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G/TBT/GEN/7/Add.28  
1 March  2021 
(21-1753) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
COMMUNICATION FROM MEXICO  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 26 February  2021, is being circulated at the request of 
the delegation of Mexico . 
 
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1.  Pursuant to paragraphs  3(a) and 5(a) of Annex  B to 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 National Quality Infrastructure  Programme for 20 21, 
in Spanish , in the Diario Oficial de la Federación  (Mexican Official Journal) on 25 February  2021. 
2.  The National Quality Infrastructure Programme for 2021 was adopted by the General Directorate 
of Standards, in its capacity as Executive Secretariat of the National Quality 
Infrastructure  Commission , on the basis of  Article  1, subparagraph  I; Article 2, subparagraph  VIII; 
Article 3,subparagraph  VI; Article 4, subparagraph  XIX; Articles  15, 16  and 17; Article 18, 
subparagraphs  II and XVIII ; and Articles  19, 22, 23, 29 and 76 of the Quality Infrastructure Law ; 
and Article  36, subparagraphs  I, VIII, IX and XII, of the  Internal Regulations of the Ministry of the 
Economy , and  includes a list of subjects and proposals for draft Mexican Official Standards, 
Standards, Mexican  Standards, National Measurement Standards and reference materials  that are 
to be developed on a yearly basis . It is a planning, steering, coordination and in formation instrument 
for standardization, harmonization and metrology activities at the national level . 
3.  All regulations, technical standards and sanitary and phytosanitary measures that are developed, 
amended or cancelled on the basis of the National Quality Infrastructure  Programme and the 
Supplement thereto will in due course be published in the Mexican  Official Journal for public 
consultation and, where appropriate, notified to the Secretariat of the World  Trade Organization, 
through the Central Registry of Notifications, in accordance with the transparency provisions 
contained in the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade and the Agreement on the Application of 
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, respectively.  
4.  This communication is being submi tted for purposes of transparency and in order to provide 
Members with further information on the current regulatory process in Mexico.  
5.  The National Quality Infrastructure  Programme and the Supplement thereto are  available for 
consultation , in Spanish , at: https://www.dof.gob.mx/2021/SEECO/ECONOMIA_250221.pdf . 
6.  Comments may be sent to the  National Enquiry Point : 
cesar.orozco@economia.gob.mx ; 
tania.fosado@economia.gob.mx . 
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