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India: AIS certification for airbags for M1 class vehicles postponed again to end of year

On 14 January 2022 the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) announced new airbag requirements on class M1 vehicles. Initially, side airbags should be installed in vehicles launched in India from 1 October 2022. However, the date of this requirement was postponed by one year at the end of 2022 to 1 October 2023 …

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India: Marking for tyres with the BEE energy efficiency label to be adapted to international standards

Last year, there were already some changes for the BEE certification of tyres (e.g. here or here), but they shouldn’t be the last. On 29/12/2022, the Office of Energy Efficiency convened a meeting of the Technical Committee for the Star & Labelling System for Tyres and announced further changes, including the standardisation of the BEE …

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Renewed postponement of BIS certification for air conditioning systems and associated electrical and mechanical parts

The BIS certification for air conditioning systems and associated electrical and mechanical parts such as hermetic compressors or temperature-dependent controls has been postponed again. The original regulation of 5 December 2019 required testing under the BIS logo on the above products from 1 June 2020. However, this regulation was followed (which is also very common …

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UV disinfection equipment/lamps (8543.70.99.90.6I) now require BSMI certification for import into Taiwan

On 21 September 2022, Taiwan’s Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI) announced that UV disinfection equipment such as UV lamps will now must be certified for import into Taiwan. The only exceptions are sterilisation lamps with a rated voltage of more than 250V or medical devices as defined by the Medical Devices Control Act. …

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New dimensional requirements for tyres according to IS 15636, IS 15633 and IS 15627

Already in April 2022, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) had revised the requirements for tyres (BIS certification) changed and updated the corresponding standards. While changes were made in virtually all areas of the standards at the time, this time BIS has only updated the requirements for tyre dimensions. Changes to standards or other regulations …

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India: ‘Extended Producer Responsibility’ (EPR) required for entire tyre supply chain

Anyone in India who accepts tires for disposal or otherwise manages the disposal of used car tires or is in any way part of that disposal process must register with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB, Central Pollution Control Board, s. u. ) with a “Extended producer responsibility”, also an “extended producer responsibility”, register. Those …

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Taiwanese IECEx / ATEX authority now only accepts documentation for Ex certification from these institutes

Anyone who wants to market an Ex-protected product in Taiwan needs approval from the OSHA administration (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) in Taiwan. To get this approval, the manufacturer must either have the Ex certification for the product made directly at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), the technical arm of the authority, or have …

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Test requirements of AIS 142 (tyres) for BEE certification clarified

The Indian Ministry of Transport (Ministry of Road Transport and Highways – MoRTH) has on 28. June 2022 in Gazette Notification 479(E) updated the Central Motor Vehicle Rules (CMVR) applicable to certifications for automotive components (AIS, BIS, BEE) in that they now no longer refer to the examination requirements of the within the BIS Certification …

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