In India, a country on the rise economically, the legal requirements for more and more products are being extended. The system of mandatory BIS certifications is being expanded for this purpose. The system is based on product lists and for some product categories the customs tariff numbers are also used to determine which certification procedure is to be used.
Furthermore, some products are listed in different certifications. It also depends on the intended use and other details in the respective implementing regulations to find out which procedure is to be used for a product.
The list of machines that fall under the BIS certification of "Scheme X" can be found in the following legal act
→ view legal act here
Here, the general description of the machines concerned is specified with the first 6 digits of the customs tariff number. The second part (Second Schedule) contains a list of applicable standards. The standards are Indian Standards (IS) which are often based on obsolete ISO and IEC standards.
The following regulation postpones the mandatory application of certification to September 1, 2026.
→ view regulation here
The Indian machinery regulation under BIS Scheme X offers plenty of challenges that will keep us busy in the future.
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Author's note
This article has been machine translated into English.
TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
For some products, manufacturers are required to obtain BIS certification (ISI) or BIS registration under the Compulsory Registration Scheme (CRS) in order to offer them on the Indian market. ISI certification of consumer goods dates back to 2000. Everything we are discussing now took place after ISI was renamed BIS (around 2014). Scheme X was first mentioned in the 2020s and was supposed to start in September 2025.
