Correct Answer - Option 3 : essential
EIC provides essential certification for various Food items namely fish & fishery products, dairy products, honey, egg products, meat, and meat products, poultry meat products, animal casing, Gelatine, Ossein and crushed bones, and feeds additives and pre-mixture.
EIC is an advisory body to the Central govt, which is empowered under the act to:
- Notify commodities that will be subject to quality control and/ or inspection prior to export.
- Establish standards of quality for such notified commodities.
- Specify the type of quality control and/or inspection to be applied to such commodities.
- The Export Inspection Council (EIC) was set up by the Government of India under Section 3 of the Export (Quality Control and Inspection) Act, 1963.
- EIC is the only organization in India having global acceptance.
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Essential certification means a form of mandatory conformity by the certification body of compliance of objects of technical regulation with the requirements of the technical regulations of the EAEU (Eurasian Economic Union).
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Voluntary certification of products is carried out in the sphere unregulated by law when the products are not subjected to the mandatory European directives.
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Optional certification means a certificate of delinquency that is not a qualifying certificate.
