What is Legal Metrology Certificate or LMPC?

LMPC is packaging law in India, meant to regulate the packaging requirements of the pre-packaged commodity sale or distribution in India. The food items, pharmaceuticals items or any other items may have specialised requirements in their governing act say pharmaceutical products have to follow additional requirements given under Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940. Any importer that imports any pre-packed commodities to distribute or sell, then he needs to apply for the importer registration under rule27 of the Legal Metrology Packaged Commodities Rules (LMPC Rules), 2011. Under this registration, the importer needs to inform to the Government that what pre-packed products he shall be importing in India. The technical name of the LMPC registration is “Importer Registration under Rule 27”, some people call it “Legal Metrology Certificate”, some call it “Importer Registration under Legal Metrology”. Since this registration is required under the LMPC Rules, 2011 the customs authority popularly called it “LMPC Certificate”.

Why LMPC is needed?

The Legal Metrology Pre-Packed Commodity Registration is mandatory for the importers of every pre-packed commodity. The compliance of packaging commodity rules has to be done before the goods are imported in India. Under these rules, importers have to ensure that certain mandatory declarations are made on the pre-packed commodities. Vide DGFT’s notification No. RE-44 of year 2000, the custom authorities were empowered by the Government to check whether the legal metrology compliances by the importers have been fulfilled or not, any non-compliance by the Importer under Legal Metrology may lead to the stoppage of the import shipment, which makes it crucial to the importers to obtain the legal metrology registration well before any imports.

Type of LMPC Certificate?

There are two kinds of LMPC registrations under the Legal Metrology Pre-Packed Commodity Rules, 2011.

LMPC Importer Registration under rule 27: This registration shall be required by you if you are importing the Pre-Packed Commodities and sell them in India without any further Packaging and Labelling activity.
LMPC Packer & Manufacturer Registration under rule 27: This registration shall be required by you if you are manufacturing and packing the goods or you are getting manufacture of goods from third party and gets it packed in your own brand.

Documents required for LMPC Registration:

1. Business Entity Proof.

a. For Private Limited/OPC/Section 8/Public Limited: Certificate of Incorporation, AOA & MOA

b. For LLP: Certificate of Incorporation & LLP Deed.

c. For Partnership: Partnership Deed.

d. For Proprietorship: GST Certificate/ Trade License/ Gumastha

2. Owner's Documents:

a. For Private Limited/OPC/Section 8/Public Limited: All Director's PAN, Aadhar.

b. For LLP/Partnership Firm: All Partner's PAN, Aadhar

c. For Proprietorship: Owner's PAN, Aadhar.

3. I.E.C. (Import Export Code)

4. GST Certificate

5. Importing Goods List

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