Municipal Corporation of Delhi Notified as Pre-shipment Inspection Agency of Canned Meat Products Exports

[DGFT Notification No. 48 dated 18^th May 2011]

Subject: Addition of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) as preshipment inspection agency for export of meat.

In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 (No.22 of 1992) read with Para 2.1 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-2014 (as amended from time to time), the Central Government hereby amends, with immediate effect, Note 4 in Chapter 2 below the subject heading “Meat and Edible Meat offal” of Schedule 2 of ITC(HS) Classification of Export and Import Items, as amended from time to time.

2. In Chapter 2 of Schedule 2 of ITC(HS) Classification of Export and Import Items, Note 4 below the subject heading “Meat and Edible Meat offal” is amended to include the name of Municipal Corporation of Delhi(MCD) as the pre-shipment inspection agency for export of meat. The amended Note 4 will read as under:

“Note 4: Export of canned meat products shall be subject to preshipment inspection either by the State Directorate of Animal Husbandry or Export Inspection Agency or Directorate of Marketing and Inspection Government of India or Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) in accordance with either the standards prevalent in the exporting country or standards prescribed under the Meat Food Products Order, 1973 under Export (Quality Control and Inspection) Act, 1963 or orders made thereunder”.

3. Effect of this notification:

Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is being added to the list of agencies/ Directorates, who have been notified to carry out Pre-shipment inspection of Meat (of buffalo, goat or sheep) for export.