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Notifying Member: MEXICO

If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):

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Agency responsible: Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources)

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 Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (National Advisory Committee on Standardization for the Environment and Natural Resources)

Dirección General de Industria (Directorate-General of Industry)

Boulevard Adolfo Ruiz Cortines número 4209, 4o. piso Ala "B"

Fraccionamiento Jardines en la Montaña

Delegación Tlalpan

14210, México, D.F.

Email: dgi@semarnat.gob.mx

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Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:

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Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and accessories thereof (HS 87)

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Proyecto de modificación a la Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-044-SEMARNAT-2006, Que establece los límites máximos permisibles de emisión de hidrocarburos totales, hidrocarburos no metano, monóxido de carbono, óxidos de nitrógeno y partículas provenientes del escape de motores nuevos que usan diesel como combustible y que se utilizarán para la propulsión de vehículos automotores nuevos con peso bruto vehicular mayor de 3,857 kilogramos (Draft Amendment to Mexican Official Standard NOM-044-SEMARNAT-2006 establishing the maximum permissible limits for emissions of total hydrocarbons, non-methane hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and particles from the exhaust pipes of new diesel engines to be used for the propulsion of new motor vehicles of a gross vehicle weight exceeding 3,857 kg) (27 pages, in Spanish)

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Description of content: This Mexican Official Standard is binding upon the manufacturers and importers of new diesel engines to be used for the propulsion of motor vehicles of a gross vehicle weight exceeding 3,857 kg and for motor vehicles of a gross vehicle weight exceeding 3,857 kg equipped with this type of engine. This Mexican Official Standard does not cover remanufactured engines.

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Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: The notified text establishes the maximum permissible limits for emissions of ammonia (NH3), hydrocarbons (HC), non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC), non-methane hydrocarbons plus nitrogen oxides (NMHC+NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particles (Part) from the exhaust pipes of new diesel engines to be used for the propulsion of motor vehicles of a gross vehicle weight exceeding 3,857 kg and from the exhaust pipes of new motor vehicles of a gross vehicle weight exceeding 3,857 kg equipped with this type of engine.

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Relevant documents:

·                Norma Mexicana NMX-AA-23-1986, Protección al Ambiente - Contaminación Atmosférica. Terminología (Mexican Standard NMX-AA-23-1986, Environmental protection - Atmospherical pollution. Terminology). Notice of entry into force published in the Official Journal on 15 July 1986.

·                NOM-086-SEMARNAT-SENER-SCFI-2005, Especificaciones de los combustibles fósiles para la protección ambiental (Mexican Official Standard NOM-086-SEMARNAT-SENER-SCFI-2005, Fossil fuel specifications for environmental protection).

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Proposed date of adoption: -

Proposed date of entry into force: The notified Mexican Official Standard will enter into force after being published as a final standard in the Official Journal (Diario Oficial de la Federación). More specifically, it will enter into force on the day following that on which the General Directorate of Standards of the Ministry of the Economy issues a notice confirming the existence of the infrastructure required for its implementation.

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Final date for comments: 17 February 2015

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Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of 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: normasomc@economia.gob.mx and/or sofia.pacheco@economia.gob.mx

Diario Oficial de la Federación (Official Journal) of 17 December 2014: http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5376263&fecha=17/12/2014

https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2015/TBT/MEX/15_0393_00_s.pdf