EXPORT INSPECTION COUNCIL OF INDIA
EXPORT INSPECTION COUNCIL OF INDIA The Export Inspection Council of India (EIC) was set up as a Statutory Body on 1st January, 1964 under Section 3 of the Export (Quality Control and Inspection) Act, 1963 to ensure sound development of export trade of India through quality control and inspection and for matters connected therewith. The Council is an advisory body to the Central Government, with its office located at New Delhi and is headed by a chairman. The Council is assisted in its functions by the Export Inspection Agencies, which are field organizations located at Chennai, New Delhi, Kochi, Kolkata and Mumbai and have state of art and accredited laboratories with the required logistic support for quality certification activities. Its logo has Lion Capital of Government of India in the centre surrounded by four concentric circles wherein in English and Devanagari are written the name of the organisation.