WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/MEX/205 
10 December 2010 
 (10-6683) 
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. 
Tel.: 5011 9240 or 5723 9300, Ext. 20808 or 18134 
E-mail: iflores@sct.gob.mx
 or irezaher@sct.gob  
 
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 06100, México D.F. Tel.: 5723 9300, Ext. 14267, or 5265 3290 Fax: 5265 3235 E-mail: antonio.tello@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):  Most frequently 
transported hazardous substances and materials 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document :  PROY–NOM–002–
SCT/2010, Listado de las substancias y materiales peligrosos más usualmente 
transportados  (Mexican Official Draft Standard PROY–NOM–002–SCT/2010:  List of the 
most frequently transported hazardous substan ces and materials) (198 pages, in Spanish). G/TBT/N/MEX/205 
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  6. Description of content:   Identification of hazardous substances and materials according to 
hazard class or division, UN Number assigned by the United Nations Organization and subsidiary risks, special provisions govern ing the transport of such substances and 
materials, instructions regarding packing and packaging, instructions  regarding the use of 
intermediate bulk containers and tanks and the corresponding special provisions, and 
determination of the Proper Shipping Name, pursuant to the requirements in Tables 1 
and 2 of the notified Mexican Official Draft Standard. 
Where the proper shipping name of a hazardous  substance or material is not expressly 
provided for in Tables 1 and 2 of the notified Draft Standard, the shipper is required to 
undertake the task of classification, referring to the generic descriptions listed in Table 4 of 
the Draft Standard and taking into account th e predominant hazard characteristics of the 
substance or material in question, as established through approved and accredited 
laboratory testing. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
To identify and classify the most frequent ly transported hazardous substances and 
materials according to hazard class or divisi on, subsidiary risks and UN Number, and to 
establish the special provisions governing the tr ansport of such substances and materials, 
the quantitative limitations with respect to  limited quantities and excepted quantities, the 
corresponding instructions regarding packi ng and packaging, packing and packaging 
methods, and the instructions relating to th e use of transport units, intermediate bulk 
containers and portable tanks and the relevant special provisions. 
The notified Draft Standard will be binding  on shippers, carriers and consignees of 
hazardous substances and materials transported on general communication routes by land, 
air or sea, within their areas of responsibility. 
8. Relevant documents: 
• Diario Oficial de la Federación  (Official Journal) of 1 November 2010:  
http://www.dof.gob.mx ; 
• Recommendations on the Transport of Da ngerous Goods – M odel Regulations, 
sixteenth revised edition, Chapter 3, United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2009;  
• International Maritime Dangerous  Goods (IMDG) Code, Part 4; 
• Annex 18 to the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation; 
• Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air, ICAO, 
Part 4. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Upon publication as a Mexican Official 
Standard in the Official Journal. 
60 calendar days after publication in the 
Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   30 December 2010  G/TBT/N/MEX/205 
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  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.gob.mx/swb/es/economia/p_Catalogo_Mexicano_Normas
 
E-mail: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or jesus.figueroa@economia.gob.mx  
 
Text also available in Spanish online at: 
http://www.dof.gob.mx/index. php?year=2010&month=11&day=01  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/tbt/MEX/10_4598_00_s.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/tbt/MEX/10_4598_01_s.pdf