Presentation from Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety, Trade Consultation Meeting, 28 February 2014

1. Small Volume Exemption
(SVE) Online
First Application
Trade Consultation Forum
43rd meeting
28 February 2014

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Background
 At present, manual application form (FEHB
233) should be used for the first SVE
application.
 After the first application, each grantee will
be allocated with one account. The login
user ID and password will be sent by post to
the grantee for future online applications via
Food Import Control System (FICS) website
(https://www.fics.gov.hk/sves/).

3. 3
New Arrangement for First
Online Application
 After upgrading the FICS on 24.3.2014, first
SVE application could be submitted via FICS
with the submission of digital certificate issued
by the Government-recognized Certification
Authorities (e.g. e-Cert issued by Hongkong
Post).
 After the first online application, each grantee
will be allocated with one account. The login
user ID and password will be sent by post to
the grantee for future online applications.

4. 4
New Arrangement for First
Online Application
 New arrangement would not affect the
existing grantees in submitting online
applications.

5. SVE fees for online
applications
 The new SVE fees for online applications
would be implemented on 24 March 2014.
 The proposed SVE fees for online new
application is $265.
 The proposed SVE fees for online renew
application is $250.
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6. SVE fees for online
applications
 As for applications submitted via other
means (e.g. by post, fax or email), the fees
will remain the same, i.e. $345 for new
application and $335 for renewal
application.
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