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Mexico's NOM-003 and related standards to change

The Mexican National Regulation NOM-003-SCFI-2014, that applies to most electrical goods, and that is required to be certified to place any product in the Mexican market , is to suffer changes, AGAIN. According to regulatory officials in that country, the regulation is due for enforcement of two clauses related to NMX-J-521 standard (the testing standard that is the Mexican adoption of the international IEC 60335). Such clauses are EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) and Software Evaluation, and are identical to those contained in said IEC.

What's relevant of this change is that the Mexicans are struggling with the construction of testing infrastructure to be able to meet the deadline of May 26th, 2017, because, if the time comes and the "new" clauses are enforced without having accredited laboratories enough to meet the demand, there will be large lines of products waiting to be tested, ergo, certified and huge waiting times for importing products, of course, those that fall under the scope of such clauses.

What makes the situation even more interesting is the fact that in orfer to meet these requirements, new to the Mexicans, manufacturers must provide software coding and other stuff that, most likely will be hard, if not impossible to acquire by importers testing their products in that country. Let's see what México does to this new challenge, now that their economy is in desperate need for reduction of burdens to make it more attractive and not the opposite.

With information from the Mexican General Bureau of Standards (DGN) - Avlix International

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Mexico's NOM-030 now enforced.

The Mexican National Commission for efficient use of Energy - CONUEE just enforced in April the new NOM-030-ENER-2016, that applies to LED lamps (to be sold as a "stand-alone" product. The change implies that the minimum requirement of Luminous Efficacy is now higher. To this, many products already in the Mexican Market are showing failures as the authority applied the new requirement even to those product already certified.

With Information from CONUEE and Mexican Official Gazette.

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Brazilian INMETRO new Portaria for toys

The Brazilian Regulatory agency INMETRO issued in December 2016 and already enforced a new regulation for playground toys. The new regulation applies to a list of 130 different types of toys from plastic to electrical, however, only applies to those toys for children up to 14 years old. The document refers to the ruls stated in the "Regulamento Geral para Certificacao de Produtos" (RGCP) that explains that, although certain conditions may apply, it is possible to recognize foreign certifications for toys.

With information from INMETRO

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Mexico new NOM-029-ENER Technical Regulation

The Mexican National Commission for Efficient use of Energy - CONUEE just published in the Mexican Official Gazzette a new regulation applicable to External Power Supplies (EPS) for that is applicable to almost. The new regulation implies testing and a certification that must be renewed every year. This new disposition by the mexican federal government is a national deviation that only applies to México.

With Information from CONUEE