. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/MEX/223 
7 December 2011 
 (11-6363) 
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 Economía (Ministry of the Economy) 
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 Normalizac ión de Seguridad al Usuario, Información 
Comercial y Prácticas de Comercio  
(National Advisory Committee on Standard ization for User Safety, Commercial 
Information and Trade Practices) Av. Puente de Tecamachalco No. 6 Col. Lomas de Tecamachalco, Sección Fuentes 
Naucalpan de Juárez 
Código postal 53950, Estado de México Tel.: 5729-9100, Ext. 43222 Fax: 5520-9715 E-mail: paola.martinez@economia.gob.mx ;  maria.medinam@economia.gob.mx  and/or 
 salvador.franco@economia.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.economia.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 applic able, otherwise national tariff heading.  
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Milk products and 
combined milk products (ICS 67.100) 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  
PROY-NOM-183-SCFI-2011, Producto lácteo y producto lácteo 
combinado-Denominaciones, especificaciones fisicoquímicas, información comercial y 
métodos de prueba  (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY-NOM-183-SCFI-2011, Milk 
products and combined milk products - Desc riptions, physicochemical specifications, 
commercial information and test methods) (23 pages, in Spanish) G/TBT/N/MEX/223 
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  6. Description of content:  This draft Mexican Official Standard covers the various types of 
milk product and combined milk product marketed in Mexico.  The trade descriptions of 
such products must be consistent with  those established in this Standard. 
For the purposes of this draft Standard, the pr oducts within its scope may not be described 
using their common names or be given descriptions based on the fundamental characteristics of their composition and na ture, or other similar descriptions. 
Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY- NOM-183-SCFI-2011 will cancel and replace 
Mexican Official Standard NOM-155-SCFI-2003, "Milk, milk formula and combined milk 
products - Descriptions, physicochemical speci fications, commercial information and test 
methods", published in the Offici al Journal on 12 September 2003. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To establish trade descriptions for the various types of milk product and combined milk 
product marketed in Mexico, the physicochemi cal specifications that these products must 
meet in order to carry such descriptions, th e test methods used to demonstrate their 
compliance, and the commercial information that  must be displayed on product packaging. 
8. Relevant documents:  - 
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:   27 January 2011 
11. Texts available from:  Na tional enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and 
fax numbers, e-mail and website addresse s, 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-noms.gob.mx/noms/inicio.do  
Also available at: 
http://dof.gob.mx/index.php? year=2011&month=11&day=29  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/tbt/MEX/11_4136_00_s.pdf