SEZ multi-product area requirement increased, with larger contiguous land and mandatory processing-area earmarking under amendment. The amendment substitutes the multi product SEZ area requirement to mandate a contiguous land area between one thousand and five thousand hectares, with a reduced threshold of two hundred hectares for specified hill, northeastern, small-state and Union Territory locations, and requires at least fifty per cent of the area to be earmarked for the processing area. It omits a specified clause from the operational rules and alters the wording of a prior amendment notification; the rules commence on Gazette publication.