In accordance with the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority Act, which was approved by the Parliament in December 1985, the Government of India formed the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA). The Act (2 of 1986) took effect on February 13th, 1986 as a result of a notification published in the Extraordinary: Part-II of the Indian Gazette (Section 3(ii): 13.2.1986).