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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 OFFICIAL REGISTER (First Section) 43 SECRETARIAT OF COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT Mexican Official Standard NOM-043-SCT/2003, Shipping document for hazardous substances, materials and wastes ______________________________________________________ __________ At the margin a seal with the National Crest, that says: United Mexican States.- Secretariat of Communications and Transport. MEXICAN OFFICIAL STANDARD NOM-043-SCT/2003 SHIPPING DOCUMENT FOR HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES, MATERIALS AND WASTES. AARON DYCHTER POLTORALEK, Under Secretary of Transport and President of the National Standardization Consultative Committee for the Land and the Aerial Transportation, together with CESAR PATRICIO REYES ROEL, Coordinator General of Ports and Merchant Marine and President of the National Consultative Committee of Standardization of Maritime Transportation and Ports, with foundation on articles 36, fractions I, IX, XII y XIV of the Organic Law of Federal Public Administration; 1st., 38 fraction II,40 Fractions I, III, XVI, 41, 43, 47, y 51 of the Federal Law on Metrology and Standardization; 1st. and 5th., Fraction VI of the Law of Roads, Bridges and Federal Autotransport; 7th. Fraction V, 39 and 63 of the Law of Navigation; 1st. and 6th. Fractions III and V of the Law of Civil Aviation; 28, 31, 34 and 39 of the Regulation for the Land Transport of Hazardous Materials and Wastes; as well as the other legal ordainments that may result applicable, and CONSIDERING That it is necessary during the transportation of hazardous substances, materials and wastes, to have availability of the basic information in relation to the official designation for transport, identification of the hazardous substances, materials and wastes their risks and the declarations that the shipper delivers for its transportation. That as a result of the compromises that resulted from the NAFTA between Mexico, the United States an