REGISTRATION OF CONTRACTS FOR EXPORT OF ORGANIC EDIBLE OILS - Indian Laws - TRADE NOTICE

Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Ministry of Commerce, Government of India) June 29, 2012 TRADE NOTICE REGISTRATION OF CONTRACTS FOR EXPORT OF ORGANIC EDIBLE OILS Vide Notification No 50 (RE-2010) 2009-2014 dated June 03, 2011 , issued by Director General of Foreign Trade, Govt. of India, New Delhi (DGFT) the export of Organic Edible Oils is allowed subject to the following conditions: 1. Quantity limit shall be 10,000 tonne per annum. 2. Exports shall be allowed only from Customs EDI Ports 3. It should be duly certified by Certification Bodies (CB) accredited by APEDA as being organic edible oils 4. Export contracts should be registered with APEDA, New Delhi prior to shipment APEDA accordingly has laid down the following procedure for the Registration of the Contracts and issuance of Registration-cum-Allocation Certificate (RCAC) for the export of Organic Edible Oils. PROCEDURE Application for Registration of Contracts for export of Organic Edible Oils, in the prescribed format as at Annexure I, will have to be sent by post by the exporters to the Cereal Division, Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), 3rdFloor, NCUI Building, 3 Siri Institutional Area, August Kranti Marg (Opp.Asiad Village), New Delhi 110016 CERTIFICATION It would be mandatory for the exporters to furnish, along with their application a copy of each of the Scope Certification Provisional Transaction Certificate obtained from one of the Certification Bodies accredited by APEDA under National Programme for Organic Production (as listed in Annexure II) The guidelines issued by APEDA to the Certification Bodies in this respect may also be seen at Annexure III PROCESSING CHARGES Processing charges ₹ 25 per MT of the contracted quantity shall be paid by the applicants. This amount shall be paid by Demand Draft/ Pay Order drawn in favour of APEDA. All applications for registration of contracts should be accompanied by Demand Draft/Pay Order of requisite amount. REGISTRATION The applications shall be scrutinized in the office of APEDA and a Registration-Cum-Allocation Certificate (RCAC) shall be issued to the applications for quantity contracted. DESPATCH DETAILS While registering a new contract online exporters are required to provide details of actual shipments made against RCACs issued in past for export of Organic Edible Oils. RCACs in original with copies of shipping documents are required to be submitted after completion of dispatches against each RCAC. VALIDITY The RCAC shall be valid for a period of 45 days for shipment AMENDMENT RCAC once issued will not be amended in respect of the particulars of the buyer and FOB price. Asit Tripathy Chairman PROFORMA FOR RCAC EDIBLE OIL(ORGANIC) Annexure 1 PROFORMA FOR RCAC PULSES (ORGANIC) Annexure 1 COMPANY NAME APEDA REGN. NO IEC CODE PRODUCT PRODUCT CATEGORY PULSES ORGANIC LC/ CONTRACT NO VALIDITY DATE QUANTITY PORT OF ORIGIN DESTINATION PORT IMPORTER s NAME IMPORTER s ADDRESS EXPORTER s CATEGORY CERTIFICATE TO BE DISPATCHED BY DIRECT POST COURIER QTY APPLIED (MTS) FOB VALUE PER MT (IN US$) PAYMENT MADE TO APEDA A/C @RS 25/-PMT DD NO DD NO DATED TOTAL AMOUNT BANK NAME BRANCH CERTIFYING AGENCY UNDER NPOP/NOP Scope Certificate No. Date : TRANSACTION CERTIFICATE NO. DATE: (copy of Scope certificate and Transaction Certificate to be attached) Signature of Exporter Date: _____________ Applicant: ______________ Annexure III June 22, 2011 To, All Certification Bodies, Accredited by APEDA, Under the NPOP Under Subject : Guidelines for Certifications of Organic Edible Oils for Exports This is to inform you that Govt. of India, vide DGFT Notifications No.50 (RE-2010) 2009-2014 dated June 03,2011 has now permitted the export of 10,000 MT of Organic Edible Oils per financial year 2011-12 upto 31/03/2012 ( a copy of the DGFT Notifications is enclosed for reference) As per the procedure, place on the APEDA website (http://203.196.130.19/apedawebsite/miscellaneous/Trade_Notice_Organic_Pulses.pdf), the exporters are required to submit an application to APEDA for issue of registration-cum-allocation certificate(RCAC). In respect of export of organic edible oils, the applications are required to be accompanied by a Transaction Certificate. These documents can be issued by accredited certification bodies authorized for specific markets as per the scope of accreditation. In case of certain markets, in-conversion organic products are not allowed to be imported. Therefore, to verify this aspect the application also needs to be accompanied by the Scope Certificate indicating the organic status of the produce. The exporters have been advised to provide these documents while submitting their application for issue of RCAC. You are requested to please comply with the requirements stated above. For the sake of convenience, we are enclosing the formats of the scope and transaction certificates for different markets. You are also requested to advise the exporters on the above lines while certifying their products referred to above. Yours faithfully, S.Dave Director