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Indian regulations for the certification of automotive components undergo two changes

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and the Ministry of Heavy Engineering in India have announced two changes to the regulations governing the certification of automotive components in India. These changes are intended to improve the quality control and performance standards of tyres and automotive rim components. The first amendment, known as the Central …

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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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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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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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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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