. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/MEX/41
28 October 2002
(02-5925)
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 Health
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):  Disposable enema bags
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Mexican
Official Standard PROY-NOM-196-SSA1-2000 Establishing the Sanitary Specifications for
Disposable Enema Bags  (22 pages, in Spanish).
6. Description of content:   This draft Mexican Official Standard (NOM) establishes the
sanitary specifications for disposable enema bags and the test methods for checking them.
This draft Mexican Official Standard will be binding throughout the national
territory on all industries, laboratories and establishments engaged in the manufacture,
importation and distribution of disposable enema bags.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Protection of human health and safety by  way of the definition of the sanitary
specifications for and marking, packing and packaging of disposable enema bags.
8. Relevant documents:  Diario Oficial de la Federación  (Official Journal) of
11 October 2002.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }To be determined
10. Final date for comments:   10 December 2002G/TBT/N/MEX/41
Page 2
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).