DGFT may, through a notification, adopt and enforce any measure necessary for:-
- Protection of public morals.
- Protection of human, animal or plant life or health.
- Protection of patents, trade marks and copyrights and the prevention of deceptive practices.
- Prevention of prison labour.
- Protection of national treasures of artistic, historic or archeological value.
- Conservation of exhaustible natural resources.
- Protection of trade of fissionable material or material from which they are derived; and
- Prevention of traffic in arms, ammunition and implements of war.