TMI BlogDisposal of Unmanned Aircraft System(UAS)/Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs)/remotely piloted Aircrafts (RPAS)/DronesX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Airports or imported at various ports, FPOs, etc., in contravention of the statutory requirements, have been absolutely confiscated as per legal process. Accordingly, the Customs field formations have sought the Board's guidelines for the disposal of such confiscated Drones. 2. The matter of disposal of the confiscated Drones has been examined in consultation with the regulatory agencies such as the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the Wireless Planning and Coordination (WPC) Wing of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). During such consultation, the following points emanated, namely- (i) DGCA's Drone guidelines on 'Requirements for Operation of Civil Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS)', which are available at http://dgca.nic.in/cars/D3X-Xl.pdf prescribe the regulatory requirements, restrictions and procedure relating to licensing and operation of Drones. (ii) The Drones owned/operated by National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), Aviation Research Centre (ARC) and Central Intelligence Agencies are exempted from obtaining UIN. (iii) The Drones are re ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... nformation which may be available on the package; due acknowledgement of receipt of the Drones at the destination Focal Customs Commissionerates should be given and a corresponding receipt entry shall be made in the Warehouse/Disposal Register. The Pro-forma for maintaining a record of the transfer and acknowledgement are given at Annexure-B . Copies shall be kept by the Warehouse/Disposal Sections of the transferring Customs Zones and the Focal Customs Commissionerates. d) At the Focal Customs Commissionerates, the general principle of identification, segregation and distribution of the stock of the seized/confiscated Drones shall be as follows: (i) In regard to the stock of the Drones that is presently available, the following action will be taken: a) The requirements of DRI and Customs field formations shall be met first from the available stock of Drones. For this purpose, any Customs field formation requiring the Drones for their operational purpose, shall make a request to the DGRI, which shall make a recommendation for approval to the Board. After such approval, the DRI may include the requirement of the field formation(s) to its own requirement f ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... r (Investigation - Customs) at mgt.valavan@nic.in, CBIC. The Nodal officers shall, preferably, be at the level of Director/Deputy Secretary. g) The Additional/Joint Commissioner of Customs in-charge of Warehouse and Disposal of the Focal Customs Commissionerate will intimate the date and time of inspection of drones well in advance to the agencies concerned, and such date shall be mutually convenient for all the agencies; h) The transfer of the Drones, within the CBIC as well as to the MoD and the MHA, is subject to the following conditions: (i) The Drones shall be supplied on gratis basis (free-of-cost), on 'as-is where-is' condition; (ii) It will be the responsibility of the recipient to comply with all the regulatory requirements as mentioned at Para 2 above and the DGCA conditions/restrictions regarding possession and utilization of the Drones. The recipient shall produce all the necessary documents to this effect to the Additional/Joint Commissioner of Customs concerned at the Focal Customs Commissionerate at the time of taking over of the Drones; (iii) No Drone would be resold after the end of their life or when they become ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ge Quantity (in number) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Signature: Date: Name: Designation: Superintendent of Customs, Disposal/Warehouse Section, ........Commissionerate Acknowledgement Received total.... Drones, as listed above, after checking and tallying with the entries mentioned in the above table. Signature: Date: Name: Designation: Superintendent of Customs, Disposal/Warehouse Section, ........... Commissionerate Annexure - C List of Nodal Officers S. No Organization Nodal Officer Contact No./Mobile No. 1 . SPG Sh. Sunil Kumar, SSO/Tech 011-23015964/9968534765 2. CRPF ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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