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Introduction
With the establishment of the World Trade Organisation in 1995 and implementation of Agreement on sanitary and Phyto-sanitary (SPS) measures, countries all over the world started enforcing stricter measures to protect health and safety of their consumers by introducing regulatory import controls, especially in the food sector. Introduction of regulatory import controls has been causing problems to the Indian exporters in terms of multiple inspection, rejections and recall/ destruction of consignments not conforming to their requirements. This has made the role of Export Inspection Council (EIC) and Export Inspection Agencies (EIAs) more relevant in the context of Indias efforts to set ambitious export targets and to achieve them. up the pre-shipment inspection and certification activity. In addition, EIC also designates inspection agencies and laboratories to supplement its own activities as required. The main functions of EIC are (i) to advise the central government regarding measures to be taken for enforcement of quality control and inspection in relation to commodities intended for export and (ii) to draw up programmes for quality control and inspection of commodities for exports. In the changing Global Scenario, as Indias trading partners are installing regulatory import controls, the EIC has re-fashioned its role to develop voluntary certification programmes besides regulatory export control, especially in food sector. The Council is seeking recognition for its certification by official import control agencies of its trading partners, as per provisions of WTO agreements, to facilitate easier access to their markets for Indian exporters.
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Certificates of Origin
EIC/EIAs continued to issue Certificates of Origin under various preferential tariff schemes. A total of thirteen schemes were operated by the EIC / EIAs during the year 2010 2011. During the year 2011 2012 two new preferential tariff schemes, namely India Malaysia CECA and India Japan CEPA became operational effective 1st July 2011 and 1st August 2011 respectively. As on date, EIC / EIAs are issuing preferential certificates of origin under the following 15 schemes. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Generalized System of Preferences Global System of Trade Preferences Asia Pacific Trade Agreement SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement FTA between India and Sri Lanka India Afghanistan FTA India Thailand FTA India Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement South Asian Free Trade Area PTA with Chile India MERCOSUR PTA India Korea CEPA ASEAN India FTA India Malaysia CECA India Japan CEPA
Strengthening Manpower
EIC continued its efforts to train both the internal manpower as well as have Awareness programme for the industry. Till March 2011, 5 programme were held for internal manpower in which 112 persons were given exposure. The basic areas which were covered included certificate of origin, dairy products, fish & fishery products, HACCP, computerization, laboratory testing etc. Following major activities were undertaken in the field of Human Resource during the year: Approx. 75 officers from EIC/EIAs and other government departments participated in the training programme held on Sustained Training Mission on EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASSF) in India. Training on validation as per 657/2002/EC was imparted to about 50 lab officials of EIAs/govt./ private laboratories. An awareness programme on Food Safety & Quality was conducted in association with Quality Council of India and Ministry of Food Processing on 28 October 2010 at Porbandar. About 100 participants from Jamnagar, Rajkot, Porbandar, Veraval and nearby areas attended this programme, which was inaugurated by the Director, EIC. A 3-Day Training Programme on Awareness & Internal Auditing as per ISO 9001 : 2008 was
Whereas for the year 2010-11, the EIAs issued 11,04,111 preferential tariff certificates under
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held in EIC during 27 February 1 March 2011. The programme which was conducted by M/s Systems & Training, Mumbai was attended by 12 officers from EIC/EIA-Delhi. It was an effort to sharpen the auditing skills of the internal auditors so that effectiveness of the internal audit process could be enhanced. One day awareness programme on Certificate of Origin was organized for exporters by EIADelhi in Feb 2011 at New Delhi.
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Exports
The value of exports certified by the EIAs during the year 2010-11 was ` 13,775.03 crore. During AprilDec 2011, the value of exports certified by the EIAs was ` 9755.32 crore as given in Table 6.2 : The EIAs have also been authorised to issue various types of certificates for consignments exported such as Health, Authenticity, Non-Genetically Modified Organism, etc.
Table 6.2 Products Certified for Exports during April Dec 2011
Group/Product Name Fish & Fishery Products Basmati Rice Black Pepper Egg products Milk & Milk Products Poultry Honey Chemical & Allied products Engineering Others Schemes Total Source: Department of Commerce Value of product certified (` crore ) 6060.69 261.97 97.75 129.03 1100.70 73.31 195.50 36.17 87.98 1732.22 9775.32
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certification. Testing is mostly carried out for samples collected for the purpose of inspection & certification and are generally not charged separately, while some amount of samples are tested for other government departments and industry on cost basis.
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