Disposal of seized/confiscated cigarettes of foreign origin vis-a-vis provisions of the Cigarettes and other Tobacco products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008

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..... New Delhi, dated the 05th July, 2017 To, All Principal Chief Commissioners/ Chief Commissioners of Customs/Customs (Preventive), All Principal Chief Commissioners/ Chief Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise. All Principal Directors General / Directors General of CBEC. All Principal Commissioners/Commissioners of Customs / Customs (Prev). All Principal Commissioners/Commissioners of Custo .....

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..... de and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution Act, 2003 (COTPA 2003)) and the Rules made thereunder. 2. Attention is also invited to this office letter of even no. dated 05.04.2017 vide which concerted action against illicitly imported cigarettes (specified under Section 123 of the Customs Act, 1962 vide Notification No. 103/2016- Customs (N.T.) dated 25.07.2016) was called for and vide wh .....

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..... ckages covering 85% of the principal display area. Further, as per the said Rules, during the rotation period of twenty-four months, two images of specified health warnings as notified in the Schedule, shall be displayed on all tobacco product packages and each of the images shall appear consecutively on the package with an interregnum period of twelve months. 4. Therefore, on completion of a per .....

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..... heir disposal, shall also be available for sale in the market, it is mandatory that the changes in the health warnings specified by the aforesaid COTP Amendment Rules, 2017, effective from 01.04.2017, shall also be applicable to them. 6. In view of the above, it is requested that in addition to the existing statutory requirements, compliance of the amendments in health warning specifications pres .....

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