. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/MEX/190 
12 March 2010 
 (10-1346) 
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:  
Comité Consultivo Nacional de Norm alización de Transporte Terrestre  
(National Advisory Committee on Standardization for Land Transport) Calzada de las Bombas No. 411, 11o. piso 
Colonia Los Girasoles Código postal 04920, Delegación Coyoacán Tel.: 5684 0188 / 5684 1275 E-mail: elizalde@sct.gob.mx, jgicacere@sct.gob.mx and iflores@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):   Containers, packaging, 
and intermediate bul k containers (IBC). 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   
NOM-027-SCT2/2009, Especificaciones especiales y adicionales para los envases, embalajes, recipientes intermedios a granel,  cisternas portátiles y transporte de las 
substancias, materiales y residuos peligroso s de la división 5.2 peróxidos orgánicos 
(Mexican Official Standard NOM-027-SCT2/ 2009, Special and additional specifications 
for containers, packing, interm ediate bulk containers, and porta ble tanks used to transport 
Division 5.2 hazardous substances, materials and waste (organic peroxides)) (34 pages, in 
Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The notified Mexican Official Standard is binding on shippers, 
carriers and consignees of Division 5.2 hazardous  substances, materials and waste (organic 
peroxides) transported by ge neral land communication routes. 
Carriers shall agree to transport duly cl assified and packed Division 5.2 hazardous 
substances, materials and waste (organic peroxi des) and must check, during transportation, 
that the temperature of such products is as indicated by the shipper. G/TBT/N/MEX/190 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
To establish special and additional specifica tions for containers and/or packing, 
intermediate bulk containers (IBC), and porta ble tanks used to transport Division 5.2 
hazardous substances (organic peroxides), a nd specifications relating to classification, 
desensitization, temperature regulation (in cases where products are to be transported at a 
certain temperature) and type of transport. 
8. Relevant documents: 
• Diario Oficial de la Federación  (Official Journal) of 17 February 2010:  
http://www.dof.gob.mx  
• Recommendations on the Transport of Da ngerous Goods - Model Regulations, 
fifteenth revised edition, United Nations, Ne w York and Geneva, 2007.  Volume I, 
Chapter 2.5. 
• Globally Harmonized System of Classifica tion and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), 
first revised edition, United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2005.  Chapter 2.15. 
• Manual of Tests and Criteria, fourth revised edition, United Nations, New York 
and Geneva, 2003.  Parts II and III.  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  }60 calendar days after publication in the 
Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   n/a 
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-noms.gob.mx/?P=144
 
E-mail: normasomc@economia.gob.mx and/or figueroa@economia.gob.mx 
Text also available online at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/tbt/mex/10_1053_00_s.pdf