Ensuring Compliance With The Product Certification Scheme Of BIS

Introduction
While BIS Certification Scheme is essentially voluntary in nature, the Central Government notifies a number of products that must ensure mandatory compliance. Such powers are conferred to various line ministries under the Central Government under Section 16 of the BIS Act, 2016. As per the said provision, such goods or articles are determined based on various factors such as public interest, protection of human, animal or plant health, safety of environment, prevention of unfair trade practices, and national security.
At present, majority of the daily-use and industrial goods are notified under Scheme-I of the BIS (Conformity Assessment) Regulations, 2018. An overview of all the conformity assessment schemes of BIS was discussed in the previous newsletter, as provided here.