MEXICO: EMERGENCY MEXICAN OFFICIAL STANDARD NOM-EM-005-SCFI-1997, DETERMINATION, ALLOCATION AND FIXING OF VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS -- SPECIFICATIONS The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif.97.352. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: MEXICO. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2). 2. Agency responsible: Ministry of Trade and Industrial Development. Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification can be indicated if different from above. 3. Notified under Article 2.10.1. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Vehicle identification. 5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Emergency Mexican Official Standard NOM-EM-005-SCFI-1997, Determination, Allocation and Fixing of Vehicle Identification Numbers -- Specifications (11 pages). 6. Description of content: This Emergency Mexican Official Standard lays down the specifications for determining, allocating and fixing the NIV (Vehicle Identification Number) on the vehicles described in paragraph 2.5 (buses, automobiles, commercial lorries, light lorries, medium lorries, heavy lorries, motorcycles, trailers, semi-trailers, road tractors, unfinished vehicles) of this Standard. This Emergency Mexican Official Standard adopts international provisions and mechanisms on vehicle identification with the aim of establishing a vehicle identification number that shows the identity of vehicles manufactured, assembled or imported in Mexico. This will help to resolve problems related to the lack of vehicle controls, for example, unlawful imports and robbery, and will provide security for commercial transactions and thus give individuals and the public sector a means of identifying with certainty the vehicle that is the subject of the transaction. 7. Objective and rationale: Consumer safety. 8. Relevant documents: Diario Oficial de la Federacio

AC T='1'>n (Official Journal) of 27 June 1997. 9. Proposed date of adoption: 28 June 1997; Proposed date of entry into force: 28 June 1997.This Emergency Mexican Official Standard will not apply to vehicles manufactured, assembled or imported prior to this date. 10. Final date for comments: Not listed. 11. Text available from: National enquiry point. (0203)

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