It has been brought to our notice that some of the UCBs have made contributions which are in the nature of donations to the Trusts for charitable or benevolent objective or for any exhibition in which the directors or relatives are interested. In view of this, UCBs are, with immediate effect, prohibited from giving donations to Trusts and Institutions, where directors, and/or their relatives hold position or are interested, even within the permissible ceiling of 1% of the published profits of the bank for the previous year.
These Guidelines shall be applicable in case of investment / trading by CRAs and Access Persons connected to CRAs and in case of disclosures to all employees of CRAs.
A concept note in respect of the disposal of pending assessments/audits up to the period 2010/2011 was circulated to all the Additional Commissioners and had been discussed with the senior management of the department in various meetings.
The said guidelines shall be in addition to the provisions, if any, contained in respective regulations/ circulars issued by the Board from time to time regarding dealing with conflict of interest, in respect of such entities.
I am directed to invite your attention to notification No. 12/2012-Central Excise (S. Nos. 337&338), dated 17-03-2012, which provides exemption to machinery, instruments, apparatus and appliances etc. required for setting up of ultra-mega/ mega power projects.
SEBI vide circular SEBI/MRD/Policy/SE/15864/2003 dated August 21, 2003 advised stock exchanges to obtain an undertaking in the form of an affidavit from the members of the stock exchange stating that the members as well as their sub-brokers are using only authorized software.
During the audits conducted for the F.Y. 2008-09 various functional officers have given the feedback that in most of the cases, the buyers or sellers were able to reconcile sales and purchases when auditing officers had verified parameters in relation to cross-matching of annexure J2 with annexure J1.
The ceiling for FDI in ARCs has been increased from 49% to 74% subject to the condition that no sponsor may hold more than 50% of the shareholding in an ARC either by way of FDI or by routing through an FII. The foreign investment in ARCs would need to comply with the FDI policy in terms of entry route conditionality and sectoral caps.
Attention is invited to provisions of Handling of Cargo in Customs Area Regulations (HCCAR), 2009 which deals with the manner of receipt, storage, etc of import and export goods in a Customs Area.
Government of India and the Reserve Bank of India have been receiving several requests for clarifications on the operational aspects of the scheme of imports put in place in terms of the above circular. There have also been representations to change certain aspects of the scheme. Taking into account all these representations and in consultation with the Government of India, it has been decided to issue the following clarifications/modifications in supersession of all the earlier instructions:
