Introduction Manufacturers and importers both have IMEI registration obligations, but the trigger point is different. Manufacturers must register the IMEIs of applicable India-made devices before the first sale. Importers must register the IMEI before importing the device into India, including equipment imported for applicable sale, testing or research purposes. For [...]
Introduction A phytosanitary certificate in India is an official document issued by the Plant Quarantine authorities under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. It certifies that your export consignment of plants or plant products was inspected and meets the importing country’s plant health rules. To get one, you apply [...]
Introduction PSARA licence annual filing refers to the recurring compliance obligations a licensed private security agency must keep up with during its five-year licence validity — it is not a single annual renewal form. This ongoing compliance may include maintaining the required guard, training, deployment and other records under the [...]
Introduction If you run a factory, shop, hotel, restaurant, cinema, educational institution, or a road-transport or newspaper establishment in India and your headcount has crossed the government-notified limit, ESI registration is not optional. It’s a statutory obligation under the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948, and skipping it exposes an employer [...]
Introduction DGFT Registration Renewal (revalidating) a DGFT restricted goods license means extending its usable time window when you can’t complete your import or export within the original validity, while amending it means correcting or changing specific details like item description, quantity, or CIF value. Both requests are filed electronically through [...]
Introduction RNI registration for publisher is the process by which the person or entity responsible for bringing out a newspaper, magazine, or periodical gets legally registered with the Press Registrar General of India (PRGI) through the Press Sewa Portal. The publisher is appointed by the owner, completes the main registration [...]
Introduction A cosmetic loan license lets a brand legally manufacture cosmetics in India using another company’s GMP-compliant facility, instead of owning its own factory. You apply via Form COS-6, along with a Good Manufacturing Practices self-declaration in Form COS-7, to your State Licensing Authority — which grants the Form COS-9 [...]
Introduction Cosmetic import registration (COS-2) costs approximately USD 1,000 per product category, USD 500 per foreign manufacturing site, and USD 50 per variant, paid to CDSCO via Bharatkosh. Manufacturing licenses (COS-8) cost a few thousand rupees at the state level instead. Both approvals are built to last long-term rather than [...]
BEE Star Rating Registration for ceiling fans is mandatory in India since January 2023 under the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) Standards & Labelling programme, governed by IS 374:2019. Manufacturers and importers first complete company registration on the BEE portal, followed by testing of each fan model at a NABL-accredited [...]
Introduction EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) Plastic Waste registration is a mandatory Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) authorisation under the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 — as amended in 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026 — for every Producer, Importer, and Brand Owner (PIBO) that places plastic packaging in the Indian market, [...]
