As announced in the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies dated October 01, 2025, it has been decided to rationalize regulations pertaining to External Commercial Borrowing (ECB) included in the Foreign Exchange Management (Borrowing and Lending) Regulations, 2018 issued under FEMA, 1999. Salient features of the proposed regulations are as under:

As announced in the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies dated October 01, 2025, the Reserve Bank had issued the Foreign Exchange Management (Establishment in India of a Branch Office or a Liaison Office or a Project Office or any other place of business) Regulations, 2016, vide Notification No. FEMA 22(R)/2016-RB. dated March 31, 2016. 2. On a review, it has been decided to amend the extant regulations along the following lines:

As announced in the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies dated October 01, 2025, the following changes have been made in the extant directions to provide operational flexibility and ease compliance burden on Exporters, Importers and Merchanting Traders: