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Notifying Member: MEXICO

If applicable, name of local government involved:

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Agency responsible: Secretaría de Salud (Ministry of Health)

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Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): Water and ice for human consumption.

4.

Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:

[X]     All trading partners

[ ]       Specific regions or countries:

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Title of the notified document: Proyecto de Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY-NOM-201-SSA1-2013, Productos y servicios. Agua y hielo para consumo humano, envasados y a granel. Especificaciones sanitarias (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY-NOM-201-SSA1-2013: Products and services. Water and ice for human consumption, packaged and in bulk. Sanitary specifications) Language: Spanish Number of pages: 114

http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/sps/MEX/14_0813_00_s.pdf

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Description of content: The notified text establishes the characteristics of and sanitary specifications for water and ice for human consumption marketed in pre-packaged form or in bulk, and establishments engaged in the processing or importation of these products.

It is binding throughout Mexican territory on natural and legal persons engaged in the processing or importation of these products.

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Objective and rationale: [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, [ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from other damage from pests.

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Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:

[X]     Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex standard or related text) CODEX STAN 108-1981. Revisions 1997, 2008.

[ ]       World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic Animal Health Code, chapter number)

[ ]       International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM No.)

[ ]       None

Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?

[X] Yes [ ] No

If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the international standard:

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Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:

·         Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-008-SCFI-2002, Sistema General de Unidades de Medida (Mexican Official Standard NOM-008-SCFI-2002: General system of units of measurement).

·         Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-026-STPS-2008, Colores y se?ales de seguridad e higiene, e identificación de riesgos por fluidos conducidos en tuberías (Mexican Official Standard NOM-026-STPS-2008: Signs and colours for safety and health, and identification of risk of accidents by fluids conducted in pipes).

·         Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-051-SCFI/SSA1-2010, Especificaciones generales de etiquetado para alimentos y bebidas no alcohólicas preenvasados - Información comercial y sanitaria (Mexican Official Standard NOM-051-SCFI/SSA1-2010: General specifications for the labelling of pre-packaged food and non-alcoholic beverages - Commercial and health information).

·         Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-251-SSA1-2009, Prácticas de higiene para el proceso de alimentos, bebidas o suplementos alimenticios (Mexican Official Standard NOM-251-SSA1-2009: Hygiene practices for the processing of foods, drinks and dietary supplements).

(All texts available in Spanish)

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Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy): To be determined.

Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy): To be determined.

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Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or (dd/mm/yy): To be determined.

[X] Trade facilitating measure

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Final date for comments: [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification and/or (dd/mm/yy): 12 April 2014

Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and email address (if available) of other body:

Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normalización de Regulación y Fomento Sanitario   Oklahoma número 14, planta baja                                                                                      Colonia Nápoles, Código postal 03810, México, D.F.                                                                            Tel.: 50 80 52 00, Ext. 1333 

Fax: 55 11 14 99     

Email: rfs@cofepris.gob.mx

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Texts available from: [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and email address (if available) of other body:

Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normatividad

Dirección General de Normas

Av. Puente de Tecamachalco 6, Piso 2, Lomas de Tecamachalco

Sección Fuentes, C.P. 53950

Naucalpan de Juárez, Estado de México

Tel.: (+52 55) 5729 9100, Ext. 43220

Email: normasomc@economia.gob.mx

Website: http://www.senasica.gob.mx/?id=5456