India: New Transition Facilitation (Quality Control) Order, 2026 

 

The Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry has issued a new Transition Facilitation (Quality Control) Order, 2026. 

It allows companies to apply for a permission to certify certain regulated products Scheme II of Schedule II (which is based on self-certification basis) of the Bureau of Indian Standards (Conformity Assessment) Regulations, 2018, instead of Scheme I (ISI Mark Scheme) of BIS (where physical inspection by BIS is mandatory). 

This establishes an alternative risk-based facilitation mechanism aimed at promoting technology advancement or adoption, enhancing ease of doing business, and strengthening supply chain resilience, while ensuring continued conformity with applicable Indian Standards and safeguarding consumer interests. 

The permission under this Order may be granted by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade,  

(a) to a person that is a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013;   and  

(b) based on the risk assessment of the person by an Implementation Committee constituted under the Order.   

The applications will be assessed by an Implementation Committee composed of representatives of several ministries and authorities. 

The Implementation Committee shall assess the person based on its technical capability, demonstrated experience; manner of ensuring quality assurance across its supply chain including through control over its design and manufacturing; history of conduct and compliance integrity; and its commitment to establish supply chain capabilities in India for the concerned goods and articles by promoting technological adoption/advancement or design capabilities or research and development; or its compliance for the concerned  Quality Control Order for a continuous period of three years without any default; and any other relevant factors. 

Products in scope of the facilitated certification are: AC and its components, Furniture, Toys, Hinges, Electrical Appliances, Footwears and its components, Domestic Clothes Washing, Domestic Water Heaters etc.  To be more precise, these are products subject to:

• Toys (Quality Control) Order, 2020.
• Personal Protective Equipment – Footwear (Quality Control) Order, 2020.
• Air Conditioner and its related Parts, Hermetic Compressor and Temperature Sensing Controls (Quality Control) Order, 2019.
• Footwear made from All Rubber and all Polymeric Material and its components (Quality Control) Order, 2024.
• Footwear made from Leather and other Materials (Quality Control) Order, 2024.
• Electrical appliance for domestic water heating (Quality Control) Order, 2025.
• Electrical appliance for domestic clothes washing (Quality Control) Order, 2024.
• Hinges (Quality Control) Order, 2025.
• Furniture (Quality Control) Order, 2025.
• Safety of Household, Commercial and Similar Electrical Appliances (Quality Control) Order, 2026.

To find out more about product compliance in India and the Quality Control Orders, please do not hesitate to contact the Product Compliance Institute directly.