Licence renewal date calculator: find when your BIS, EPR, BEE or TEC approval expires and when to file the renewal

Choose the approval, type the grant or last renewal date printed on your certificate, and the calculator adds the validity period and counts back the renewal lead time. It shows three dates: when to file, the validity date, and for BIS the last day before the licence expires.

Validity ranges from one year for a fresh plastic EPR registration to permanent for an IEC. This is the table the calculator uses.

The filing date is the day to submit, not the last safe day. The validity date is when the approval stops covering new goods if it has not been renewed.

For BIS licences the calculator also shows a third date, 90 days after validity. Between validity and that date, BIS may defer the renewal decision if the renewal and late fee arrive; after it, the licence expires^[2]. Manakonline applies the same logic automatically: since 1 January 2023 licences past validity are automatically deferred, and those more than 90 days past validity automatically expire^[16].

Where the calculator shows "does not expire" (WPC ETA, battery EPR, LMPC, IEC), it lists the yearly duty that replaces renewal instead.

Since the amendment of 25 February 2026, a CRS licence is granted for five years and renewed for five, with fees paid every year in advance^[1]. Under the 2018 rules it was granted for two years and renewed for two to five^[17].

Two things follow. First, a licence granted before the change may still carry a two-year validity date; enter the date on your licence and check the printed validity. Second, the five-year term does not mean you can forget it for five years: if the annual fee and production details are not received by the due date, BIS's suspension, deferment and expiry provisions apply^[18].

The CRS renewal guide covers Form VI, and the BIS CRS fee calculator shows the fees.

You pay a Rs 5,000 late fee, you cannot mark or dispatch goods after validity, and after 90 days the licence expires.

For CRS, renewal after the validity date costs a Rs 5,000 late fee and must be filed within 90 days or the licence expires^[2]. After validity, an unrenewed licensee may not mark or dispatch products with the Standard Mark, including stock in hand^[2]. For ISI licences the rule is the same: apply within 90 days with the late fee, no marking or dispatch meanwhile, and marking fee still owed for the whole period^[12].

For importers this is the costly part. Goods in transit when a foreign maker's licence lapses cannot be cleared with a valid registration behind them. Check your suppliers' licences with our guide on how to verify a BIS licence.

MTCTE renewal is a re-filing at the group fee; BEE renewal is per model and is often overtaken by a change in the star table.

MTCTE. Renew at least two months before expiry. Renewal is granted only if neither the Essential Requirement nor the model has changed, and the renewed certificate runs ten years (or two where applicable)^[14]. It costs the administrative fee of the product's group^[14]. See MTCTE fees.

BEE. Label permission is granted for three years and renewal is processed within thirty days, with no fee where the star plan is revised or continued^[6]. But the model's validity also follows the period notified for the appliance's star table^[20]. For example, the refrigerator and ceiling fan tables run from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028^[21]. Use whichever date comes first.

E-waste and plastic EPR registrations expire; battery EPR does not.

• E-waste: valid five years, renew on the CPCB portal 120 days before expiry^[7]. The renewal fee follows the same target-based slabs as the grant^[7].
• Plastic: a fresh PIBO registration lasts one year and a renewed one three years; apply four months before expiry, with all annual returns filed^[8]. The calculator counts four months as 120 days, so treat its date as approximate by a day or two.
• Batteries: the registration certificate is valid until cancelled or withdrawn^[9], but Form 1(C) is due by 30 June every year^[9].

Renewal is not your only EPR date. Returns fall due every quarter and year; see EPR annual returns.

WPC ETA, battery EPR, LMPC and IEC have no expiry date, but three of them carry a yearly duty that works like a renewal.

Your IEC is de-activated, and you cannot clear imports until you update it. An IEC must be updated online every year between April and June, and if nothing changed you must still confirm that^[11]. The update is free^[22].

An IEC that is not updated is de-activated and re-activated once updated^[11]. Separately, any change in constitution, address or bank details must be updated within 30 days^[15]. The calculator shows the next 30 June for any IEC so you can plan the update on the DGFT portal.

Enter BIS CRS and 1 April 2026. The calculator shows validity on 31 March 2031, five years on^[1], and a filing date three months earlier, around 31 December 2030^[2]. It also shows 29 June 2031 as the day the licence would expire if not renewed, 90 days after validity^[2].

It also reminds you that the annual licence fee of Rs 1,000^[23] is paid every year in advance, so the first real date is the next annual payment, not 2030.

A Wi-Fi router importer got its approvals on these dates. Here is what the calculator shows for each.

The calculator does simple date arithmetic from the validity rules. Ask us through the free compliance check when:

• Your licence was granted before February 2026. It may carry a two-year validity under the 2018 rules^[17]. Your printed date wins.
• The licence is suspended. CRS licences under suspension expire if the suspension is not revoked within 180 days^[2].
• The standard is changing. CRS licences can be renewed under IS 13252 (Part 1) or IS 616 only up to 1 November 2028^[24]; after that, renewal means migrating to IS/IEC 62368-1.
• You hold many licences across suppliers. We track dates for importers; see our services or the BIS consultants guide.