Single Window Project-clearance of food consignments by Customs officers at locations where FSSAI has provided delegation -reg. - Customs - 08/2016

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS (PREVENTIVE) 5th Floor, Central Revenue Building, Bir Chand Patel Path, Patna-800001 C. No. VIII (48)05-16/CUS/TECH/Public Notice/2011/9391-9400 Dated: 20.09.2016 PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 08/2016 Subject : -Single Window Project-clearance of food consignments by Customs officers at locations where FSSAI has provided delegation -reg. Attention of all the Importers, Customs Brokers, Members of the Trade and all concerned is invited to CBEC's Circular No. 03/2016 dated 03.02.2016 and Circular No. 10/2016 dated 15.03.2016 regarding the operationalisation of Single Window Interface for Facilitating Trade(SWlFT) from 01st April 2016 at all EDI Locations throughout India. 2. Under the Single Window, upon filing of the Integrated Declaration, the Bill of Entry is automatically referred to concerned agency (ies) for a No Objection Certificate (NOC). The system allows the simultaneous processing of Bill of Entry by PGAs and Customs. 3. In consultation with the PGAs, risk -based selectivity criteria are being introduced into the Risk Management System (RMS), whereby consignments will be referred to PGA(s) for NOC based on risk. Thus, for low-risk consignments, the required NOC by the PGA will be waived. For such consignments, the system will prompt of the relevant screen and print on the Bill of Entry that Agency NOC for this consignment has been waived . For these facilitated consignments, Customs officers should not refer manually to PGAs for NOC. However in exceptional cases where there are valid reasons for referring such cases to PGAs for NOC, the same shall be done with the approval of the concerned Assistant/Deputy Commissioner of the LCS. 4. Further, based on risk criteria and delegation of authority by the PGAS, the RMS will generate instructions regarding documentary checks and/or inspection/examination, drawal of samples etc, which will appear on the relevant screens of the Customs officers. 5. Importers, Trade and CHAS are advised to correctly declare all information in the Integrated Declaration, including the intended end-use/purpose of import and all the relevant product details in order to ensure that the system processes the declaration correctly, without causing hassles to trade. 6. Any difficulties faced by field formations pertaining to above issues may kindly be referred to Commissioner of Customs (Prev.), Patna/Single Window Project -team, CBEC, New Delhi. (V.C. Gupta) Commissioner Customs (P), Patna