BECOME AN EXPORTER -MPEDA f English @ MPEDA 23/12/2021, 16:58 BECOME AN EXPORTER REGISTRATION OF EXPORTERS AND OTHER ENTITIES POWER TO REGISTER Registration of Exporters, Fishing Ves £ unctions of MPEDA under Section 9(2) (b) and (h) of the MPEDA Act 1972. els and other Processing entities is one of the statutory v =XPORTERS Registration as an exporter is granted under section 9(2) (ht) of MPEDA Act 1972 read with rules +0-42 of MPEDA Rules, 1972. The exporters are categorized into four, vi 1. Manufacturer Exporter — is an owner of an approved processing plant, or an approved fishing vessel having onboard processing facilities, or live fish handling facility, or chilled fish handling facility or dried fish handling facility. 2. Merchant Exporter — is an exporter who does not own a processing plant, but utilizes the surplus capacity of an approved processing or handling facility. 3, Route through Merchant Exporter — is an Export House or Trading House or Star Super Star Trading House, possessing a certificate of approval issued by ‘Trading House oF the DGFT 4, Ornamental Fish Exporter — is an exporter who exports only ornamental fish but not an exporter of live marine products for human consumption. The marine products permitted to be exported are classified into 8 categories as given below: 1. Frozen Marine Products hitps:impeda.govin/?page_id=436 ano23/12/2021, 16:58 BECOME AN EXPORTER -MPEDA BS FE <4.) MPEDA Q 4, Live Marine Products, other than Ornamental Fish 5. Dried Marine Products 6. Chilled Marine Products 7. Ornamental Fish 8, Others (Edible)/(Non-Edible) FISHING VESSELS and PROCESSING ENTITIES 1, Fishing Vessels 2. Processing Plants 3. Storage Premises 4, Conveyance 5, Pre-Processing Centres 6. Live Fish Handling Centre 7. Chilled Fish Handling Centre 8, Dried Fish Handling Centre 9, Independent Cold Storages f » PROCEDURE FOR REGISTRATION ° For online registration please visit the link below o http://e-mpeda.nic.in/registration/Reg_login.aspx 1. MANUFACTURER EXPORTER Every application for registration in exporter of marine products shall be made online in Form IX and each application and shall be accompanied by the list of enclosures indicated in the application (Form IX). Every application for registration as an exporter shall also be accompanied by a fee of Rs. 5,000/-. Application will be automatically submitted to the concemed registering office under whose jurisdiction where the Registered or Head Office of the applicant is located. The application shall be submitted with online payment of application fee of Rs. 5000/- uploading the following documents: 1. Passport size photograph of the applicant 2. Proof of address hitps:impeda.govin/?page_id=436 210sarees, 188 BECOME AN EXPORTER -MPEDA GB wo MPEDA Q 4, Original of the joint undertaking by the owner of the Processing Plant and Handling Facility 5. Original Registration Certificate of Processing Plant and Handling Fac 6. Original Registration Certificate of Storage premises for endorsement 7. Fee for endorsement 8, Certificate from Scheduled Bank showing financial soundness 9. Copy of the Certificate of Importer Exporter Code(IEC) issued by DGFT 10. Registration fee of °5000/- 11. Copy of the purchase order Nature of the organization 1, Whether it is a body corporate, or partnership firm or proprietary concern, 2. Capital employed 3, Tumover expected in the next 3 years 4, Copies of Balance Sheet for last two years, 5. Connection with any other seafood processing units by any of its Directors / Partners or Proprietor. (should be clearly indicated) 6. Whether a Manufacturer exporter / Merchant Exporter / Route-through merchant exporter / Omamental fish exporter f 7:15 there any foreign holding? Give details ¥ 8 Ifconsortium, give names and registration numbers of participant exporters jm 9. Ifthe applicant is manufacturer exporter, registration number of processing plant @ 10-BIA Code number ofthe plat 11. SSI Re} 12, Items processed ration number, if any, of the plant 13. Has the applicant a sales agent or overseas representative or an overseas office 14. Does the exporter represent any overseas importer? If so, names & addres f importers and length of time for which he had so represented. 15. Whether the exporter applied for MPEDA Registration on earlier occasion / has his Registration subjected to cancellation or has he been debarred from export by CCI & E? If so, please give details. 16. Brand name (s) of products to be exported. Submission of the application 1. If the applicant is a sole Proprietary concern, the proprietor or his agent will have to submit the application. In case of agent, an authorization in favour of the agent signed by the Proprietor (power of attorney) should be uploaded. hitps:impeda.govin/?page_id=436 ano23/12/2021, 16:58 BECOME AN EXPORTER -MPEDA 4 B G@ MPEDA Q of attorney) signed by one of the partners will have to be uploaded. 3. In case ofa body corporate any of the directors or attorney of the body corporate shall submit the application. The power of attorney must be produced along with the certificate of incorporation. 4, The verification portion of the application also to be submitted by the same person who has submitted the application since what is meant by verification here is only a declaration. The test is that the person who submits has the power to bind the company or firm. This has to be decided by registering authority on the facts of each case. If an employee submits, then obviously it will be necessary for him to have an authority for registration from the owner, partner or director. Signature of owner, partner or director is acceptable. Processing of application If the application with supporting documents and brand name of the product is submitted, certificate of registration as an exporter of marine products can be granted to the applicant according to provisions of the Guidelines. Field offices concerned, on receipt of applications along with all its enclosures for registration as an exporter as per guidelines, may process the same and complete the checklist. While submitting be application online or otherwise, it is expected that all the information given online are true -nd correct and the officer recommending the registration shall be responsible for any omission v wt commission. & -fthe application with supporting documents and brand name of the product is submitted, © crtiticate of registration as an exporter of marine products can be granted to the applicant according to provisions of the Guidelines, Utilizing the surplus capacity of a Processing Plant or Handling Facility: 1. A Manufacturer Exporter shall enter into a regular written agreement with the owner valid for one year. 2. The manufacturer exporter who utilizes surplus capacity of a processing plant or handling facility will have to execute a joint undertaking with the owner of the plant or handling facility in stamp paper worth Rs, 50/- to the effect that they will be fully responsible for the marine products processed, packed and stored in their premises. The validity period shall conform to the provisions of paragraph 7 of the New Guidelines issued vide Office Order dated 23rd July 2004 and 27th June 2005 of MPEDA for issue of Certificate of Registration as an Exporter. Not more than 2 merchant or manufacturer exporters (3, if the owner hitps:impeda.govin/?page_id=436 4n0aviazon, 1888 BECOME AN EXPORTER -MPEDA a Q |) MPEDA wow (a) in plants having freezing, canning or freeze-drying capacity of 5 MTs and below per day, only the owner (or if he does not wish to process and export, one merchant or manufacturer exporter only) will be permitted to pack marine products. (b) In plants having freezing or freeze drying capacity of LOMTs or below but above SMTS, apart from the owner, only one merchant or manufacturer exporter will be permitted. If the owner does not wish to process and export, one more merchant or manufacturer exporter can be permitted in his place. (c) In plants having freezing or freeze drying capacity of above 10 MTs per day, the owner and a maximum of two merchant or manufacturer exporters will be permitted, If the owner does not wish to process and export, one more merchant or manufacturer exporter can be permitted in his place, When a Manufacturer Exporter ceases to utilize surplus capacity of a processing plant or handling facility, the name and number of the exporter shall be deleted from the certificate of registration of processing plant / handling facility and storage premises by the owner. Concurrence of the exporter is not necessary for the deletion of his name from the registration certificate ‘When a Manufacturer Exporter surrenders his processing entitlement in his own plant, the f v -xporter registration certificate issued to him as Manufacturer Exporter shall be cancelled. When a Manufacturer Exporter surrenders his processing entitlement in his own plant and utilizes © urplus egistration certificate issued to him as Manufacturer Exporter shall be cancelled and a new ;pacity of another processing plant he shall become a Merchant Exporter. The exporter certificate as a Merchant Exporter shall be issued if he fulfills all the requirements as per guidelines. 2. MERCHANT EXPORTER Merchant Exporter is an exporter who does not own or operate a Processing Plant or handling facility but utilizes the surplus capacity of a processing plant or handling facility and whose name has been endorsed on the certificate of registration of processing plant or handling facility. Regional and Sub-regional Offices shall not register new Merchant Exporters and the application and supporting documents complete in all respects shall be forwarded to Head Office online for further action. hitpssimpeda.govin’?page_id=436 51023/12/2021, 16:58 BECOME AN EXPORTER -MPEDA GE ww MPEDA Q 2 HIKILIUI a peliuU OF 2 Yeats WIPE 1Or eHIULEMy accoUMauEty au 101 honouring the settlement in cases of quality complaints and trade disputes. If the merchant exporter has prematurely terminated an earlier agreement, he shall be given only one more chance to enter into another agreement. Merchant Exporters shall fulfill the following conditions highlighted in the guidelines for obtaining exporter registration: 1. The certificate of regist ssued to a Merchant Exporter shall indicate the ration as an exporter name and number of the Processing Plant / Handling Facility and the Storage premises the production from which alone the holder is allowed to export. re . The name and number of the Merchant Exporter utilizing the surplus capacity of Processing Plant or Handling Facility shall be endorsed on the certificates of registration or Processing Plant / Handling Facility and Storage premises. 3, Merchant Exporters shall enter into a regular written agreement with the owner of the Processing Plant or Handling Facility. f v 5, ROUTE THROUGH MERCHANT EXPORTER toute Through Merchant Exporter is an Export House, Trading House, Star Trading House or super Star Trading House approved by the Director General of Foreign Trade. Regional/Sub-regional Offices may afier duly filling the check lists for verification of application for registration as a Route Through Merchant Exporter issue certificate online to those who holds tus of either a certificate of approval issued by the DGFT indicating that the firm is having the e, or a Trading House, or a Star Trading House or a Super Star Trading House. 4. ORNAMENTAL FISH EXPORTER Omamental Fish Exporter is an exporter of ornamental fish and aquatic plants only. hitps:impeda.govin/?page_id=436 ano23/12/2021, 16:58 BECOME AN EXPORTER -MPEDA Q Mcoonng pasust 19 @ VUHUHIRY ait PECHISES WOHDE ULE as pot Ic planuatus tars UUWi Uy UIE Buropean Union/MPEDA and approved by the Inter Departmental Panel whercin a freezing unit or any other processing machinery is installed for processing marine products in any form. Every application for the registration of a processing plant shall be made to the Secretary or other officer authorized by him in Form II obtainable from the offices of the Authority on payment of Rs, 200/-, Application for registration of Processing Plant will have to be submitted to the registering office having jurisdiction over the location of the plant. Application for noting the lien of financial institutions will be made in Form II(i). A copy of the standards prescribed for processing plant has to be supplied with application. The documents required along with the applications are: 1. Project report 2, Plant layout 3. Declaration 4 Permission from the Local body to run such proces ing unit Certified copy of Title deed a Clearance Certificate from the Pollution Control Board, other documents, if any, as required by the registering authority. 7. Names & addresses of owners/Partners/Directors/Trustees etc. (documentary evidence in support of ownership) enw List of machinery @ 6. PRE-PROCESSING PLANT / PEELING SHED Pre-processing plant / Peeling shed is a building constructed as per the standards laid down by the MPEDA where the marine products are peeled or otherwise subjected to pre-processing, Secretary or other authorized officers are empowered to exercise powers of registration, In the case of pre-processing plant/peeling shed where the registered office of the applicant is located in a place which is different from the actual location of the pre-processing plant/peeling shed, the Registering Office will be the office having jurisdiction over the location of the pre-processing plant/peeling shed hitpssimpeda.govin’?page_id=436 7023/12/2021, 16:58 BECOME AN EXPORTER -MPEDA ee MPEDA Q Storage may be deemed to be the premises where marine products, either frozen, canned or dried ey) MeN are stored for commercial purposes. The application, in Form II on payment of °200/-, in duplicate shall be submitted to the concemed Regional / Sub-regional Offices, Trade Promotion Office having jurisdiction over the location of Storage Premises irrespective of location of Regd /HO with Registration Fee and other enclosures. 8. FISHING VESSELS Fishing Vessel means a ship or boat fitted with mechanical means of propulsion which is exclusively engaged in sea-fishing for profit. Vide Notification dated 15th February 2007, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry inserted the following definition viz: 1, ‘Freezer vessels’ mean vessels where fishery products are frozen and stored for further processing and packing on land. 2. ‘Fishing vessels’ mean vessels engaged in fishing activities where fishery products are f stored in optimal conditions for further processing, freezing and packing on land. Y che application in triplicate Form-I and in duplicate I(a) duly filled in will be submitted to the & oncemed Regional Office along with the layout or blue print of the vessel showing deck area. 9. CONVEYANCE Every application in duplicate, Form LV, duly filled in must be submitted to the concemmed Registering Office under whose jurisdiction the address as given in the registration certificate issued by the local Transport Authority is indicated, along with a fee of °1500/- and other documents like layout, insurance details, copy of the first page of the R.C. Book ete. Application for noting the lien of the financier will be made in Form IV. A copy of the standards prescribed for conveyance has to be supplied with application. hitps:impeda.govin/?page_id=436 ano23/12/2021, 16:58 BECOME AN EXPORTER -MPEDA é Q a) MPEDA rw and export to countries other than EU shall be made to the Secretary or other officer authorized by him in Form II(b) obtainable from the offices of the Authority on payment of °200/- for each set of application, Application for registration of fresh/chilled fish handling centre will have to be submitted to the registering office having jurisdiction over the location of the centre. A copy of the norms prescribed for fresh / chilled fish handling centre has to be supplied with application, 11. PREMISES FOR HANDLING LIVE FISH Every application for registration of a live fish handling centre engaged in handling or fattening any trade varieties of fishes including molluses and crustaceans meant for human consumption shall be made to the Secretary or other officer authorized by him in Form II(c) obtainable from the offices of the Authority on payment of °200/- for each set of application, Application for registration of premise to handle live fish will have to be submitted to the registering office having jurisdiction over the location of the establishment. A copy of the norms prescribed for premise to handle live fish has to be supplied with application. 12, ESTABLISHMENT FOR HANDLING AND PACKT DRIED/SALTED MARINE PRODUCTS “very application for registration of an establishment for packing of dried /salted marine products -hall be made to the Secretary or other officers authorized by him in Form II(d) obtainable from he offices of the Authority on payment of '200/- for each set of application. Application for OF egistration of establishment for handling dried / salted marine products will have to be submitted o the registering office having jurisdiction over the location of the establishment. A copy of the norms prescribed for dried / salted marine products handling establishment has to be supplied with application. 13, INDEPENDENT/COMMON ICE PLANTS Secretary or other authorized officers are empowered to exercise powers of registration. In the case of Independent/Common Ice Plants where the registered office of the applicant is located in a place which is different from the actual location/base of operation of the establishment/handling centre, the Registering Offices will be the office having jurisdiction over the location of the Ice Plant. Visits: 18672 hitps:impeda.govin/?page_id=436 9no23/12/2021, 16:58 BECOME AN EXPORTER -MPEDA Copyright © 2021 MPEDA. All Rights Reserved, Designed & Developed by BWORLD enw @ hitpssimpeda.govin’?page_id=436 10110