APEDA Registration
What is APEDA?
APEDA or Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority & organization, established in 1985 through an act for the development and promotion of export for the scheduled products. The schedules products are the one that are mentioned under the APEDA act and the exporters of these products are required to be registered under APEDA. This organization is liable to provide financial assistance, information and guidelines for the development of scheduled products.
Functions of APEDA Authorities
Authorities are assigned with functions such as:
- Promotion of export-oriented production and development of the Scheduled products
- Setting the standards and specifications for the scheduled products
- Registration of exporters of the scheduled products on payment of required fees
- Improving packaging and marketing of the Scheduled products
- Carrying out an inspection of products for the purpose of ensuring the quality of such products
- Training in various aspects of the industries connected with the scheduled products
- Development of industries relating to the scheduled products and undertaking surveys, feasibility studies etc
- Collection of statistics from the owners of factories or establishments and publication of such statistics
APEDA is mandated with the responsibility of export promotion and development of scheduled products such as Fruits, Vegetable, Meat, Poultry Products. Dairy Products, Confectionery, Biscuits, Bakery Products, Honey, Jaggery and Sugar Products, Cocoa products, chocolates, floriculture Products. Pickles, Papads and Chutneys etc
Registration Process
For registering under APEDA, the applicant should submit the application form within 1 month from the date of undertaking the business. If the exporter of scheduled products fails to register within that time limit due to sufficient cause, such date can be extended only by the Authority. Once the application duly filed and paid by the applicant, the authority will issue Registration -Cum- Membership- Certificate (RCMC). This registration is one-time registration and all the registered members are governed by the rules & regulations under APEDA Act
Documents required for registration
- Duly signed an application form
- Copy of Import-Export code issued by D.G.F.T.
- Bank Certificate duly signed by the authorities
- Bank A/c. statement of the bank account of the firm (for latest 2 months)
- Canceled cheque
The advantage of APEDA Registration
- With respect to the export of scheduled products, APEDA registration is mandatory.
- Exporters can avail the various financial assistance schemes of APEDA.
- It helps the exporters in brand publicity through advertisement, packaging development, database up-gradation and surveys etc
- Provides guidelines to exporters about the various products and countries for export
- Registered members can participate in training programmes organized by APEDA for various scheduled products and thereby improve their business.
List of all the products listed under APEDA
The term agricultural processed food includes nearly all the food items that we could have. For more clarity, here are the specific/scheduled products that come under APEDA.
- Meat and meat products
- Guar gum
- Herbal and medicinal plants
- Dairy products
- Honey, Jaggery and Sugar products
- Fruits, vegetables and their products
- Cocoa and its products, chocolates of all kinds
- Floriculture and Floriculture products
- Poultry and poultry products
- Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages
- Cereal and cereal products
- Confectionary, biscuits and bakery products
- Groundnuts, peanuts and walnuts
- Pickles, Papads and Chutneys
Along with these products, one of the primary responsibilities of the APEDA is to monitor the import of sugar.
