Digital PSIC issuance controls require same-day certification, automated inspector authentication, and enhanced inspection evidence uploads.
The PSIA/PSIC process requires same-day electronic generation and issuance of Pre-Shipment Inspection Certificates, with the inspection date recorded in the DD/MMM/YYYY format. Authorised PSIA users may upload inspectors' signature and official stamp images for automatic embedding in PSICs. Inspector details and registered inspection instruments are system-populated and displayed to reduce manual errors. The process also expands permitted inspection photograph and video attachment capacity, while helpdesk channels support users with module-related guidance, issue resolution, suggestions, and feedback.

IT resilience monitoring requires market infrastructure institutions to automate resilience scoring, detect deterioration early, and continuously oversee service delivery.
Market Infrastructure Institutions must implement a system-driven IT Resilience Index to assess critical IT systems and related systems through parameters covering availability, security, integrity, governance, reliability, business continuity and scalability. The index must be computed half-yearly without manual intervention, subject to limited exceptions discussed with the Standing Committee on Technology, and comparative results and corrective actions must be placed before the committee and Governing Board. MIIs must also establish an Early Warning System, continuous service-delivery dashboards and procedures for detecting and addressing disruptions.

Cyber incident reporting adopts a standardised staged portal framework for regulated entities, supporting timely updates and final closure.
SEBI's Cyber Incident Reporting Portal is aligned with the Financial Stability Board's Format for Incident Reporting Exchange framework to standardise cyber-incident reporting. Regulated entities remain subject to existing reporting timelines and must report incidents through the designated email channel and portal. The portal supports staged reporting from initial notification through updates and final closure, using common information fields, standardised definitions and consistent incident classifications. Regulated entities must establish implementation systems and make consequential amendments to relevant bye-laws, rules or regulations where required.

Tariff Rate Quota raw sugar imports require conversion and domestic sale within two months from bill of entry filing.
Tariff Rate Quota imports of raw sugar must be converted into white/refined sugar and sold in the domestic market within a period not exceeding two months from the date of filing the bill of entry. This replaces the earlier requirement to process the imported raw sugar within a reasonable period and sufficiently before a specified date for domestic sale. All other applicable terms and conditions remain unchanged.

Automated Export Obligation extension removes separate regional applications after committee approval, enabling portal-based fee payment and system-generated extension letters.
Automated processing of Export Obligation extension applies to Advance Authorisation and EPCG Authorisation cases approved by the PRC/EPCG Committee. Exporters need not submit a separate EO-extension application to the Regional Authority. After approval, the system issues a fee-payment letter; upon portal payment and submission of the response, it automatically creates and approves the extension file and generates the EO Extension Letter. The revised EO-expiry date is updated in authorisation records and transmitted to ICEGATE.

Customs custodianship for port cargo requires compliance with cargo handling rules until import clearance, warehousing, transhipment, or export.
M/s. Apollo World Connect Ltd. is appointed custodian of imported goods landed at Kamarajar Port, Ennore and received at its container freight station, until clearance for home consumption, warehousing, or transhipment. It is also custodian of export cargo brought into its premises until export from that port. The custodian must comply with section 45 of the Customs Act, 1962, the Handling of Cargo in Customs Areas Regulations, 2009, and applicable instructions.

Customs-area designation enables handling of specified imported container cargo and export cargo under prescribed cargo-handling procedures.
Customs-area designation applies to the premises of M/s. Marine Infrastructure Developer Pvt. Ltd. at Kattupalli for handling imported FCL and LCL cargo arriving from Kamarajar Port, excluding passengers' unaccompanied baggage, and export cargo until export. Import and export cargo must be handled under the Handling of Cargo in Customs Areas Regulations, 2009 and applicable customs public notices.

KYC information sharing enables regulated financial entities to access KRA systems, subject to KYC and data-security compliance requirements.
International Financial Services Centres Authority-regulated entities may access the systems of SEBI-registered KYC Registration Agencies for client KYC, enabling interoperability and information sharing. Such entities are subject to the applicable KRA regulatory framework and must comply with prescribed securities-market KYC norms. For clients registered as Foreign Portfolio Investors, they must also follow applicable data-security guidelines. The framework takes effect immediately.

Digitally signed Powers of Attorney streamline foreign portfolio investor address verification and remove notarisation and authentication requirements.
Foreign Portfolio Investor onboarding permits acceptance of a Power of Attorney digitally signed in accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2000. A digitally signed Power of Attorney issued to a custodian and specifying the FPI's address is admissible as address proof alongside a notarised, apostilled or consularised Power of Attorney. The revised KYC framework removes notarisation, apostillisation and consularisation requirements for digitally executed Powers of Attorney, supporting streamlined digital registration and onboarding from August 20, 2026.

International transshipment safeguards permit diverted bulk cargo storage and re-export under continuous Customs control, anti-diversion conditions and custodian accountability.
International transshipment of FCL and LCL cargo is permitted through seaports, international airports and other Customs stations, subject to Customs compliance and priority verification. Diverted liquid bulk, break bulk and solid/dry bulk cargo may be temporarily unloaded, stored and onward transshipped or re-exported under Customs supervision, approved-custodian custody, inventory controls, testing, quantity verification and suitable bonds or undertakings. Such cargo must remain under Customs control and cannot enter home consumption or the Domestic Tariff Area. Multi-station movement requires prior consent, secure-storage verification and Customs-controlled transport.

Raw sugar tariff rate quotas require capacity proof, domestic refining and sales, with conversion available for qualifying authorisations.
TRQ allocation for raw sugar imports is available to millers and refiners with functional in-house refining facilities, subject to online application, capacity evidence and scrutiny. Allocation considers refining capacity, requested quantity and import history. Holders must submit contractual evidence, import or surrender allocated quantities within prescribed periods, and process imported raw sugar at their own facilities. Every 1.05 kg of raw sugar must yield 1 kg of refined sugar sold domestically within the stipulated period. Eligible Advance Authorisation holders may convert to TRQ upon payment of exempted GST and compliance with domestic-sale and reporting conditions.

Mutual fund registration: consolidated application requires sponsor eligibility, governance disclosures and AMC operational controls across approval stages.
Mutual fund registration uses a consolidated Form A across two stages: sponsor in-principle approval and final AMC registration. Sponsors must establish identity, ownership, beneficial ownership, financial capacity, eligibility-route compliance, management capability, regulatory history, fit-and-proper status, grievance and compliance arrangements, conflicts controls, and trading safeguards. Final AMC registration requires constitutional approvals and disclosures on capital, governance, personnel, business planning, infrastructure, investor services, technology, cybersecurity, continuity planning, risk controls and compliance systems. Applicants must certify the completeness, correctness and regulatory compliance of all information and annexures.

NDCF computation permits debt-funded road maintenance add-backs subject to unitholder approval, auditor certification, and enhanced borrowing disclosures.
NDCF computation for InvITs permits add-back of road-project major-maintenance payments funded by external borrowing at HoldCo/SPV and Trust levels. The add-back requires project-specific unitholder approval, prescribed explanatory disclosures, and statutory-auditor certification that expenditure complies with concession-agreement obligations and is externally debt funded. Periodic reporting must separately identify major-maintenance borrowing, outstanding debt, net borrowing ratio components, and debt maturity profiles.

Online bond platform regulation expands permitted offerings while requiring overseas-product labelling, tax-bond disclosures, and certified compliance officers.
Online Bond Platform Providers may offer products, securities and services regulated by financial-sector regulators, including IFSCA-regulated offerings, and specified capital-gains tax-exemption bonds. Non-SEBI-regulated offerings must follow the respective regulator's requirements and have a stated grievance-redressal mechanism. IFSCA products require FEMA compliance and clear international or overseas labelling. Tax-specific bonds require issuer-based grievance disclosures, material feature disclosures and prominent eligibility-related tax-benefit warnings. OBPPs must appoint a certified compliance officer under the applicable stock-broker framework.

NBFC factoring remittance reporting streamlines IRM identification and enables exporters to self-certify electronic bank realisation certificates.
NBFC Factors remitting foreign-currency factoring proceeds to AD-I Banks must use the specified SWIFT message text so that AD-I Banks do not create Inward Remittance Messages for those funds. For Indian-currency funds released after export-bill discounting without a SWIFT message, customers seeking IRMs must approach the relevant Factor. Exporters may view NBFC Factor-linked remittance data on the DGFT portal and self-certify Electronic Bank Realisation Certificates by matching remittance details with invoices or shipping bills.

Single electronic customs bonds enable nationwide obligation coverage, digital execution and bank guarantee linkage while restricting manual filing.
"Ekal Anubandh" enables importers and exporters to execute a Single All-India Multi-Purpose Electronic Bond through ICEGATE instead of separate transaction-wise customs bonds. Users may select applicable obligations, upload supporting documents, pay stamp duty electronically and complete Aadhaar-based e-signing through NeSL after customs approval. Electronic bank guarantees issued by NeSL-integrated banks may be linked to electronic or physical bonds after validation of the applicant, authorised signatory and bond reference. Manual bonds and guarantees remain an exceptional interim option for documented technical failures, subject to prior approval and limited permissions.

Commodity derivatives stress testing adopts a lower Z-score threshold for replacing extreme historical price movements in clearing risk assessments.
Commodity derivatives stress testing now requires extreme price movements in peak historical return scenarios to be replaced where they exceed a Z-score of 5 rather than 10. Maximum percentage price rises and falls for each underlying over the applicable margin period of risk during the preceding 15 years remain the relevant historical scenarios. Z-scores continue to be calculated using the mean and sigma of returns over that period. The revised methodology applies immediately to recognised clearing corporations in the Core Settlement Guarantee Fund framework.

Enhanced due diligence for dealings with identified Bhutanese firms is advised to mitigate trade and payment risks.
DGFT advises heightened vigilance in dealings with M/s Legoy Powersports, Thimphu, and M/s Druk A-Z Store, Thimphu, following unresolved complaints and lack of substantive cooperation. Trade stakeholders must conduct comprehensive due diligence, assess transaction risks, sensitise trade participants, and consider the concerns when processing applications, extending credit support, providing trade facilitation, or issuing certifications. Adverse experiences, payment-related issues, contractual disputes, and other relevant information should be promptly reported to DGFT.

SCMTR-based manifest amendments become mandatory as supplementary import and export general manifest filings are permanently disabled.
Sea Cargo Manifest and Transshipment Regulations compliance requires all cargo and manifest amendments to be filed through prescribed SCMTR amendment messages from 12 August 2026. Supplementary Import General Manifest and Export General Manifest filings are permanently disabled from that date. Sea carriers, shipping lines, agents, transshippers, terminal operators, custodians, freight forwarders, importers, exporters and customs brokers must ensure that their systems and processes are enabled for SCMTR-based filing and amendment.

Municipal debt securities framework revises private-placement denominations, pooled-finance escrow safeguards, credit enhancement options, and financial-results disclosure timelines.
Privately placed municipal debt securities may have a face value of Rs. One Lakh or Rs. Ten Thousand; lower-face-value securities require fixed maturity and cannot have structured obligations. Pooled finance vehicles and special purpose vehicles must maintain a two-step escrow arrangement, including interest payment and sinking fund accounts, and retain one year's interest obligation in the interest payment account. Listed municipalities must submit half-yearly unaudited results within sixty days and annual audited results with the audit report within ninety days.