4.12 — Entitlement

Maximum CIF value of one or more authorisations to be issued under paragraph 4.07 of Handbook of Procedures shall be as under:

• (i) For Status Holders – up to 300% of FOB and / or FOR value of preceding year’s exports and/or supplies.

• (ii) Other than Status Holders – upto 300% of FOB or Rs. 10 crore and / or FOR value of preceding year’s exports and/or supplies, whichever is higher.

• (iii) Once adhoc norms are fixed by Norms Committee, value limits mentioned in sub paragraph (i) and (ii) above, would not be applicable to Advance Authorisations issued under paragraph 4.07 of Handbook of Procedures. Value of such authorisations, subsequent to fixation of norms by Norms Committee, may be enhanced, if the Advance Authorisation was issued restricting the CIF value to maximum of value in sub-paragraph (i) & (ii) above.

• (iv) In such cases Authorisations shall be issued by Regional Authority concerned under "Adhoc Norms Fixed" category and application copies need not be forwarded to NC for fixation / ratification of norms. Where the application has already been forwarded before the ratification of Norms, the Regional Authority shall finalise the case as per the norms subsequently ratified by NC in a similar case of the party.

• (v) Authorisation holder in such cases shall be entitled for further authorisation (s) as per norms ratified by Norms Committee without need for subsequent ratification by Norms Committee. In such cases the applicant would file application under “Adhoc Norms Fixed” category to the Regional Authority concerned.

• (vi) Norms ratified by any Norms Committee (NC) in the O/o DGFT on or after 01.04.2023 in respect of any Advance Authorisation obtained under paragraph 4.07 shall be valid for a period of three years from the date of ratification. However, the Norms ratified by any Norms Committee (NC) on or after 01.04.2015 in respect of any Advance Authorisation obtained under paragraph 4.07 of HBP, 2015-2020 shall also be valid further upto 31.03.2026.[i] Since all decisions of the Norms Committees are available in the form of minutes on the DGFT website, all other applicants of Advance Authorisation are also eligible to apply and get their authorisations based on such ratified norms on repeat basis during validity of these norms. This

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para is not applicable for authorisations applied for items listed under Appendix 4P.

• (vii) Wherever an applicant has applied for components on “net-to-net basis with accountability clause” and such cases fall under paragraph 6 of General Note for all Export Products, the same need not be referred to Norms Committee for fixation of norms. However, exporters shall indicate clearly details of such components imported on “net-to-net basis with accountability clause” in the export/supply documents namely Shipping Bills, Bill of Exports, Tax invoice for export/supplies prescribed under the CGST/SGST/UT GST rules evidencing that these imported inputs have been exported.