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Export Awards_____________________::

EXPORT AWARD SCHEME FOR THE YEAR 2003-2004

The Scheme of Export Award is instituted to recognize efforts of individual member exporters of the Council in increasing exports, entering into new markets and brand promotion of the products falling within the purview of the Council for Leather Exports.

The Export Award Scheme has been revised, as per the decisions of the 104^th & 105^th Meeting of the Committee Of Administration, CLE, on 24^th March and 22^nd May 2004.

The details of the Revised Scheme are given below:

All Members of CLE will be considered for Export Awards on the basis of their certified FOB Export Performance returns as filed in their Membership Application Forms, with CLE at the time of membership renewal.
Exporters who enroll as Members with the Council on or before September 30, 2004 will be considered for Export Award for the year 2003-2004
Members do not have to apply for the CLE Export Awards
After selection, the consent of all awardees will be obtained.
The award for Best Women Entrepreneur will be deleted from the scheme.
There will not be collection of any contribution from Members towards publicity for the awardees in the press, and in the form of printing of Awardees Profile Booklets. Minimum publicity will be given using CLE funds.

1. PRODUCT CATEGORIES:

The Awards will be presented for the following product groups:

a. Overall Export Performance:

Only member-companies with total FOB export turnover for leather and leather products, of Rs.100 Crores and above are eligible for consideration in this category.
The FOB export value of all Leather and Leather Products will be considered in this category.
The same company is not eligible to claim this award for more than 2 years continuously. However, the eligibility is restored after a gap of two years.
Indicative of the achievement of the awardees in this category for overall leather exports, the prizes for the first and second position will not be a Plaque and Certificate as for the other categories of awards. The first prize in this category will be a Gold Trophy and the second prize will be a Silver Trophy.

b. Finished Leather
c. Leather Footwear
d. Non-Leather Footwear
e. Footwear Components
f. Leather Garments
g. Leather Goods (such as Travel Goods, Ladies & Gents Hand bags, Belts, Wallets)
h. Industrial Leather Manufactures (such as industrial leather gloves, Aprons etc)
i. Fashion Gloves / Golf Sports Gloves.

In all the above Product Groups listed from b. to i three categories of awards will be presented i.e. award for

Best Export Performance:

Above US$.5 Million One Plaque and one Certificate of Merit
Above US$.1 Million and below US$ 5 Million One Plaque and one Certificate of Merit.
Below US$.1 Million One Plaque and one Certificate of Merit

j. Saddlery and Harness:

    Best Export Performance:
    Above US$.1 Million One Plaque and one Certificate of Merit
    Below US$.1 Million One Plaque and one Certificate of Merit

Products such as Riding Boots, Textile Articles, Riding Apparels and Nylon/Rubber/Hardware are not covered under the export of LEATHER SADDLERY AND HARNESS GOODS. Riding Boots alone will be considered under the Footwear category.

II OTHER CATEGORIES:

Apart from the awards for export performance in product categories as listed above, awards will also be granted for the following categories:

k. Brand Promotion

To recognize the efforts taken to introduce ones own brand in the international market, in each of the following four product groups there will be one Award in each product category (Plaque alone) viz. Leather Footwear, Non-Leather Footwear, Leather Garments and Leather Goods (inclusive of Fashion Gloves / Sports Gloves and Saddlery & Harness)

If the brand is more than one year old, the export sales growth in respect of the brand concerned, in the year under consideration, should be at least 10% compared to the preceding year.

If the brand is new or less than one year old the FOB value of export in the year under consideration of the branded products alone will be taken into account.

For the award under Brand Promotion category Exporters are required to give an undertaking that the BRAND NAME actually belongs to the exporter. Only self-owned brands will be considered for award. The award under Brand Promotion category will be given by considering the aspect of successful acceptance of the brand in the international market.

All other selection criteria will be same as specified above for the product categories.

l. ISO Certificate for Environmental Management System ISO 14001

This award will be presented to the following product manufacturing units that secure ISO 14001 Certification.

a) Finished Leather
b) Leather Footwear
c) Non-Leather Footwear
d) Footwear Components
e) Leather Garments
f) Leather Goods
g) Industrial Leather Manufactures
h) Fashion Gloves / Golf Sports Gloves
i) Saddlery & Harness

A Certificate of Merit will be presented to all firms securing this Certification in the year under consideration.

This award will be presented only once to a particular company.

m. OHSAS Certificate for Occupational Health and Safety Management System OHSAS 18001

This award will be presented to the following product manufacturing units that secure OHSAS 18001 Certification.

A Certificate of Merit will be presented to all firms securing this Certification in the year under consideration.

This award will be presented only once to a particular company.

OTHER SELECTION CRITERIA OF THE EXPORT AWARD SCHEME

Member firms are eligible to get more than one award in a year
The awards will be decided on the basis of certified annual export returns submitted by the member-exporters at the time of renewal of their membership.

In the revised Export Award Scheme 60% weightage will be given to the FOB Export Value in the year under consideration; 30% weightage will be given to Export Growth as compared to the previous year; and 10 percent weightage will be given for New Market Penetration.

In the previous Award Scheme 80% weightage was given to the FOB export value in the year under consideration, 10% weightage to Export Growth over the preceding 2 years period and 10% weightage for New Market Penetration.

Members of the Export Award Sub-Committee (Selection Committee) are not eligible for any award.

III. MODE OF SELECTION:

Selection of the best exporters will be made on the basis of the certified annual export returns submitted by the members at the time of renewal of their membership. Hence members are requested to submit their annual export returns duly certified by the Chartered Accountant / Banker at the time renewal of their membership
Final Selection of the best exporters will be made by a Committee nominated by the Committee of Administration, CLE.
The Committee will submit its recommendations to the Chairman of the Council for approval

IV. DISPUTES:

In case any dispute arises, the decision of the Chairman of the Council shall be final.
After announcement of the award, if any member brings to the notice of the Council any material fact relating to his export performance that had been over looked, the Committee may meet again for scrutiny of his export performance and make suitable recommendations to the Chairman.

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