Export allocation of non Basmati rice on private account permitted subject to registration, bank guarantee and minimum export price.
Ten lakh metric tonnes of non Basmati rice are permitted for export on private account subject to prior contract registration with DGFT on a first come first served basis, export from privately held stocks, submission of irrevocable confirmed LCs, and a performance bank guarantee equal to ten percent of applied value; individual applications are capped, a Minimum Export Price applies, and allocation, document submission, and issuance of Registration Certificates follow prescribed modalities and timelines with ineligibility for entities on DGFT's Denied Entities List.

Exemption for LR SAM programme equipment: central excise relief conditional on Programme Director certificate and specified expiry.
Exemption added for machinery, equipment, instruments, components, spares, jigs, fixtures, dies, tools, accessories, computer software, raw materials and consumables required for the Long Range Surface to Air Missile (LR SAM) Programme of the Ministry of Defence, provided they are supplied to the Programme LR SAM and, before clearance, a certificate from the Programme Director, Programme LR SAM, is produced to the proper officer; the exemption is subject to a specified expiry.

Denotification of Special Economic Zone withdraws SEZ status for the designated area, subject to prior actions preserved.
Denotification rescinds the prior notification that had designated the 24.055 hectare area at Village Kalapatty as a sector specific Special Economic Zone for information technology and information technology enabled services, exercising powers under the proviso to the applicable SEZ rules to withdraw the SEZ designation for the entire area while preserving actions taken or omitted before rescission.

Registration authority for Large Taxpayer Unit amended: applications now to Assistant/Deputy Commissioner or Superintendent depending on Act.
The amendment substitutes paragraph 3, item (iv) of notification No.20/2006-Central Excise (N.T.) to require that applications for new LTU registration be made before the Assistant Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise, Large Taxpayer Unit, for registrations under the Central Excise Act, 1944, and before the Superintendent, Large Taxpayer Unit, for registrations under the Finance Act, 1994, replacing the earlier requirement to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Central Excise, Large Taxpayer Unit.

Return of excisable goods and CENVAT credit: specified monthly and quarterly formats mandated, detailing production, clearance, payments and credits.
Notification prescribes Form E.R.1 as the monthly return and Form E.R.3 as the quarterly return for reporting production, clearance and availment/utilisation of CENVAT credit. Each form requires registration and assesse details, itemwise tables showing CETSH, quantities, assessable value, duty particulars including ad valorem and specific rates, provisional assessment references, challan and BSR information for payments, account current summaries, and detailed CENVAT credit ledgers capturing credits taken and utilised including inter unit transfers under rule 12BB and Large Taxpayer reporting.

Minimum Export Price for onions raised, tightening export pricing requirements and maintaining higher rates for select onion varieties.
Amendment establishes a revised Minimum Export Price regime for onions under the Foreign Trade Policy by substituting the previously notified MEP for the relevant tariff entry, raising the export floor price with immediate effect, and preserving a separate higher MEP for Bangalore Rose and Krishnapuram onion varieties.

Appeal procedure: rules governing filing, registration, service, hearings, adjournments, ex parte proceedings and judgments before the tribunal.
Regulations establish the procedural framework for appeals and applications to the Competition Appellate Tribunal: definitions of operative terms; English as the language of proceedings; Registrar duties to receive, verify, register and maintain records, issue notices and certify copies; filing, verification, service and pleading requirements including translations; limits on successive pleadings; inspection and certified copy procedures; rules on sittings, custody of seal, adjournments, ex parte hearings, signing of judgments and correction of clerical errors; and Chairperson's power to interpret or modify procedures.

Anti-dumping duty continuation on R-134a imposing definitive duties on imports from specified producers and exporters under customs rules.
Definitive anti dumping duty is imposed on 1,1,1,2 tetrafluoroethane (R 134a) following findings that exports from specified countries were below normal value and caused material injury; duty applies to listed combinations of origin, export, producer and exporter at the rates and units specified in the notification, payable in Indian currency, and leviable for five years with exchange rate for conversion as per the Customs Act.

Tariff value fixation updated for specified edible oils, brass scrap and seeds establishing new customs valuation benchmarks.
Substitutes the tariff-value Table in the principal customs non-tariff notification, fixing tariff values in US dollars per metric tonne for specified import items-crude and refined palm oil and palmolein, crude soybean oil, brass scrap (all grades), and poppy seeds-thereby establishing customs valuation benchmarks for those tariff headings and indicating which values remain unchanged.

Customs duty exemption for locally produced goods imported via designated land customs stations for sale in border haats.
Exempts specified locally produced goods imported from Bangladesh through designated land customs stations for sale in specified border haats from customs duty, Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess and integrated tax, provided the importer satisfies the Assistant/Deputy Commissioner of Customs that the goods were locally produced in Bangladesh and brought by land to the relevant land customs station for sale in the corresponding border haat; excludes tobacco products and alcohol and is subject to a per-person, per-day value ceiling.

Company name applications require Form 1A with fee, two resubmissions allowed, online approval if practitioner certified.
Promoters or companies must apply in Form 1A with a fee of rupees one thousand to the Registrar where the registered office is situated; the Registrar will examine whether the proposed or changed name is undesirable and may reject, request further information, or call for resubmission ordinarily within three days. Applicants have only two opportunities for resubmission against the initial fee, after which the Registrar shall reject if proposals remain unfit though fresh applications may be filed. Certified applications by specified practitioners will be processed electronically and approved online. Allowed names are available for adoption for sixty days and will lapse if not adopted within that period.

Central Government approval for managerial remuneration not required where listed-company subsidiaries meet specified governance, ownership, interest and qualification conditions.
Amendments to Schedule XIII exempt subsidiaries of listed companies from Central Government approval for managerial remuneration where the holding company's Remuneration Committee and Board consent, a special resolution authorizes payment, the remuneration is deemed paid by the holding company, and all members of the subsidiary are bodies corporate; remuneration fixed by the Board of Industrial and Financial Reconstruction is also exempt. A further exemption applies where the managerial person has no direct or indirect capital interest or relatedness within two years and holds a graduate qualification with specialized expertise. "Statutory Structure" is defined as any entity entitled to hold shares under statute.

Customs exemption period amended to cover the remaining part of the next financial year under the revised notification.
This amendment substitutes in Notification No.21/2002 Customs, Table entry S. No. 491A, column (3), the temporal phrase so that the exemption applies to the remaining part of the financial year 2011-12 instead of the previously stated period, leaving all other terms of the exemption intact.

Constitution of Special Economic Zone Authority amended to substitute two named members in the Authority's membership roster.
Amendment to the constitution of the Madras Special Economic Zone Authority under the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 substituting the entries at serial numbers 5 and 6 to name Sh. R. K. Shankar, M.D., Mercury Manufacturing Co. Ltd., and Sh. K. Shivachandra Reddy, Chief Executive, Vijay Garments Ltd., as members of the Authority.

Jurisdictional allocation of income-tax commissioners assigns districts and taxpayer categories to specified commissioners under amended notification.
Substitution of Schedule I entries reallocates commissionerates in Uttar Pradesh: Ghaziabad (Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr), New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (Gautam Buddha Nagar), and Meerut (Meerut, Baghpat). Each commissioner's jurisdiction covers (a) non company residents deriving non business/non profession income, (b) non company taxpayers with principal place of business in the area deriving business/profession income, and (c) companies registered under the Companies Act with registered office in the area. The amendment is effected under section 120 of the Income tax Act and takes effect from 1st July, 2011.

Anti-dumping duty on STPP from China set with specified per kg rates, five year applicability, paid in domestic currency.
Definitive anti-dumping duty is imposed on Sodium Tripoly Phosphate (STPP) originating in or exported from the People's Republic of China based on findings of dumping, dumping margins above de minimis, and material injury to the domestic industry. The notification prescribes producer- and exporter-specific per-kilogram duty rates in USD as listed in the Table, sets the tariff sub-heading for identification, makes the duty effective for five years from the provisional imposition date, requires payment in Indian currency, and specifies that the exchange rate for conversion is determined by separate Government notifications with the bill of entry date as the relevant date.

Anti-dumping duty withdrawal on hydrofluoric acid from China PR after review found no likely recurrence of injury.
The Central Government rescinds the notification imposing anti-dumping duty on hydrofluoric acid imports from China PR after a statutory review under the Customs Tariff Act and rule 23 concluded that lifting the duties is unlikely to cause recurrence of injury to the domestic industry; the rescission is subject to a saving for actions done or omitted before its effective date.

Customs exemption for goods gifted under bilateral government agreements now covers imports supplied free of cost.
The entry at S.No.8 of Notification No.148/1994-Customs is substituted to provide that goods, gifted or supplied free of cost under a bilateral agreement between the Government of India and a foreign government are covered by the exemption, effected by the Central Government exercising its statutory powers under the Customs Act.

Customs notification amendment expands coal description to include all types and limestone by substituting wording in the third proviso.
The notification amends the third proviso of Notification No. 64/1994-Customs (N. T.) by substituting the words "all types of coal and limestone" for the earlier words "coking coal, thermal coal and limestone", thereby broadening the commodity description within the proviso under the Customs Act authority.

Customs port designation: Dhamra authorised for unloading coal and limestone and loading iron ore concentrates.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs amends Notification No. 62/1994-Customs (N. T.) by substituting the TABLE entries against serial number 9 for the State of Orissa so that the port Dhamra is specified for unloading of all types of coal and limestone and for loading of iron ore and concentrates of all types.