Introduction to BIS
This issue of the newsletter covers various news items on recent developments around BIS, a detailed article titled “Ensuring compliance: Enforcement and search & seizure powers of the Bureau of Indian Standards”, and updates relating to Quality Control Orders (QCOs).
TThe article, which is also available here, delves into the legal framework, procedural aspects, and case studies relating to BIS’s enforcement mechanisms.
The part on QCO Updates as usual covers QCOs due for implementation in the months of April, May and June 2025 and amendments made to the existing QCOs. No new QCO was notified in the official gazette, and no QCO was notified by India on the WTO-TBT portal in March 2025.
Further, this newsletter by the LKS Supply Chain Team highlights that companies in the Construction; Hardware; Electrical Appliances; Tool manufacturing; Textiles; Steel and Aluminium; Solar Systems; and Chemical and Petrochemical sectors are likely to be impacted by the QCOs to be implemented in April, May and June this year.
