FSSAI License For Airport-Premises - Process, Documents, Fee

The Indian civil aviation industry is one of the fastest-growing industries globally and is expected to overtake the UK in the coming years, due to this, the Food and hospitality businesses are also growing at airport promises. Therefore FSSAI has made it necessary for all Food businesses such as catering services, food courts, on board food services on its premises to have an FSSAI central license to commerce their businesses.

Because of such an aviation ecosystem, the food service industry on airport premises is also growing each year with high demand among commuters, making it necessary to maintain food safety and standard at airports.

What are the airport premises?
FSSAI license for airport premises
Criteria for FSSAI license for airport premises
Procedure for FSSAI license for Airport premises
Documents required for FSSAI license
FSSAI license fee for airport premises
FSSAI license validity and renewal
Non-compliance with FSSAI
FAQs

FSSAI Food License [Sample]

What are the Airport premises?

Airport premises are described as shops, restaurants, hotels and food outlets at the airport and onboard food services in airlines; India has more than 130 airports where various businesses operate, from low tier hotels to catering services.

FSSAI license for airport premises

The aviation food industry is growing with the growth in the overall civil aviation industry, and to maintain the high standards of good quality food and the health of consumers, FSSAI came up with guidelines for all the food businesses to have a necessary FSSAI license for airport premises from FSSAI central licensing authority.

Criteria for FSSAI license for Airports-premises

All food businesses, irrespective of their nature of businesses and turnovers, are allowed to carry out their operations on airport premises but to do that, they all need to have an FSSAI Central license from the central licensing authority of FSSAI.

Hotels near airports
Food chains such as McDonald's near under airport premises
FBOs inside the airport premises
Food catering services for the airlines
Coffee shops
Packaged food sellers at airports

Process of FSSAI license for Airport-premises

The application for the license can be filled online through the FSSAI portal in simple steps.

Step-1: online application

Open the FosCos portal and click on apply for registration tab
Now click on the blue tab (apply for license/registration for Airport)
Select the Airport for which you want to apply
Fill out all the mandatory forms.
Upload all the required documents
Submit the license fee

After that, an application reference number will be generated and provided to you to track the application status. You can track your application status using our FSSAI application status tool without any cost.

Step-2: Inspection by FSSAI

Within the next 7 days, FSSAI authorities will respond to your application, and if the application is rejected, then an inspection on your premise will be held by a FOOD SAFETY OFFICER.

Process of FSSAI license for Airport-premises

Step-3: Approval from FSSAI

After a satisfactory inspection of the food safety officer's premises and document verification, the authorities will give license clearance.

Step-4: Issuance of license

The license will be issued within 30 working days, which is mandatory to display during business hours by FBOs and on the food product for manufacturers.

Documents Required for FSSAI license for Airports-premises

The following documents are needed to submit for a new application permit from FSSAI Central Licensing Authority.

Government-issued identity proof of FBO owner
List of directors
Detail of machinery and equipment used for food manufacturing
Form-B
Form -IX
Partnership deed or memorandum or article of association
Must provide Coop act-1861/multistate Coop Act-2002 certificate
NOC from the Ministry of tourism for hotel premises
Origin of raw material
Declaration in the case of registration in Delhi and Himachal Pradesh
Recall plan if applicable
A detailed outlet of the food manufacturing unit in meter/square meter
Ownership proof or NOC from the owner of the premise if rented
Chemical analysis report of water
Import-export code issued by an authorized body

FSSAI License fee for Airport-premises

All the Food operators at airport premises need to have an FSSAI license from the Central licensing authority.

The CLA fee for the FSSAI central license for airport premises is Rs. 7,500 + 18% GST per year.

Note : As per the new norm of FSSAI. The applicants are required to pay only Initial fee of ₹1000 + 18% GST on it for their FSSAI licenses. However once the application is processed and passed by the licensing authorities then the rest of the differential amount i,e respective license fee along with differential GST has to be paid by the applicant within 30 working days. If the applicant failed to pay the amount then approval will be auto rejected.

FSSAI License validity and renewal

FSSAI license issued by the Central licensing authority can be valid for up to a maximum of 5 years and a minimum of 1 year.
Can fill renewal of license in case of the central license 180 days before the due date.
If renewal is not filed till 30 days prior to the date of expiry then a late fee of Rs. 100 per day shall be charged as per FSS regulation 2011.
In the case of FBOs filling for FSSAI renewal from the 1st to 90th-day after the day of expiry, then they shall be charged 3 times the original annual fee respectively and 5 times if they appear after the 90th day from the day of expiry.
No renewal shall be allowed after 180 days from the original day of expiry. To check the exact validity of your FSSAI license you can use our license number status checker tool to avoid any late fee and cancellation.