Uploading of Adjudication & Appellate Orders on the DGFT website - DGFT - ECA Circular No. 01

File No. 18/82/2018-19/ECA-1 Government of India Ministry of Commerce and Industry Department of Commerce Directorate General of Foreign Trade Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi ECA Circular No. 01 Dated 08.02.2019 To All Regional Authorities (RAs)/ SEZs Subject: Uploading of Adjudication Appellate Orders on the DGFT website This refers to the instructions issued on this subject whereby RAs were advised to upload all the Adjudication/Appellate Orders passed by them on the website of the respective Zones. Instances have come to the notice of DGFT where such Orders are not being regularly uploaded by the concerned Zonal offices. A need has been felt to have a system to have all such Orders passed under the FT(DR) Act, 1992 by all the authorities available at one place rather than posting at the websites of different Zones. Therefore, it has been decided that all the Adjudicating/Appellate Authorities in DGFT RAs SEZs would upload such orders on the DGFT website immediately on issue of such Orders. In this regard, a new link has been created in the DGFT website and following guidelines are prescribed: (i) Go to 'Act Rules' in the DGFT website. (ii) Open link 'Orders passed by RAs/SEZs.' (iii) Upload the Adjudication/Appellate Order on this link in PDF format. (iv) All past Orders passed by the Adjudication/Appellate authorities w.e.f. 1 st April, 2018 should be uploaded within a period of IS days from the date of issue of this order. (v) All heads of the RAs/SEZs should ensure that there is no missing order pending for uploading. A confirmation to this effect be sent to Head quarters at e-mail: rajbir.sharma @nic.in by 28 th Feb, 2019. (vi) The existing procedure to mark a copy of Order to CEIB shall continue. (vii) It should be ensured that Order uploaded should be clear, readable and complete with all the pages uploaded in a right sequence. (viii) All RAs/SEZ would receive a separate e-mail allotting user 10 Password for accessing the link. (ix) ECA Dvn. PC-VI of DGFT Headquarters would ensure that the Appellate Review Orders passed by DGFT w.e.f. 01.04.2018 are also uploaded within the above said timeline by accessing the link Orders passed by DGFT . This issues with approval of the Director General of Foreign Trade. (R.P. Goyal) Additional Director General of Foreign Trade