Please refer to our A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 78 dated February 15, 2012 on risks arising from the deficiencies in AML/CFT regime of certain jurisdictions. 2. Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has issued a further Statement on February 16, 2012 on the subject (copy enclosed). 3. Authorised Persons (Indian Agents) are accordingly advised to consider the information contained in the enclosed statement.4 . This, however, does not preclude Authorised Persons (Indian Agents) from legitimate transactions with these countries and jurisdictions.
A. P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 107 Please refer to our A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 77 dated February 15, 2012 on risks arising from the deficiencies in AML/CFT regime of certain jurisdiction.2. Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has issued a further Statement on February 16, 2012 on the subject (copy enclosed). 3. Authorised Persons are accordingly advised to consider the information contained in the enclosed statement.
Circular No. 965/08/2012-CX Your kind attention is invited to Notification No. 56/2002-CE dated 14.11.2002 which provides for exemption from the duty of excise to specified goods cleared from industrial units in the State of Jammu & Kashmir to the extent of duty paid in cash by way of a refund mechanism, for a period of ten years from the date of publication of the notification or from the date of commencement of commercial production, whichever is later. The exemption is available to new units which have commenced commercial production on or after 14.06.2002 as well as existing units which have undertaken substantial expansion or have made new investments for employment generation on or after 14.06.2002.
It has been decided to carry out consequential amendments to Clause 41 of the Listing Agreement regarding interim disclosure of financial results by listed entities to the stock exchanges, which has been drawn from the format under Schedule VI of the Companies Act, 1956. Accordingly, the format for the said disclosure has been given in Annexure.
The attached document is a draft circular containing details of proposed amendments to harmonize the ER-1, ER-3 and ST-3 returns so that a single common return can be prescribed instead of these three returns as measure of simplification of the Business Processes in respect of filing the Return by assesses. The draft is being placed in public domain for widest possible circulation and an extensive debate from all stakeholders in trade and industry as also from all the field formations of the department. All suggestions and feedback from Trade as well as Field formations, may please be emailed at dircx1@nic.in or at vp60singh@gmail.com latest by 15th May 2012. The feedback and suggestions received would be considered for revising the proposed amendments.
SEBI has commenced processing of investor complaints in a centralized web based complaints redress system ‘SCORES’. Pursuant to SEBI Circular no. CIR/OIAE/2/201 1 dated June 03, 2011 on the captioned subject, all listed companies are required to obtain authentication on SCORES.
SEBI simplified the account opening process for investors and made it uniform across intermediaries in the securities markets vide aforementioned circulars. Further, to avoid duplication of KYC process with every intermediary, KRA system was developed for centralization of the KYC records in the securities markets. The system was made applicable for new clients who opened accounts with the intermediaries from January 1, 2012.
In the event of disaster, the disruption in trading system of stock exchanges / depository system may not only affect the market integrity but also the confidence of investors. In order to address this issue, the current BCP – DR setups of some of the stock exchanges having nation-wide terminals and depositories were examined by the Technical Advisory Committee of SEBI (TAC). Based on the recommendations of TAC, the broad guidelines for BCP – DR are given below:
I am directed to invite your attention to the Board’s Circular No. 12/2006- Customs dated 20.2.2006 and the earlier instructions issued to the field formations vide Board’s letters F. No. 711(7)/53-Cus. (AS) dated 27.5.1993, F. No.30/33/67-LC.I dated 19.1.68 and F.No.30/3/64-LC.I dated 10.2.1964 in the matter of disposal of
Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) has concluded an Agreement dated July 21, 2011 with the Ecowas Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), making available to the latter, a Line of Credit (LOC) of USD 150 million (USD one hundred and fifty million) for financing eligible goods, services and equipments including project exports and consultancy services, to be exported from India to the 15 member countries of EBID in West African region viz. Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo
