The obligatory inspection applicant shall apply to the BSMI to monitor an inspection for commodities subject to monitoring inspection and shall obtain an inspection certificate, except for the commodities subject to random inspection as identified by public notice.
Where a term of validity must be indicated in the inspection certificate set forth in the preceding Paragraph, the term of validity applicable to various categories of commodities shall be determined and made known to the public by BSMI per public notice.

If a commodity subject to monitoring inspection may be deemed to be in conformity with the inspection requirements based on its (unique) characteristics or a satisfactory report of a specific number of batch-by-batch examination, the monitoring inspection of such commodity may conducted in the manner of batch-by-batch verification, random-selected batch inspection, release after document examination, or a specific monitoring program.

A commodity subject to monitoring inspection may be exported or imported only when the management and inspection systems of the production premises thereof have been examined to comply with the requirements of provisions.
In case the production premise set forth in the preceding Paragraph is located abroad, a letter of recommendation of such production premises issued by the competent authority or an inspection organization recognized by the BSMI, either being located in the same country of such premise, shall be required.　In addition, the BSMI may send its representative to make an on-site survey at such premise.
Regulations governing the qualification requirements of the production premises set forth in the preceding two Paragraphs, the procedure for filing an application for examination of production premises, and relevant administrative matters shall be prescribed by the competent authority.

Regulations governing the registration, procedures for filing monitoring inspection applications, the implementation methods, the issuance of certificates (new or replacement), and other compliance matters shall be prescribed by the competent authority.

For a commodity subject to monitoring inspection as designated and made known to the public by the BMSI per public notice, where the management system of the production premises and inspection system comply with the requirements established by the BSMI after examination and approval, the manufacturer of the commodity concerned may perform the inspection on its own in accordance with this Act and issue, with counter-signature, monitoring inspection certificates and submit periodically the certificate issuing records to the BSMI. For the production premises of commodity concerned located outside the territory of the Republic of China, the obligatory inspection applicant shall submit the inspection records to the BSMI for approval before issuing the monitoring inspection certificates.
Regulations governing the requirements for production premises, the application procedure of the approval, suspension/revocation/rescission and other compliance matters mentioned in the preceding Paragraph shall be prescribed by the competent authority.

The provisions set out in Article 18, Article 19, Article 21 through Article 27 of this Act shall apply mutates mutandis to the monitoring inspection procedures.