. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/MEX/194 
24 March 2010 
 (10-1622) 
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 Comunicaciones y Transportes (Ministry of 
Communications and Transport) 
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:  
Comités Consultivos Nacionales de Norma lización de Transporte Terrestre y de 
Transporte Aéreo (National Advisory Committees on Standardization for Land Transport 
and Air Transport)  
Xola y Avenida Universidad, 1er. piso Edificio "C" ala Oriente, Colonia Narvarte Delegación Benito Juárez 03028, México D.F., México 
Tel.: 5684 8831 or 5684 0188 
E-mail: elizalde@sct.gob.mx, iflor es@sct.gob.mx or rramirem@sct.gob.mx 
 
Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normaliz ación de Transporte Marítimo y Puertos  
(National Advisory Committee on Standardiza tion for Maritime Transport and Ports) 
Avenida Nuevo León 210, piso 19 
Colonia Hipódromo Condesa Delegación Cuauhtémoc 06100, México D.F., México Tel.: 5723 9300, Ext. 14267, or 5265 3157 E-mail: sveradia@sct.gob.mx  or mleyvaa@sct.gob.mx 
Website: http://www.sct.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):   Hazardous substances, 
materials and waste. G/TBT/N/MEX/194 
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  5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document :  
NOM-002/1-SCT/2009, Listado de las substancias y materiales peligrosos más usualmente transportados, instrucciones y uso de envases y embalajes, recipientes intermedios para 
gráneles (RIG's), grandes envases y embalajes, cisternas portátiles, contenedores de gas de elementos múltiples y contenedores para gr áneles para el transporte de materiales y 
residuos peligrosos (Mexican Official Standard NOM- 002/1-SCT/2009:  List of the most 
frequently transported hazardous substances and materials;  instructions regarding containers, packaging, intermediate bulk contai ners (IBC), large containers and packaging, 
portable tanks, multiple-element gas containe rs, and bulk containers used to transport 
hazardous materials and waste) (119 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The notified Mexican Official Standard is binding on shippers, 
carriers and consignees of hazardous substances, materials and waste transported by general land, sea and air communication routes.  It  is also binding on motor carriers, which 
shall only accept to transport hazardous substa nces, materials and waste in containers, 
packaging, intermediate bulk containers (IBC)  and portable tanks that have been selected 
by shippers and consignees in accordance with the regulations.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
To establish instructions for the use of contai ners, packaging, intermediate bulk containers 
(IBC), large containers and packaging, porta ble tanks, multiple-element gas containers, 
and bulk containers, and to dete rmine the requirements that must be met in order to ensure 
that hazardous substances and materials are p acked and transported as safely as possible. 
8. Relevant documents: 
• Diario Oficial de la Federación (Official Journal) of 4 March 2010:  
http://www.dof.gob.mx ; 
• Recommendations on the Transport of Da ngerous Goods – M odel Regulations, 
fifteenth revised edition, Part 4, United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2007;  
• International Maritime Dangerous  Goods (IMDG) Code, Part 4; 
• Annex 18 to the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation; 
• DOC. 9284-AN/905 Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous 
Goods by Air, ICAO (2005-2006), Part 4. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  }60 calendar days after publication in the 
Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   n/a 
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 
Website: http://www.economia-noms.gob.mx/?P=144
 
E-mail: normasomc@economia.gob.mx and/or figueroa@economia.gob.mx 
Text also available online at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/tbt/mex/10_1197_00_s.pdf