. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/MEX/166 
18 September 2008 
 (08-4344) 
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 Energía (Ministry of Energy) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web site 
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 Nuclear y Salvaguardas 
(National Advisory Committee on Standardiza tion for Nuclear Safety and Safeguards) 
Dr Barragán 779, 5° Piso, Colonia Narvarte Delegación Benito Juárez, 03020, México, D.F. Tel.: 50 95 32 50 
Fax: 55 90 61 03 
E-mail: ccnn_snys@cnsns.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):   Patients to whom 
radioactive material has been administered. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   PROYECTO de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY-NOM-013-NUCL -1995, Requerimientos de seguridad 
radiológica para egresar a pacientes a quien es se les ha administrado material radioactivo  
(Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY-NOM-013-NUCL-1995, Radiological safety 
requirements for the release of patients to whom radioactive material has been 
administered) (7 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content:   This draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the radiological 
safety requirements for the release of patients to whom radioactive material has been 
administered, so as to ensure the application of the radiological safety principles necessary 
to protect their family members and other members of the public.  This draft text should  be applied in all cases in which radioactive materi al in the form of open radioactive sources is 
administered to patients.  It does not establis h the quantity of radioactive material to be 
administered to patients, which is the shar ed responsibility of the attending physician and 
the physician specializing in nuclear medicine. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  - G/TBT/N/MEX/166 
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  8. Relevant documents:  Diario Oficial de la Federación  (Official Journal) of 
20 August 2008.  Available at http://www.dof.gob.mx
 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  }- 
10. Final date for comments:   19 October 2008 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web site addresses, if available of the other body: 
Dirección General de Normas de la Secretaría de Economía  
(General Directorate of Standards of the Ministry of the Economy) 
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729 9300, ext. 4 3221 
Fax: (+52) 55 5520 9715 
Web site: http://www.economia-noms.gob.mx/  
E-mail:  normasomc@economia.gob.mx  
and http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2008/tbt/MEX/08_2793_00_s.pdf