LIST/COMP/01/2018-19 April 03, 2018
Dear Sir / Madam,
Subject : Filings by listed companies to be mandatorily in Machine Readable Format
This is in continuation to Exchange Circular LIST/COMP/22/2017-18 dated January 16, 2018 with regards to submission of PDF documents/filings in “Machine Readable” / “Searchable” format.
The Exchange has put in place validations (in beta mode) at the filing stage itself in the Listing Centre to verify whether the PDF document / filing submitted is in “Machine Readable” / “Searchable” format only. If the PDF document submitted is not in Machine Readable or Searchable format, the document would not be accepted. Further, in order to assist companies in filing PDF documents / filings in machine readable format, the Exchange has posted a Help Manual in the Listing centre, that details how companies can convert non-machine readable/searchable pdf files to readable / searchable files as required by SEBI.
All the Listed companies are advised to please take note that the above validations will be in effect from April 5, 2018 and accordingly, only machine readable / searchable PDF submissions would be accepted from that date onwards. It is further clarified that this would have no effect on the submissions that are required to be filed in XBRL by the companies.
Netra Sahani Abhijit Pai
Dy. Gen. Manager Dy. Gen. Manager
Listing Compliance Listing Compliance
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