PUBLIC NOTICE No. 40(RE-2007)/2004-2009 dated 30.8.2007
Amendments in para 3.2.2 Application for grant of Status Certificate
In exercise of powers conferred under Paragraph 2.4 of the
Foreign Trade Policy 2004-2009, the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby
makes the following amendments in Handbook of Procedures, Vol.I :
1. The last sentence in para 3.2.2 is replaced as under:
“ All Status Certificates shall be valid for a period of 5 years reckoned from
the 1st April of the relevant year. All Status Certificates valid beyond
31.3.2009 shall continue to remain in force, in case provisions of Foreign Trade
Policy (2009-14 continue to recognize the status.
Pending the finalization of the applications for grant of recognition, existing
status holders who have applied for recognition before the expiry of their
status, shall have a grace period of 6 months. During this grace period of 6
months such status holders shall continue to be recognized as Status holders
even after the expiry of earlier Status Certificate i.e. till September end,
unless their applications are finally rejected or recognition granted as once
again the case may be.”
This issues in Public interest.Sd/-
(R.S. GUJRAL)
Director General of Foreign Trade
(Issued from File No. 01/94/180/85/AM08/PC-1)
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