BIS Certification

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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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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Further postponement of the BIS certification requirement for wheels according to IS 9436

It is not unusual for a new product certification obligation at the BIS to be postponed a few times after the initial announcement. So it is this time with the introduction of the mandatory certification of wheels, colloquially known as rims. In September 2020, the Bureua of Indian Standards (BIS) announced in the“Automobile Wheel Rim …

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