India: 2016 Amendment to the Legal Metrology Rules

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On September 7, 2016, the Indian Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution’s Department of Legal Metrology amended the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011.The Amendment empowers Government of India (GOI) and state-level competent authorities to establish prices and quantity limits for retail-sale price of anything deemed an “essential commodity” under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955. This is 2016’s first amendment to the Legal Metrology Rules.

India: 2016 Amendment to the Legal Metrology Rules

 

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South and Central Asia, India
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