PRAG & ASSOCIATES

20 (RE-2013)/2009-2014 dt. 13/06/2013

Central Government hereby authorizes the officers for the purposes of exercising powers under Section 13 read with Section 11 of the FT(DR) Act, 1992.

TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (ii)
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
NOTIFICATION No. 20 (RE-2013)/2009-2014
New Delhi, dated the 13^th June, 2013

S.O. (E), In exercise of the powers conferred by section 13 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 (22 of 1992) and in supersession of the earlier Notifications mentioned below, the Central Government hereby authorizes the officers specified in column 2 of the table below for the purposes of exercising powers under Section 13 read with Section 11 of the FT(DR) Act, 1992, subject to the limits specified against such officers in the corresponding entry in column 3 of the said Table, namely:-

TABLE

S. No	Designation of Officer	Value of goods or services or technology covered by an authorization issued, registration certificate/ permits issued for import or export or in respect of goods or services or technology for which import or export is permitted without any authorization
1.	Additional Director General of Foreign Trade	Without limit
2.	Joint Director General of Foreign Trade	Up to Rs.25 crores
3.	Deputy Director General of Foreign Trade/ Assistant Director General of Foreign Trade	Up to Rs.10 crores
4.	Development Commissioner, Special Economic Zones	Without limit in respect of Export Oriented Units and units in Special Economic Zones
5 .	Designated Officer, Department of Electronics & Information Technology	Without limit in respect of units in Software Technology Parks (STPs) and Electronics Hardware Technology Parks (EHTPs).

Previous Notifications which stand superseded:

Notification S.O.24(E) dated 20^th January 1999
Notification S.O. 194(E) dated 6^th March 2000
Notification S.O. 106(E) 30^th January, 2006
Notification S.O. 1534 dated 14^th September, 2006
Notification S.O. (E) dated 17^th April, 2009

(Anup K. Pujari)
Director General of Foreign Trade
Email: dgft@nic.in

(Issued from File No.01/69/594/007/2008/OM1/O&M)

Opinion

These notification seek to amend the notification no.102 (RE 2008)2004-09 by specifying the new monetary limits for various officers for exercising of powers.

TABLE

S. No.	Designation of Officer	Value of the goods in relation to which the power may be exercised.	Value of goods or services or technology covered by an authorization issued, registration certificate/ permits issued for import or export or in respect of goods or services or technology for which import or export is permitted without any authorization.
		Prior	Amend
1	Additional Director General of Foreign Trade	Without limit	Without limit
2	Joint Director General of Foreign Trade	Up to Rs.25 crores	Up to Rs.25 crores
3	Deputy Director General of Foreign Trade/ Assistant Director General of Foreign Trade	Up to Rs.10 crores	Up to Rs.10 crores
4	Development Commissioner, Special Economic Zones	Without limit in respect of Export Oriented Units and units in Special Economic Zones	Without limit in respect of Export Oriented Units and units in Special Economic Zones
5	Designated Officer, Department of Electronics & Information Technology	Without limit in respect of units in Software Technology Parks (STPs) and Electronics Hardware Technology Parks (EHTPs).	Without limit in respect of units in Software Technology Parks (STPs) and Electronics Hardware Technology Parks (EHTPs).