Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Excise & Customs
Circular No.21/2009-Customs
North Block, New Delhi - 1.
4th August, 2009.
To
All Chief Commissioners of Customs.
All Chief Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise.
All Directorate General under CBEC.
All Commissioners of Customs.
All Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise.
Subject: Provisions relating to EDI infrastructure under the “Handling of Cargo
in Customs Areas Regulations, 2009”– regarding.
Sir / Madam,
A reference is invited to the “Handling of Cargo in Customs Areas Regulations,
2009” (referred in short as ‘regulations’) and the circular No.13/2009-Customs
dated 23.3.2009 issued indicating the salient features of the regulations.
- In Regulation 5(1)(j), the requirements of adequate Air-conditioned space and
other facilities such as power back up, hardware, networking and other
equipments for secure connectivity with Customs Automated Systems and for
exchange of information between Customs community partners was specified to be
provided by the applicant for custody and handling of imported or export goods
in a customs area. Further, the aforesaid requirements have also been explained
in detail in para 5.2 of the above mentioned circular.
- In this regard, it is clarified that in addition to the infrastructure
required to be provided as mentioned in para 5.2 of the circular
No.13/2009-Customs, the custodian shall provide networking, communication
equipments, Uninterrupted Power Supply System, computers, PCs, dump terminals,
servers, printers and other computer peripherals as may be specified by the
Directorate General of Systems. To this extent, the last line of the paragraph
5.2 of the circular No.13/2009-Customs may be treated as modified as follows:
“5.2. As regards the requirement of the Customs EDI Systems under Regulation
5(1)(j), the infrastructure required to be provided by the custodian shall
include the Civil and electrical infrastructure including properly
air-conditioned office space……. shall also be provided. (last line modified is
as follows) In addition to the above, the custodian would be required to
undertake site preparation including civil works, electrical works, electrical
fittings, air-conditioning, etc. they would also provide DG Set for power back
up and link to the EDI Server. The networking, communication equipments,
Uninterrupted Power Supply System, Computers/Personal Computers/Thin Clients,
servers, printers and other computer peripherals as may be specified by the
Directorate General of Systems shall also be provided by the custodian.”
- Any difficulties in implementation of these Regulations may be brought to the
notice of the Board immediately.
Yours faithfully,
(M.M. Parthiban)
Director (Customs)
Internal circulation as usual.
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