Regulatory, Market Access, & Quality Compliance Services

We deliver regulatory affairs, market access, quality compliance, clinical development, authorized representative, product safety certification, testing and sourcing solutions. 

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Enabling Compliance Across Asia Pacific

Cisema is your trusted adviser for navigating the complexities of the Chinese and APAC markets. Our teams of experts provide comprehensive solutions, ensuring your products meet all the necessary requirements for success. With Cisema, you can confidently accelerate your market entry, comply with local regulations and successfully achieve your business goals.

Our services span regulatory consulting to quality compliance, from clinical development to China compulsory certification (CCC) and quality product sourcing.

How We Help Our Clients

Covering the entire product lifecycle, we provide a comprehensive range of services, from one-off project-based deliverables to specialist regulatory consulting or ongoing partnership solutions for larger initiatives.

With extensive experience across many industries, Cisema helps clients meet regulatory requirements across the Asia Pacific region while maintaining their product quality and achieving customer satisfaction. Our regulatory consultants guide clients through complex regulatory frameworks, identifying potential challenges and risks, avoiding non-compliance, and improving efficiency across regulatory processes.

We support drug applications, reporting obligations, and post-market requirements, ensuring alignment with local requirements and the expectations of regulatory agencies. Whether providing strategic advice or on-site support, our team helps you develop tailored solutions that meet customer expectations and ensure long-term reliability.

At Cisema, we understand that excellence in regulatory compliance makes a real difference. Our experts combine deep knowledge and proven practices to strengthen your compliance systems, streamline interactions with authorities, and ensure your product reaches the market faster and without delays.

From regulatory intelligence to ongoing compliance, we partner with customers to create efficient, future-proof solutions. Let us help you navigate China’s complex regulatory landscape — with clarity, confidence, and a commitment to results.

How We Help Our Clients

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Development & Strategy Consulting

Cisema experts will guide you at every stage of product development, ensuring compliance, strategic alignment and a successful market entry. We facilitate interactions with regulatory agencies to streamline the approval process.

Market Access

We guide you through the Life Sciences reimbursement landscape, ensuring full regulatory compliance while accelerating approvals. Our team crafts strategic pricing plans, conducts budget impact analyses, and supports NRDL (drug reimbursement) negotiations to optimize your success. 

We also assist with exporter regulatory requirements such as certification documentation, custom codes, pre-submission prerequisites and much more.

Regulatory Affairs

We recognize the complexities and challenges of handling regulatory affairs across China and the wider APAC region. From strategic planning to engaging with regulatory authorities, our consultants offer full-spectrum support across the regulatory journey. We act as your authorized representative across the region.

Medtech CRO: China Clinical Trials, Clinical Evaluation & Observational Studies

Cisema experts will guide you at every stage of product development, ensuring compliance, strategic alignment and a successful market entry. We facilitate interactions with regulatory agencies to streamline the approval process.

Vigilance & Post-Market Surveillance

Ensuring patient safety and meeting not only Chinese but also global regulatory requirements can be challenging.
With strong regulatory intelligence and deep expertise in local and regional safety standards, we support clients in developing reliable monitoring systems, ensuring continuous compliance, and achieving long-term quality and success throughout the product lifecycle.

Quality & Compliance (Control, Assurance, Inspection)

We provide reliable guidance to ensure your products are compliant market-ready. 

By strengthening quality systems and helping you prepare for and navigate regulatory on-site and remote audits, we ensure seamless quality control, assurance, and compliance across the region. 

Product Sourcing Agent

We are your trusted sourcing partner in China and across Asia Pacific, connecting you with a vast network of verified, pre-approved suppliers across diverse industries. 
Our sourcing experts manage supplier identification, negotiation, and quality control. Your team can focus on core operations while we streamline and optimize your supply chain.

Ready to Navigate Complexity & Achieve Success in China and Across Asia Pacific?

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Who We Help

To provide the best services to our clients, we divide our expertise and innovative solutions across 8 business sectors. Learn more about how we can help you navigate the region's complexity according to your specific needs.

Medical Devices

We help businesses navigate the evolving Medical Device ecosystem with our extensive expertise. From Clinical Trials to Product Registration and Post-Market Surveillance - learn how we can support your success.

In-vitro Diagnostics

With typically stricter clinical validation requirements, our team helps to ensure your IVDs pass all the evaluations necessary to enter the markets and remain compliant.

Pharmaceuticals

We support the entire product lifecycle, from target identification through implementation, product extension, and redevelopment, by enabling efficient innovation launch, regulatory submission, and commercialization.

Biotech

We provide regulatory support for biopharma submissions, covering classification, clinical trial alignment, GMP compliance, import licensing, and engagement with regulatory authorities. Our expertise helps you understand evolving guidelines, traceability requirements, and HGR regulations to accelerate approval and market access.

Cosmetics

We support cosmetic and ingredient manufacturers throughout the full product lifecycle, from pre-registration to post-market. Acting as your “responsible person,” our qualified Cosmetics Quality & Safety Managers handle filings, registrations, ingredient code applications, and testing. We ensure quality compliance and assist in preparation for regulator's audits.

Health Foods & Supplements

From sound regulatory strategies to preparing registrations and filings to supporting new raw material approvals, we help bring your products to market smoothly. Our team oversees quality compliance, inspection readiness, and testing of supplements, health foods, and raw materials in accredited local labs, ensuring your products meet all regulatory requirements.

Veterinary Drugs & Pet Food

We support veterinary drug and pet food manufacturers with registration, import licensing, and compliance. As your local representative, we handle regulatory authority interactions, oversee applications for new ingredients, ensure GMP standards, and manage product testing in certified labs, guiding you from market entry to post-launch.

Industrial Goods & 
Consumer Products

We support companies across many industries with regulatory consulting for products such as electronics, machinery, automotive parts, telecom devices and toys. As your local representative, we handle China certifications, manage authority interactions, coordinate testing and inspections, and support documentation, renewals, and ongoing compliance, guiding you from market entry to post-launch.

Learn More About Cisema

Regulatory Affairs Consultants, Cisema, are here to help you access China and Hong Kong

Founded over 20 years ago, we’re proud to remain a family-owned business. Thanks to our personal approach and deep expertise, we’ve helped companies of all sizes, from ambitious startups to industry leaders, to enter and comply with the Chinese and APAC markets successfully. Discover more about us and how you can how you can benefit from our unique expertise.

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April 18, 2026

China Manufacture License Renewal for Level A2 Pressure Vessels

How Cisema Supported Inox Torres Group, S.L. in Successfully Renewing its China Manufacture License (SELO) for Level A2 Pressure Vessels

The China Manufacture License (CML), also known as the SELO license, is a mandatory requirement for manufacturers of pressure equipment intended for the Chinese market. Inox Torres Group, S.L.’s manufacturing site produces high-pressure vessels falling under the Level A2 scope. This license ensures compliance with China’s stringent quality and safety regulations for special equipment.

The Challenge: Managing SELO Complexity for High-Risk Equipment

Renewing a SELO license for Level A2 pressure vessels required careful coordination across regulatory, technical, and cultural dimensions.

  • Navigating Regulatory Complexity
    Navigating the complex and evolving SELO regulatory framework, particularly for high-risk products under Level A2, required meticulous planning and real-time compliance updates.
  • Ensuring Audit Readiness
    Inox Torres Group, S.L. needed to ensure all documentation and procedures were fully up to date and to select an appropriate demo product that met inspection requirements.
  • Managing Inspector Expectations
    Success depended on understanding the unspoken cultural and procedural expectations of SELO inspectors, including hosting and on-site hospitality.

Our Solution: Full-Spectrum SELO Audit Support

Recognizing the high stakes of SELO license renewal, Inox Torres Group, S.L. engaged Cisema for comprehensive regulatory and strategic support.

  • Reviewed the Quality Management System
    Cisema led the review and upgrade of the customer’s quality management system in line with the latest Chinese requirements, including a comprehensive gap analysis and revision of key documentation.
  • Audit Simulation & Preparation
    A preparatory remote audit simulation was conducted, walking through every step of the audit to ensure full readiness ahead of the on-site inspection.
  • Delivered On-Site Bilingual & Regulatory Support
    During the on-site audit, Cisema provided continuous bilingual support, interpreting inspector questions in real time and translating regulatory nuances for the customer.
  • Provided Culturally Appropriate Inspector Hosting
    Cisema arranged culturally appropriate corporate hospitality, helping establish a respectful and positive tone for the inspection. The team remained onsite throughout all audit days, including the weekend, to ensure no detail was overlooked.

The Outcome: Successful Renewal Without Disruption

Through hands-on execution and close coordination, the SELO renewal process was completed smoothly and efficiently.

  • Secured CML Renewal with Full A2 Status
    Inox Torres Group, S.L. successfully renewed its China Manufacture License for pressure vessels, maintaining its Level A2 classification.
  • Executed the Project Efficiently
    Full regulatory preparation and audit execution were completed within six months.
  • Achieved Seamless Inspector Coordination
    SELO inspectors were hosted and coordinated smoothly, with culturally aligned engagement throughout the audit.
  • Secured Regulatory Continuity  
    The renewal avoided operational disruptions and ensured compliance with updated SELO requirements.

Expertise and Efficiency: Acting as an Extension of the Client Team

Cisema’s experienced consultants acted as an extension of Inox Torres Group, S.L.’s regulatory and quality teams, providing both regulatory expertise and strategic foresight. Inspector concerns were anticipated and addressed proactively, transforming a potentially stressful process into a streamlined, well-orchestrated engagement with Chinese authorities.

Hands-on mentoring throughout the project helped the customer gain confidence and clarity in managing future SELO audits.

Why Choose Cisema

  • Strategic Regulatory Expertise: Deep understanding of Chinese bureaucracy, evolving SELO requirements, and inspector expectations.
  • Mentorship & Training: Step-by-step guidance that supported the customer’s quality team throughout the process.
  • Corporate Hospitality Excellence: Culturally aligned hosting that supports successful audit outcomes in China.
  • Audit Readiness & Precision: Gap analysis, audit simulation, and documentation refinement to pass SELO reviews efficiently.
  • End-To-End Support: Full management of the audit process, from document revision to on-site interpretation.

Further Information

Explore Cisema’s China Special Equipment (SELO) Certification services.

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