 
  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/GEN/491/Add.1 
G/TBT/GEN/7/Add.1 23 November 2004 
 
 
(04-5092) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
 
 
 
COMMUNICATION FROM MEXICO 
 
Addendum  
 
 
 The following communication, dated 18 November  2004, is being circulated at the request of 
the delegation of Mexico.  
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 1. Pursuant to paragraphs 3 a nd 5(a) of Annex B of the Agreement on the Application of 
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and Articles 2.9.1 and 10.3.1 of the Agreement on Technical 
Barriers to Trade, the Government of Mexico hereby reports that the Ministry of the Economy, through the General Directorate of Standards, published the Supplement to the National 
Standardization Programme 2004  in Spanish in the Official Journal of the Federation on 
10 November 2004. 
2. Under Article 61-A of the Fede ral Law on Metrology and Standa rdization and Article 55 of 
the Regulations thereto, the Supplement to the National Standardization Programme 2004  
includes a list of the issues which, in addition to  those contained in the National Standardization 
Programme 2004
1, are to be developed this year as Mexican official standards ("technical regulations" 
and "sanitary and phytosanitary measures"), refe rence standards for government procurement and 
Mexican standards ("voluntary standards") by th e departments and agencies of the federal public 
administration and registered national standard s bodies, respectively.  In particular, the Supplement  
includes a total of 191 issues, consisting of 53 Mexican  official standards, 55 reference standards and 
83 Mexican standards. 
3. All technical regulations and sanitary and phyto sanitary measures prepared or revised on the 
basis of this Supplement will, in due course, be pub lished in the Official Journal of the Federation for 
public consultation and, where appropriate, notified to the S ecretariat of the World Trade 
Organization through the Central Registry of Notifications. 
4. This notification is provided for the purposes of transparency and in order to furnish Members 
with further information on the Mexican regulatory process. 
5. The Supplement to the National Standardization Programme 2004  is available for 
consultation in Spanish at the WTO Secr etariat (office 1033), from the e-mail address 
cidgn@economia.gob.mx  and at the Mexican National Enquiry Point. 
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1 Published in the Official Journal of the Federation on 24 May 2004 and notified to Members of the 
World Trade Organization in documents G/SPS/GEN/491 and G/TBT/GEN/7 , both dated 7 June 2004. 