. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/MEX/39
24 October 2002
(02-5850)
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):  Ham
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Mexican
Official Standard PROY-NOM-158-SCFI-2002, Ham - Trade Description, Physical and
Chemical Specifications, Commercial Informati on and Test Methods  (6 pages, in Spanish).
6. Description of content:   This draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the trade
descriptions of the different types of ham marketed within the territory of the United
Mexican States, as well as the physical and chemical specifications that such products mustmeet in order to display such descriptions, the test methods used to prove their compliance
and the commercial information that must be shown on the product containers.
This draft Mexican Official Standard is applicable to all cured and/or cooked and/or
smoked and/or aged meat products marketed within the territory of the United Mexican
States under the trade description "ham" (jamón).
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Physical and chemical specifications, trade description and labelling of the different
types of ham to protect the consumer.
8. Relevant documents:  Diario Oficial de la Federación  (Official Journal) of
8 October 2002.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }To be determinedG/TBT/N/MEX/39
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10. Final date for comments:   7 December 2002
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).