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B ullion W orld | V olume 5 | I ssue 01 | J anuary 2025
Bullion World | Volume 5 | Issue 01 | January 2025
Appeal to the Jewellery

Trade Associations

Hallmarking Federation of India

Jewellery exports have come down by 15%. GJEPC has demanded budgetary support from the Govt to promote
Indian jewellery exports. Finance & Commerce ministries are worried about the fall in export volumes of jewellery
and the CAD rising to 3.8% of the GDP. Consumer Affairs secretary has spoken of other countries not accepting/
lack of mutual respect, on the quality hallmarks of Indian jewellery. GJC chairman says - Indian hallmarks on
jewellery are erased abroad, taking days, before being accepted in foreign countries.

All the above points to the same problem-lack of a quality platform for our export jewellery

The only solution is - Indian jewellery exported shall In the recent years, GJEPC and HFI have been
carry an international hallmarking certification (by requesting the Consumer Affairs ministry and the
India joining the International Vienna Convention on Blas to initiate the process of India joining the Vienna
Hallmarking) Convention, so as to upgrade benchmark the quality
standards of our export jewellery to intermational levels.
For the past 15 years, we have been realising that for But the response was not positive, without realizing
Indian jewellery to be accepted abroad without further that benchmarking a product to world class standards
retesting, the ornaments shall also have a global is always essential to highlight the quality parameters/
hallmark le the 5th mark-CCM (common control mark acceptance of a product in the global market. For
of the Vienna Convention on hallmarking). The 5th import of bullion, the govt of India has stipulated that
mark CCM can be affixed in India at select hallmarking bullion bars imported shall be from LBMA accredited
centres, if and when these HM centres are further gold refineries. The CE mark on products comsing
certified by the Vienna Convention, to be of international from the European Union gives them an international
standards acceptance for quality. For meat exports from India to
specified countries, the CAS scheme (India conformity
Such Vienna Convention approved hallmarking centres assessment) is mandatory, same shall be the case
shall come up near jewellery manufacturing hubs or of Indian jewellery exported to the quality conscious
the jewellery exporting airports. India joining the Vienna markets of the Middle East. Europe, America etc, where
Convention on hallmarking is a long process, spanning the 5 CCM of Vienna Convention. Affixed on India made
several years. BIS in India had initiated the process in jewellery, shall be highlighting its quality standards,
2012 and in the subsequent years attended various enabling it to be accepted without further retesting,
VC meetings as an observer. However when the VC even when many of these countries are not members of
guidelines stipulated that the joining country shall have Vienna Convention.
strict legal regulations to prevent the misuse of the
5th mark CCM, India had to wait for a while. Now that We look forward to the support of all the trade
the new BIS act 2016, hallmarking regulations 2018 associations of the Gem and Jewellery industry in
and the Consumer protection act 2019 are in place India, to take forward our long pending demand to the
with necessary legal frame work, the country is now Consumer Affairs ministry and BIS, for India joining
technically eligible to join the Vienna Convention in 2015, the Vienna Convention on hallmarking, so that Indian
BIS had identified a few select hallmarking centres in jewellery manufacturers and exporters shall get greater
India that are technically competent to join the Vienna acceptance the world over.
Convention

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