Unit Approval Committee Set up to Review EOU Performance

[DGFT Public Notice No. 04 dated 23rd August 2010]

In exercise of powers conferred under paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-14, the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby makes the following amendments in the Handbook of Procedures (Volume 1) .

1. Para 7 of Appendix 14-I-G shall be substituted as under:-

“7. Joint Monitoring of EOU units:

a) The performance of EOUs would be reviewed by the Unit Aapproval Committee on six monthly basis i.e,. April-September each year to be completed in the following quarter on the basis of QPRs/APR to be furnished by the EOUs. The formats of QPR/APR have been prescribed in the LUT at Appendix 14-I-F.

b) Review of NFE of EOUs would be conducted by the Unit Approval Committee.

c) For publicizing the scheme, advertisement in the local papers may be arranged before the date of such meetings. Promotion programmes may be organized in collaboration with local industry, Association or any other organization, which has good presence in the area. General Manager of District Industries Center may be associated.

d) For each existing unit, review should be done at length to understand their problems and their possible resolution. Efforts should be made to identify the reasons for shortfall/poor performance and unit-wise action plan should be prepared for removal of bottlenecks. It should be ensured that the unit should have an export promotion strategy as well tentative targets for next few years, so that it has an idea as to what is to be achieved by them. Effective action should be taken against erring units to discourage any misuse of the scheme.

e) For units under implementation, separate review be held so that their issues could be resolved.

f) At such places, if any infrastructure gaps are noticed, District Administration may be advised to prepare projects, which can be routed through State Government to the Ministry for approval under Scheme for central Assistance for Developing export infrastructure and other allied activities (ASIDE).

g) Based on the joint review Development commissioner concerned would prepare a report for information of the Department of Commerce and CBEC and suggest corrective measures to enable the defaulting units to fulfill their obligation as per EOU Scheme/Customs Notification”.

2. Appendix 14-II shall be deleted.

3. ANF 8 shall be amended by inserting therein Annexure III appended to this Public Notice.

This issues in public interest.

Annexure III

Disclaimer Certificate for Deemed Export Benefits

I, (Name & designation) ……on behalf of M/s…….(Name and address of the supplier) hereby certify that we have supplied the following goods to M/s……(Name and address of the recipient):

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We are the manufacturer exporters/suppliers and are registered/not registered with Central Excise and have not availed CENVAT facility in respect of the aforesaid supplied goods. We have also not availed of rebate on the raw material used for manufacture of said goods.

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We are the suppliers and our supporting manufacturer(s) is/are registered/not registered with Central Excise and have not availed CENVAT facility in respect of the aforesaid supplied goods.

We also certify that we have not been issued any Advance Authorization/Duty Free Import Authorization in respect of the aforesaid supplied goods and have not availed any benefit therein. (applicable in respect of draw back claims).

We further state that we have not drawn nor will draw any benefit for deemed export and we have no objection if M/s……(Name and address of the recipient) draws the deemed export benefit on the supplies mentioned above.