Exemption from cost recovery charges requires meeting facility-specific staffing and performance norms, with prospective waivers and no outstanding charges. The Circular prescribes facility-specific staffing matrices for Sea Ports, Air Cargo Complexes, Courier Terminals, Diamond Plazas and Class-based Airports to be sanctioned on cost recovery basis, and sets dual performance benchmarks (cargo/value and document counts, or flights and passengers for airports) whose satisfaction in the preceding two financial years makes a facility eligible for consideration of exemption from payment of cost recovery charges, subject to prospective effect and absence of outstanding charges.