The Synthetic & Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council

Non-requirement of submission of Hard copy of application at RAs for issue of Advance Authorisation (AA) & EPCG Authorisation

Circular No.ES/43/2019-20                                 May 17, 2019                  

To: Members of the Council           

Sub:  Non-requirement of submission of Hard copy of application at RAs for issue of Advance Authorisation (AA) & EPCG Authorisation

Dear Member,

We are glad to inform that O/o DGFT has issued Policy Circular No. 23/2015-20 dated 15th May, 2019 regarding non-requirement of submission of hard copy of application at Regional Authority (RAs) for issue of Advance Authorisation (AA) & Export Promotion Capital Goods (EPCG) Authorisation.

It has been observed by DGFT that almost every RA requests the exporter to submit the hard copy of the Advance Authorisation / EPCG application & then these authorisations are processed on receipt of hard copy only, since the facility to upload documents in the online ECOM application was not available.

In this regard, members may kindly make a note of the following –

  • NIC has now created an ‘upload document’ facility in Advance Authorisation & EPCG ECOM modules to remove the time lag between online application & receipt of hard copy in the DGFT Regional Authority (RA),

  • Exporters filing online AA & EPCG applications will, In addition, need to upload supporting documents also as prescribed in ANF /FTP /HBP w.e.f. 20th May, 2019,. Hence, exporters will not be required to submit hard copy of the AA/EPCG application and its related documents to the DGFT RA.

  • RAs would examine / process such ECOM applications based on the information & documents filed online by the exporter & issue AA/EPCG within the laid down timelines of 3 working days.

  • If the basic prescribed documents have not been uploaded online by the exporter or in exceptional cases where additional document / information is needed for further clarity or decision making, RA may issue an online deficiency letter.

  • Exporters can log in the Online ECOM module & view the deficiency raised online.

  • Although the exporter can submit the reply in writing at the RA counter / post but for a quick response from the RA, it is desirable that exporter also submits the deficiency reply by email to the official email id of the concerned RA [with RA File no. in the subject line] along with necessary scanned documents as attachments.

  • After issue of Advance Authorisation under Para 4.07 of HBP 2015-20 (Self declared Authorisations where SION does not exist) it is the responsibility of the applicants to send two (2) sets of complete application [along with the PDF copy of AA, Appendix 4E, production/consumption data and other related documents which will help in fixation of ad-hoc norms] directly to the FTDO of the concerned Norms Committee (NC) in the 0/0 DGFT, Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi-110011 for ratification / fixation of the norms.

  • Details of Norms Committee(s) along with products groups dealt by each Norms Committee are laid down in Para 4.06 (i) of HBP, 2015-20.

  • In case, the application details are not made available by the exporter applicant to the concerned NC on time, the process of fixation of ad-hoc norms will get delayed.

  • Non-availability of application with supporting documents beyond a reasonable period of say 2 months will lead to rejection of the case by the Norms Committee.

Members may kindly make a note of the above.

Thanking you,            

Yours faithfully,

S.BALARAJU
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR