These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 2 of the Product Regulation and Metrology Act 2025 in order to implement Article 7.7.9 (National Treatment - Conformity Assessment) of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of India, signed in Buckinghamshire on 24 July 2025.