Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities), (Second Amendment) Rules 2022

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• Recently, the Union govt. has amended the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) 2011 Rules. 

About The Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities), (Second Amendment) Rules 2022

• It has allowed the electronic products to declare certain mandatory declarations through the QR Code for a period of one year, if not declared in the package itself.
  • Earlier, all the pre-packaged commodities including the electronic products were required to declare all the mandatory declarations as per the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities), Rules 2011 on the package. 
•  The amendment will allow the industry to declare the information in digital form through the QR Code.
  • It will allow important declarations to be declared effectively on the label in the package while the other descriptive information can be conveyed to the Consumer through the QR Code.

Aims 

• To improve ease of doing business and reduce the compliance burden for the electronic industries.

Source:PIB