RESERVE BANK OF INDIA
A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No.133
June 20, 2012
To
All Category - I Authorised Dealer Banks
Madam / Sir,
Annual return on Foreign Liabilities and Assets
Reporting by Indian Companies – Revised format
Attention of the Authorised Dealer (AD) Category – I banks is invited to A. P.
(DIR Series) Circular No.45 dated March 15, 2011 wherein, it was, inter-alia,
stipulated that the annual return on Foreign Liabilities and Assets (FLA) is
required to be submitted directly by all the Indian companies which have
received FDI and/or made FDI abroad (i.e. overseas investment) in the previous
year(s) including the current year, to the Director, External Liabilities and
Assets Statistics Division, Department of Statistics and Information Management
(DSIM), Reserve Bank of India, C-8, 3rd floor, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra (E),
Mumbai - 400 051, by July 15 of every year.
- The Annual Return on FLA is now modified as
attached. An easy-to-fill soft
form of the return with guidance to users and in-built validations is now being
made available on the RBI website (www.rbi.org.in → Forms category → FEMA Forms)
which can be duly filled-in, validated and sent by e-mail, by July 15 every
year. Any queries related to filling of annual return should be e-mailed. These
directions will come into force with immediate effect. AD Category-I banks may
bring the contents of this circular to the notice of their constituents and
customers concerned.
- Necessary amendments to the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of
Security by a Person Resident outside India) Regulations, 2000 and the Foreign
Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of any Foreign Security) (Amendment)
Regulations, 2004 notified
vide Notification No. FEMA 20/2000-RB dated May 3,
2000 and
Notification No. FEMA 120 dated July 07, 2004, respectively will be
issued separately.
- The directions contained in this circular have been issued under sections
10(4) and 11(1) of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (42 of 1999) and
are without prejudice to permissions / approvals, if any, required under any
other law.
(Rudra Narayan Kar)
Chief General Manager
RBI/2011-12/613