The National Advisory Committee for Standardization of the Ministry of Economy (CCONNSE), unanimously approved the Official Mexican Standard NOM-001-SCFI-2018, Electronic Devices – Safety Requirements and Test Methods, which cancels NOM-001- SCFI-1993 .
As mentioned in our February blog, the Mexican Government has confirmed that the major regulatory change to guarantee security aspects and effectively achieve the ideal instrument for the protection of consumer interests in Mexico, will begin in May 2020. View Federal Official Gazette.
OBJECTIVE:
This Official Mexican Standard applies to electronic equipment and its accessories:
- Electronic equipment that is manufactured, imported, marketed, distributed or leased in Mexico, with the central objective of preventing risks to consumers and their assets.
- Appliances that use the electrical energy of the public service for their supply, with single-phase supply voltages up to 277 V ac at 60 Hz and / or three-phase voltages up to 480 V ac between lines at 60 Hz; as well as other energy sources, such as cells, batteries, accumulators, self-generation and alternative power sources up to 500 V dc
- New, second-line, discontinued, rebuilt, reconditioned, used or second-hand electronic equipment.
SCOPE:
The protection characteristics of this standard apply to the users of the products, but also to the operating or maintenance personnel who come into contact with the certified appliances at risk, preventing reasonably foreseeable misuse, when their installation, conservation and use, correspond to the purpose they have, according to the following principles:
- Protection against electric shock;
- Protection against mechanical hazards:
- Protection against optical radiation;
- Protection against fire;
- Protection against thermal effects, and
- Protection against biological and chemical effects.
This Official Mexican Standard also applies to external power supplies, which are used in conjunction with the electronic equipment contemplated in this Official Mexican Standard, which are marketed, distributed or supplied, either individually or as part of a product of final use in the same packaging, and to external power supplies that are marketed individually for information technology equipment contemplated in the field of application of NOM-019-SCFI-1998 or that replaces it, in both cases for use in DC power supplies up to 250 V and in AC power supplies up to 480 V at 60 Hz.
Exclusions to the Standard are defined in Chapter 1.3.
Important Changes:
- The new lead time for the issuance of a test report will be increased.
- All devices working with Solar Energy will be tested now under this new Standard, however they will be analyzed per request.
- This new Standard includes devices that are also covered under NOM-019-SCFI-1998. This means if the HS Code considers 2 Standards, samples must be tested under both.
- All testing methods will now be destructive to any sample received. You need to consider that all NOM-001 testing will be done to components mainly, so electronic cards will be tested also and destroyed.
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