The Indian AEO Programme is governed by circular 33/2016-Customs dated 22.07.2016. Multiple suggestions have been received from various Industry field formations, wherein it has been emphasised that the compliance requirements for AEO T1 are not commensurate with the benefits allowed to AEO T1 entities.
Accordingly, Annexure for AEO T1 application i.e. Annexure A, C, D, E1, E2, E3 & E4 of circular 33/2016-Customs dated 22.07.2016 had been replaced with the Annexure 1 and Annexure 2 of circular 26/2018-Customs dated 10.08.2018.
Thereafter, All applications for AEO T1 are to be mandatorily filed in form of annexure 1 & 2. Alongside, to implement the simplified processing and to ensure its desired effectiveness, it had been decided that the process of accreditation of AEO-T1 shall be decentralized to the Zonal level. In this decentralized scheme of work, the AEO- T1 application will be filed with the Zonal AEO Cell (as already been done by virtue of Circular 03/2018- Cus). The said application will be processed by the Zonal AEO cell and the final acceptance or rejection will be decided by Zonal AEO Programme Manager [designated Pr. Commissioner/Commissioner rank officer in Customs Zone nominated by Pr. Chief Commissioner/ Chief Commissioner, Customs]. The Zonal AEO cells will only intimate the decision of Zonal AEO Programme Manager to Directorate of International Customs for generation of certificate [with relevant information of the applicant - Name, IEC Number & PAN] and statistics management.
The digitization of processing of AEO T1 application is already live on https://www.aeoindia.gov.in/
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