. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/MEX/171 
1 May 2009 
 (09-2117) 
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/171 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Mexico considers it necessary to give public notice of the extension of the above 
Emergency Mexican Official Standard in orde r to retain a regulatory instrument setting 
forth the specifications for the containment of classic dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic 
fever.  This involves an attack on the vector mosquito Aedes ægypti with new insecticides 
which reduce as far as possible the adverse effects on inhabitants of, and operators of the 
fumigation programmes under way in, the geographical areas exposed to this epidemic.  It is the responsibility of the Mexican Federal Government to establish the characteristics 
and/or specifications of products and processe s which could constitute a risk to human 
safety or harm human health. 
8. Relevant documents:   Diario Oficial de la Federación  (Official Journal) of 2 April 2009.  
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_1456_00_s.pdf