Compliance domain
QCOs, labelling and the six-month window before your product is illegal
2,800+ obligations
maintained across Central, state and municipal levels
Applies to
Anyone manufacturing, importing, packaging or selling a physical product
- 2,800+
- product standard obligations
- 180+
- Quality Control Orders tracked
- Per-SKU
- applicability mapping to your catalogue
What the domain contains
The obligation groups we maintain
Each of these decomposes into individual obligations with an actor, an action, a trigger and a deadline, cited to the section or rule it comes from.
BIS certification under QCOs
Licence per product per factory, ISI marking, factory inspection, and for foreign manufacturers the Foreign Manufacturers Certification Scheme.
Compulsory Registration Scheme
Registration for electronics and IT goods with testing at BIS-recognised labs and mandatory marking.
Legal Metrology declarations
Mandatory declarations on pre-packaged commodities, packer and importer registration in each state, and separate e-commerce listing requirements.
Sector-specific product rules
FSSAI labelling and standards for food, CDSCO licensing for drugs and devices, AIS standards for automotive components.
Recall and post-market obligations
Product recall procedures under FSSAI, Medical Device Rules and CMVR, with reporting to the relevant authority.
Import compliance
BIS marking at the point of import, non-compliant consignments liable to detention, and mandatory registration systems for steel and non-ferrous metals.
Why it goes wrong
The failure modes we see most often
QCO timelines are short and the supply chain is long
A QCO typically allows six to twelve months. Getting a foreign supplier BIS-licensed takes most of that, and there is no relief for goods already ordered.
Certification is per factory, not per company
A supplier certified for one plant does not cover output from another. Supplier changes silently break compliance.
Labelling is state-enforced
Legal Metrology is enforced by state controllers who inspect locally and interpret differently, so a pack approved in one state gets challenged in another.
Coverage
Principal legislation in this domain
A representative list. State variants of each are maintained separately, because they differ in ways that matter operationally.
- BIS Act, 2016 and Quality Control Orders
- Legal Metrology Act, 2009
- FSS Act, 2006
- Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940
- Medical Device Rules, 2017
- CMVR and AIS standards
Explore the full library in the regulation explorer, or see the compliance calendar for what falls due next.
Across industries
This domain does not care what you manufacture
Domain obligations apply by activity, headcount, turnover and location — not by sector code. What changes between industries is how much of the domain lands on you, and which sectoral rules stack on top.
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