. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/MEX/64
3 July 2003
(03-3574)
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 the Economy
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:   General
Directorate of Standard s/Ministry of the Economy (DGN/SE) 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):  Products in general
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Mexican
Official Standard PROY-NOM-050-SCFI-2003, Commercial Information - General Product
Labelling  (8 pages, in Spanish).
6. Description of content:  This draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the labelling
regulations with regard to the commercial information to be displayed on products of
domestic and foreign manufacture for consumption in Mexico and defines the
characteristics of such information.
This draft Standard applies to all products of domestic and foreign manufacture for
consumption in Mexico, with the exception of the following:
(a) Products subject to commercial information provisions in Mexican official
standards, specifications or any other existing regulations:
(b) bulk products;
(c) live animals;
(d) books, magazines and journals, fascicles and periodicals in any form, including,
but not limited to, magnetic and compact discs, tapes and similar articles,picture/sticker albums, software, phonograms, videograms, audio and video
cassettes, inter alia .
(e) other products, to be determined by the competent authority within its remit.
(f)     spare parts acquired through catalogues stating the part number or identification
code and intended solely for product service or repair by specialists for the makeand model in question.G/TBT/N/MEX/64
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7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
This draft Standard is being published following the five-year review of existing Mexican
Official Standard NOM-050-SCFI-1994, “Commercial Informati on. General Provisions for
Products” (published in the Official Journal on 24 January 1996), and establishes the
labelling requirements for products of domestic and foreign manufacture marketed inMexico in order to prevent practices likely to mislead the consumer.
8. Relevant documents:  Diario Oficial de la Federación  (Official Journal) of 27 June 2003.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }Not applicable.
10. Final date for comments:   26 August 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:
Web site:  www.economia.gob.mx/?P=85 (Standards catalogue);
E-mail: cidgn@economia.gob.mx.