-121-SCT1-2009, "Telecommunications - Radicommunication - Radio-
 communication systems employing spread spectrum techniques - 
 radiocommunication equipment with fre quency hopping and digital modulation 
 operating in the bands 902-928 MH z, 2400-2483.5 MHz and 5725-5850 MHz - 
 specifications, limits and test methods". 
7. Description of measures of Agreement:  The Agreement is intended to streamline 
conformity assessment for a wide range of telecommunications and telecommunications-related equipment and thereby to facilitate trade between the Parties.  The Agreement 
provides for the mutual recognition by the Parties of testing laboratories and mutual 
acceptance of the results of testing undertaken  by recognized testing laboratories in 
assessing conformity of equipment to those technical requirements, legislative and 
regulatory provisions, and administrative a rrangements that a Party has specified in 
Annex I of the Agreement pertaining to the t esting of equipment with respect to which 
compliance is mandatory.  
For greater clarity, the parties note that the Agreement shall not cover conformity 
assessment related to the electrical safety of telecommunications equipment or homologation. 
The Agreement provides for a transition period of 18 months following the date of entry 
into force, during which time the Parties w ill jointly undertake a confidence building work 
program in order to build trust and confiden ce in the Agreement.  During the transition 
period, neither Party will be required to accept test reports from testing laboratories of the 
other Party.  G/TBT/10.7/N/110 
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  8. Further information available from:   
http://dof.gob.mx/index.php? year=2012&month=05&day=28  
http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/h_sf06131.html  
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf05610.html  
http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/h_sf06138.html  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/tbt/MEX/12_2122_00_s.pdf  
 
 
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