. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/MEX/91/Add.1 
10 March 2004  
 
(04-1057) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:   Spanish 
   
NOTIFICATION 
Addendum
 
   The following communication, dated 4 March 2004, is circulated at the request of the delegation of Mexico
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Resolution Amending Emergency Mexican Official Standard NOM-EM-010-SCFI-2003 , 
"Trailers and Semi-Trailers, Safety Specifications", published in the  
Diario Oficial de la Federación (Official Journal ) 
on 23 December 2003  
 
 The Government of Mexico hereby informs Members of the World Trade Organization 
(WTO) Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade that  the Ministry of the Economy has decided to 
amend Emergency Mexican Offi cial Standard NOM-EM-010-SCFI-2003, as published in the Diario 
Oficial de la Federación (Official Journal) on 23 December 2003 and circulated by the World Trade 
Organization as a notification with the symbol G/TBT/N/MEX/91 and dated 14 January 2004. The 
amendment to this technical regulation resulted from  the need for some changes to be made to its 
content in order to make its implementati on simpler, clearer and more consistent. 
  With a view to ensuring full compliance with Mexico's transparency obligations, the changes 
made to the text of Emergency Mexican Offi cial Standard NOM-EM-010-SCFI-2003 are set out 
hereunder: 
 (a) Paragraph 1.6 was added to Chapter 1 (“Purpose and Scope of Application”); 
 (b) Point 4.1.1 of paragraph 4.1 (“Trailers and Semi-Trailers”) was amended; points 4.1.2 
(“Rims and tyres”) and 4.1.4 (“Lighting system”) were deleted and point 4.1.3 
(“Brake system”) became 4.1.2. It should be noted that the following changes were 
made to the latter point: the original su bparagraph 4.1.3.1 (“Air tank capacity”) was 
deleted and the numbering of the other s ubparagraphs, all of wh ich were amended, 
was adjusted accordingly (subparagraph 4. 1.3.2 becoming subpara graph 4.1.2.1 and 
so forth); 
 (c) Point 5.1.1.1 (“Axles and suspension”) was amended;  (d) Paragraph 6.1 (“Specification plate”) was amended, and 
 (e) Chapter 7 (“Conformity assessment”) was amended. 
The text of this Regulation and the amendmen t thereto are available in Spanish on the Web 
site http://www.economia.gob.mx/?P=144
 and from the National Enquiry Point, the contact details of 
which are as follows:  G/TBT/N/MEX/91/Add.1 
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WTO Enquiry Point General Directorate of Standards (DGN)  Ministry of the Economy Puente de Tecamachalco 6 Col. Lomas de Tecamachalco, Sección Fuentes 
Naucalpan, Edo. de México, C.P.  53950 
Tel.:  (5255) 5729-9300, ext. 4103 and 4156 Fax:  (5255) 5520-9715 
E-mail:  cidgn@economia.gob.mx
 
 
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