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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 Economía (Ministry of the Economy)

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 la Secretaría de Economía, CCONNSE (National Advisory Committee on Standardization of the Ministry of the Economy)

Av. Puente de Tecamachalco Núm. 6

Col. Lomas de Tecamachalco, Sección Fuentes

Naucalpan de Juarez

CP. 53950, Estado de México

Tel.: 5729 6100, Ext. 43221.

Email: jesus.lucatero@economia.gob.mx/sofia.pacheco@economia.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): Portable machinery fitted with an internal combustion engine, intended mainly for agricultural, forestry and domestic use (heading 82024001)

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: PROY-NOM-204-SCFI-2015, "Maquinaria con motor de combustión interna portátiles, generalmente de uso agrícola, forestal y doméstico. Especificaciones y métodos de prueba" (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY-NOM-204-SCFI-2015: Portable machinery fitted with an internal combustion engine, intended mainly for agricultural, forestry and domestic use. Specifications and test methods) (11 pages, in Spanish)

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Description of content: The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the safety specifications for portable machines fitted with an internal combustion engine that are intended mainly for agricultural, forestry and domestic use, which are marketed in the territory of the United Mexican States. It covers portable brush-cutters and grass-trimmers, powered hand-held hedge-trimmers, portable chainsaws, and knapsack mistblowers, and contains specific sections for each type of machine (see Chapter 5: "Specifications and test methods"). Each of these sections refers to the specific Mexican standard containing the safety specifications and test methods relevant to the use for which the machine is intended.

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Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the relevant characteristics, safety specifications and test methods for portable machines fitted with an internal combustion engine that are intended mainly for agricultural, forestry and domestic use, which are marketed in the territory of the United Mexican States. Its objectives are to ensure consumer safety and protect property by preventing unacceptable damage, in accordance with the following principles:

(a)     Protection against hazards arising from the machine itself;

(b)     Safe operation;

(c)     Protection against hazards caused by the effects of external influences;

(d)     Information on the use and maintenance of the products, and marking and labelling.

·                1.2 Scope of application:

·                1.2.1 The characteristics, safety specifications and test methods referred to in this draft Mexican Official Standard apply to portable machines fitted with an internal combustion engine that are intended mainly for agricultural, forestry and domestic use. They cover portable brush-cutters and grass-trimmers, powered hand-held hedge-trimmers, portable chainsaws and knapsack mistblowers.

·                The notified text is applicable to both domestically manufactured and imported products that are marketed in national territory.

·                1.2.2 Where no specific Mexican Official Standard on product safety exists, the machines covered by this draft Standard must comply with the Mexican standard indicated in each section; however, where a specific standard does exist, it must be used instead.

·                1.2.3 Exceptions. The following are excluded from the scope of this draft Standard:

·                1.2.3.1 Machines subject to compliance with a particular Mexican official safety standard.

·                1.2.3.2 Machines that require electricity to function.

·                1.2.3.3 Separate internal combustion engines.

·                1.2.3.4 Machines the use of which requires more than one operator or power supply.

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Relevant documents:

·                     2.1 Ley Federal sobre Metrología y Normalización y sus reformas (Federal Law on Metrology and Standardization and amendments thereto), published in the Official Journal on 1 July 1992;

·                     2.2 Reglamento de la Ley Federal sobre Metrología y Normalización y sus reformas (Regulations implementing the Federal Law on Metrology and Standardization and amendments thereto), published in the Official Journal on 14 January 1999;

·                     2.3 Mexican Official Standard NOM-008-SCFI-2002: Sistema general de unidades de medida (General system of units of measurement), published in the Official Journal on 27 November 2002;

·                     2.4 Mexican Official Standard NOM-050-SCFI-2004: Información comercial. Etiquetado general de productos (Commercial information - General product labelling), published in the Official Journal on 1 June 2004;

·                     2.5 Mexican Official Standard NOM-106-SCFI-2000: Características de dise?o y condiciones de uso de la contrase?a oficial (Design characteristics and conditions for use of the official countermark) (annuls Mexican Official Standard NOM-106-SCFI-2000, published on 2 November and 11 December 2000), published in the Official Journal on 2 February 2001;

·                     2.6 Mexican Official Standard NOM-017-SCFI-1993: Información comercial - Etiquetado de artículos reconstruidos, usados o de segunda mano, de segunda línea, descontinuados y fuera de especificaciones (Commercial information - Labelling of rebuilt, used or second-hand articles, seconds, discontinued articles, and products that do not conform to specifications), published in the Official Journal on 29 October 1993;

·                     2.7 Mexican Standard NMX-O-226-SCFI-2015: Maquinaria agrícola y forestal - Ensayos para desbrozadoras y cortadoras de césped portátiles, manuales y motorizadas - Máquinas equipadas con un motor de combustión interna (Agricultural and forestry machinery - Tests for portable, hand-held, powered brush-cutters and grass-trimmers - Machinery equipped with an internal combustion engine). Notice of entry into force published in the Official Journal on 6 August 2015;

·                     2.8 Mexican Standard NMX-O-227-SCFI-2015: Cortasetos manuales motorizados - Especificaciones y medidas de uso (Powered hand-held hedge-trimmers - Specifications and measures regarding use). Notice of entry into force published in the Official Journal on 6 August 2015;

·                     2.9 Mexican Standard NMX-O-228-SCFI-2015: Maquinaria forestal - Motosierras de cadena portátiles - Motosierras para servicio forestal (Forestry machinery - Portable chainsaws - Power saws for forestry service). Notice of entry into force published in the Official Journal on 6 August 2015;

·                     2.10 Mexican Standard NMX-O-229-SCFI-2015: Maquinaria agrícola y forestal - Pulverizadoras de mochila y sopladoras por flujo de aire con motor de combustión interna (Agricultural and forestry machinery - Knapsack internal combustion engine-driven mistblowers). Notice of entry into force published in the Official Journal on 6 August 2015.

Also, the following international standards:

·                     2.11 ISO9518:1998: Forestry machinery - Portable chainsaws - Kickback test. First edition (1998);

·                     2.12 ISO13772:2009: Forestry machinery - Portable chainsaws - Non-manually actuated chain break performance. First edition (2009);

·                     2.13 ISO28139:2009: Agricultural and forestry machinery - Knapsack combustion-engine-driven mistblowers - Safety requirements. First edition (2009);

·                     2.14 ISO 11681-1:2011: Machinery for forestry - Portable chainsaw safety requirements and testing - Part 1: Chainsaws for forest service. Third edition (2011);

·                     2.15 ISO 11806-1:2011: Agricultural and forestry machinery - Safety requirements and testing for portable, hand-held, powered brush-cutters and grass-trimmers - Part 1: Machines fitted with an integral combustion engine. First edition (2011);

·                    2.16 ISO-10517:2009: Powered hand-held hedge-trimmers - Safety. Second edition (2009).

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Proposed date of adoption: The notified draft Mexican Official Standard will enter into force upon its publication in the Official Journal as a final standard.

Proposed date of entry into force: The notified draft Mexican Official Standard will enter into force 365 calendar days following its publication in the Official Journal as a final standard.

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Final date for comments: 26 December 2016

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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 5229-6100, Ext. 43244.

Fax: (+52) 55 5520-9715

Email: normasomc@economia.gob.mx and/or sofia.pacheco@economia.gob.mx

Website: http://www.economia-noms.gob.mx/?P=144

Text available online at: http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5458425&fecha=26/10/2016

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