SCOMET Items Exports to Iran – UN Resolution 2231 to Apply

[DGFT Public Notice No. 19 dated 29^th June 2016]

Effect of this Public Notice: Procedure has been laid down to process applications for authorization for export to Iran of specified items in SCOMET list.

Sub: Insertion of sub-para VIII in paragraph 2.74 (Inter-Ministerial Working Group) in Handbook of Procedures 2015-2020.

In exercise of powers conferred under Para 1.03 of the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020, as amended from time to time, the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby incorporates sub-para VIII in paragraph 2.74 of the Handbook of Procedures 2015-2020 which reads as under:-

"VIII. Authorization for export of items in Categories 0, 3 (other than 3D), 4, 5 and 7 of the SCOMET list to Iran would be subject to the relevant provisions contained in Annex B to the UN Security Council resolution 2231 (2015). The licensing authority, i.e. DGFT or Department of Atomic Energy, as the case may be, on completion of the IMWG process or the applicable internal process, shall seek the concurrence of Disarmament and International Security Affairs (D&ISA) Division in the Ministry of External Affairs, as required.”