. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/MEX/83
7 October 2003
(03-5267)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated 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:   Ministry of Energy
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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:   National Enquiry
Point (General Directorate of Standards/Ministry of the Economy Enquiry Point).
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):  Systems, equipment and
installations for the reception, piping and re gasification of liquif ied natural gas (LNG).
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Mexican
Official Standard PROY-NOM-013-SECRE-2003.  Safety Requirements for the Design,
Construction, Operation and Maintenance of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Storage Plants
with Systems, Equipment and Installations for the Reception, Piping, Vaporization and
Delivery of LNG. (104 pages, in Spanish).
6. Description of content:   This draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the minimum
safety requirements for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of liquified
natural gas (LNG) storage plants with systems, equipment and installations for the
reception, piping, regasification and delivery of LNG.
The design, construction, operation and maintenance of the LNG plant shall fulfil
the minimum requirements established in this draft Standard.  This does not preclude the
use of systems, equipment, methods or instruments the quality, resistance, fire resistance,
effectiveness, structural integrity, durability and safety of which are equivalent or superior
to that specified in this same Standard.
As regards areas not covered in this draft Standard, such as systems and equipment
of a recent design, offshore plants or installations, or general technological innovations with
insufficient operational experience at internat ional level, the applicant must propose and
adequately justify, before the Energy Regulatory Commission, the technology it will apply
for such purposes, by providing documentation and technical references reflecting
internationally recognized practices and by satisfying, where appropriate, the requirementsset out in this Standard.G/TBT/N/MEX/83
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6. Description of content:  (cont'd)
Compliance with this draft Mexican Official Standard is mandatory throughout
Mexican territory for all LNG storage plants with systems, equipment and installations for
the reception, piping, regasification and delivery of LNG.
It should be noted that this draft Mexican Official Standard was preceded by
Emergency Mexican Official Standard NOM-EM-001-SECRE-2002, notified to the
members of the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade in G/TBT/N/MEX/33 and
G/TBT/N/MEX/33/Add.1, of September 2002 and February 2003 respectively.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
This draft Standard establishes the minimum safety requirements for the design,
construction, operation and maintenance of liquified natural gas (LNG) storage plants, as
well as the requirements to be met by systems, equipment and installations for the reception,
piping, regasification and delivery of LNG.  It also establishes the marking used to identify
different LNG containers, inspection and testing procedures, and specifications for variousaccessories such as pipes, valves, connections, pumps, compressors and tanks, etc. from
Mexico or abroad, for quality control and human safety purposes.
8. Relevant documents:  Diario Oficial de la Federación (Official Journal) of
19 September 2003.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:
Not applicable
10. Final date for comments:   18 November 2003
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X], or address, telephone and fax
numbers and E-mail and Web site addresses, if available, of other body:
Website:  www.economia.gob.mx/?P=85  (Standards catalogue)
E-mail:  cidgn@economia.gob.mx