The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), on October 6, 2026, under Rule 15(1) of the Bureau of Indian Standards Rules, 2018. The notification announces the establishment of revised and new Indian Standards across industrial equipment, maritime safety glass, freight containers, information technology, surgical instruments, electronic components and audiometric equipment.
The standards established on October 5, 2026 include revised specifications for industrial towing trucks (IS 5008:2026), toughened safety glass for ships’ round windows (IS 6180:2026), freight container vocabulary (IS 6569:2026), transport tractors and trailers (IS 7774 (Part 1):2026), Ada programming language (IS 13792:2026), toner cartridge yield testing (IS/ISO/IEC 19752:2025), surgical staplers (IS 19902 Parts 1 and 2:2026), quantum computing vocabulary (IS 19909:2026), print cartridge characterization (IS/ISO/IEC 29142-1:2021), fixed resistors (IS/IEC 60115-2-10:2023) and audiometric equipment (IS/IEC 60645-7:2025).
For the superseded standards listed in the notification, withdrawal is scheduled for April 5, 2027, allowing the existing and revised standards to remain in force concurrently until that date. The two surgical stapler standards and the quantum computing vocabulary standard have no previous standards listed for withdrawal in the provided extract. Relevant manufacturers, importers and other stakeholders should review the applicable standards and prepare for the scheduled transitions.
[BIS Notification Ref. HQ-PUB013/1/2020-PUB-BIS (1620)]
