Excise duty on articles of jewellery: procedural and compliance changes implemented via new notifications and clarifying circulars. The CBEC accepted the Sub-Committee report and issued Notifications and Circulars implementing excise-duty measures on articles and parts of jewellery: prescribing a duty rate and classification criteria, providing specified partial exemptions for reconversion and mounting with customer-supplied items, revising SSI exemption and eligibility limits, excluding certain handicrafts, notifying tariff values and Collection of Duty rules, and amending Central Excise, CENVAT and registration/returns requirements; Circulars clarify SSI computation, audit guidelines, export procedures, general compliance procedures and enforcement measures.