. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/MEX/218 
20 September 2011 
 (11-4533) 
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, 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 Standardiza tion 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 norma.morales@conuee.gob.mx  
Website: http://conuee.gob.mx/wb/  
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 applic able, otherwise national tariff heading.  
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Heat insulators for 
buildings 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  
PROY-NOM-018-ENER-2011, Aislantes térmicos para edificaciones.  Características y 
métodos de prueba  (Draft Mexican Official Standa rd PROY-NOM-018-ENER-2011:  Heat 
insulators for buildings.  Characteristics a nd test methods) (11 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:  The notified Standard  applies to domestically manufactured and 
imported products, components a nd elements with heat insulating properties which are used 
in roofs, ceilings and walls of buildings and which are manufactured and marketed for this 
purpose, without prejudice to other purposes. 
It does not apply to heat insulators for foundations. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
The notified Standard establishes the characteris tics of and test methods for heat-insulating 
products, components and elements for r oofs, ceilings and walls of buildings. 
8. Relevant documents:  - G/TBT/N/MEX/218 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Not applicable 
60 calendar days after publication as a final 
Standard in the Official Journal 
10. Final date for comments:   13 November 2011 
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 E-mail: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or jesus.figueroa@economia.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.economia.gob.mx/swb/es/economia/p_Catalogo_Mexicano_Normas  
Text available online at: 
http://dof.gob.mx/index.php? year=2011&month=09&day=15  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/tbt/MEX/11_3002_00_s.pdf