G/TBT/N/MEX/190
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G/TBT/N/MEX/190
12 March 2010
(10-1346)
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: Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (Ministry of Communications and Transport)
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:
Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normalización de Transporte Terrestre
(National Advisory Committee on Standardization for Land Transport)
Calzada de las Bombas No.411, 11o. piso
Colonia Los Girasoles
Código postal 04920, Delegación Coyoacán
Tel.: 5684 0188 / 5684 1275
Email: , and
Website: http://www.sct.gob.mx
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): Containers, packaging, and intermediate bulk containers (IBC).
5. / Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: NOM027SCT2/2009, Especificaciones especiales y adicionales para los envases, embalajes, recipientes intermedios a granel, cisternas portátiles y transporte de las substancias, materiales y residuos peligrosos de la división 5.2 peróxidos orgánicos (Mexican Official Standard NOM027SCT2/2009, Special and additional specifications for containers, packing, intermediate bulk containers, and portable tanks used to transport Division 5.2 hazardous substances, materials and waste (organic peroxides)) (34 pages, in Spanish)
6. / Description of content: The notified Mexican Official Standard is binding on shippers, carriers and consignees of Division 5.2 hazardous substances, materials and waste (organic peroxides) transported by general land communication routes.
Carriers shall agree to transport duly classified and packed Division 5.2 hazardous substances, materials and waste (organic peroxides) and must check, during transportation, that the temperature of such products is as indicated by the shipper.
7. / Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: To establish special and additional specifications for containers and/or packing, intermediate bulk containers (IBC), and portable tanks used to transport Division 5.2 hazardous substances (organic peroxides), and specifications relating to classification, desensitization, temperature regulation (in cases where products are to be transported at a certain temperature) and type of transport.
8. / Relevant documents:
·  Diario Oficial de la Federación (Official Journal) of 17 February 2010: http://www.dof.gob.mx
·  Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods - Model Regulations, fifteenth revised edition, United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2007. Volume I, Chapter 2.5.
·  Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), first revised edition, United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2005. Chapter 2.15.
·  Manual of Tests and Criteria, fourth revised edition, United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2003. Parts II and III.
9. / Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: / } / 60calendar days after publication in the Official Journal.
10. / Final date for comments: n/a
11. / Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax numbers, email and website addresses, if available of the other body:
Secretaría de Economía
Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normatividad
Dirección General de Normas
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729 9100, Ext. 43217
Fax: (+52) 55 5520 9715
Website: http://www.economia-noms.gob.mx/?P=144
Email: and/or
Text also available online at:
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2010/tbt/mex/10_1053_00_s.pdf