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ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/MEX/220 
1 November 2011 
 (11-5522) 
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 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 Normalizaci ón para la Preservación y Uso Racional de los 
Recursos Energéticos  (National Advisory Committee on Standardization 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 applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.  
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Household refrigerators 
and freezers (International Classification for Standards (ICS) code 97.040) 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  
PROY-NOM-015-ENER-2011, Eficiencia energ ética de refrigeradores y congeladores 
electrodomésticos.  Límites, mé todos de prueba y etiquetado (Draft Mexican Official 
Standard PROY-NOM-015-ENER-2011:  Energy e fficiency of household refrigerators and 
freezers.  Limits, test methods and labelling) (55 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The notified draft Mexican Official Standard applies to household 
refrigerators, household refrigerator-freezers of up to 1,104 cubic decimetres (39 cubic feet) 
and household freezers of up to 850 cubic d ecimetres (30 cubic feet) using hermetic 
motor-driven compressors, which are marketed in Mexico. 
A sample of three appliances is required fo r the testing of imported products.  The 
conformity assessment programme is applicable to domestically made and imported 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
This draft Standard establishes the maximum energy consumption limits for household refrigerators and freezers using hermetic mo tor-driven compressors, specifies the test 
methods for determining such energy consum ption and the total refrigerated volume, and 
stipulates the particulars for inclusion on the energy consumption label. 
8. Relevant documents:   -  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Not applicable 
90 calendar days after publication in the 
Official Journal 
10. Final date for comments:   23 December 2011 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and e-mail and website addresses, if available, of 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=10&day=25  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/tbt/MEX/11_3573_00_s.pdf