Implementation of Notification No. 107/2016 - Customs (N.T.) dated 11.08.2016- Uploading the Departure Manifests by the Airlines (Carriers)- - Customs - Public Notice 05/2017

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE, DEPARTMENT OF REVENURE OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS AIRPORT AIR CARGO COMPLEX COMMISSIONERATE DEVENAHALLI, BANGALORE 560 300 C No. VIII/48/ 150/2016-17 AP Date: 15.05.2017 Public Notice 05/2017 Sub: Implementation of Notification No. 107/2016 - Customs (N.T.) dated 11.08.2016- Uploading the Departure Manifests by the Airlines (Carriers) reg. Attention of all the International Airlines Operators and their service providers is drawn to Board's Notification No. 107/2016- Customs (NT) dated 11.08.2016 wherein carriers are required to transmit electronically the pre check-in Passenger Manifest twelve hours before the departure of ht eflight and the Final Passenger Manifest delivered fifteen minutes before taking off of the flight from the port of embarkation in India, to the Indian Customs in flat file format or in United Nations/ Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport Passenger List Advance Passenger Information (UN/EDIFACT PAXLST API), in the structure annexed to the said Notification. In this regard, the Board has held consultations and carried out tests with some of the carriers and their service providers in respect of submission of electronic transmissions. It has now been decided that with effect from 15.05.2017 all carriers shall start transmitting electronically the manifests for the outbound passengers 15 minutes before leaving or taking off from the port of embarkation in India to the Indian Customs in a flat file format. This format is identical to the one being presently transmitted by the carriers in respect of the inbound/ arriving international passengers. It has also been decided that the carriers would carry out the necessary modifications in their systems in order to generate and submit the additional outbound passenger manifests to be transmitted 12 hours before the scheduled flight departure within a period of 6 months i.e. by November, 2017. The airlines and their service providers are hereby directed to follow the above instructions scrupulously. Difficulties if any in the implementation of the said instructions may be brought to the notice of the undersigned. (R. B. TIWARI) PRINCIPAL COMMISSIONER