Monthly Archives: September 2023

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), in March last year, had requested TRAI seeking their advice on rationalizing the Entry Fee and Bank Guarantees associated with various licenses in the telecom industry.  In its response, TRAI issued the consultation paper for the same wherein all the relevant stakeholders/ industry associations participated

From February 29, 2024, it is mandatory for Plywood and Wooden Flush Door Shutters to be ISI-Certified. This covers plywood for general purposes, structural, marine, and fire-retardant plywood. In a fire situation, plywood burning releases toxic gases and leads to suffocation to humans. Including fire-retardant plywood under the ISI standard

The product manuals of the consumer footwear and footwear components products have been revised to make the Scheme of Inspection and Testing ( SIT) compliance optional for Micro and Small-Scale Units (MSSUs) concerning the following requirements are not compulsory:   Maintaining test records.  Maintaining a suitably equipped and staffed lab

The Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC) has extended the mandatory certification date for phase III and phase IV products by three months, i.e., from October 1, 2023, to January 1, 2024. This extension applies to 32 products (ERs) such as Gateway, Router, LAN Switch, IoT gateway, Tracking Devices, Equipment Operating in

CPCB is actively reminding all EPR holders through mail to submit their annual filing on or before October 31, 2023. Please be informed of the following points-  EPR-holders under PWM Regulations who received their EPRs before March 31, 2023, are legally obligated to submit their annual returns online to avoid

As per the Gazette released on July 21st by the CPCB regarding Waste Tyre Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), an important interim arrangement has been introduced. Here’s what you need to know:  Under the Waste Tyre EPR, the CPCB has implemented an interim solution to manage EPR exchange credits. All producers

It is mandatory for all nuts, bolts and fasteners manufactured or imported for sale or use in India to be ISI-certified from 𝟐𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒. The goods or articles listed in Column 1 of the Table below must meet the Indian Standard specified in Column 2 of the Table and

Under the E-waste Management Rules, 2022, recyclers now must obtain EPR Certificates through the EPR Portal with CPCB providing an interim arrangement to generate and transfer EPR-End-Product-Credits-Certificates to producers. Recyclers are also required to maintain records of their transactions of sales and purchase procurement of raw materials, sales of end

The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) has commenced suspension of the BEE applicant portal of entities that did not submit their Production Data Upload (PDU) for the fiscal years 2017-18 to 2021-22. Despite repeated notifications from the BEE department regarding submitting production data for the fiscal years 2017-2022, the department