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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/IDN/19
6 June 2003
(03-2962)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   INDONESIA
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:  Directorate General of Livestock Services, Ministry of Agriculture
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where
applicable): Skin/hide in the forms of dry/wet salted, wet pickled, wet blue, crust and
finished leather, indicated as potential car rier of agent causing major animal diseases
originate from epidemic, endemic or of major animal diseases specified by OIE
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Any
country having status as epidemic, endemic, or free countries of major animal disease with
the following criteria:
1. Epidemic country is country where outbreak(s) of major animal disease(s) of List A-
OIE, which include Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), Rinderpest, Lumpy Skin
Disease, Sheep Pox, Goat Pox and/or Peste de Petits Ruminants, is (are) ongoing.
2. Infected or endemic country is a country that has implemented control measures of
major animal disease of List A-OIE leading to no (negative) occurrence of outbreaks
of such diseases within at least 30 days of the last outbreak.
Free country is a country that has been declared as free country of such disease by the
OIE's report and has been officially approved by the Government of Indonesia.
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Health requirement for
importation of skin/hide/leather into Indonesia used as Industrial Raw Material (original inIndonesia language, translated into English)
6. Description of content:  Health Requirements for Importation of skin/hide/leather used for
industrial raw materials are applied in accordance with Indonesia policy regarding maximum
security in order to maintain the free status of Indonesia, for exotic animal disease.  The
health requirement for importation of such commodities are based on the exporting country
disease status, which include :
1. With regard to the major disease-epidemic countries , importation of most types of
skin/hide/leather , regardless the stage of production process, from such countries to
Indonesia is not permitted , after the occurrence of the outbreak(s) of such disease(s) in
a particular country is declared by the OIE.  In the case of finished leather , importation
of this commodity may be permitted after the Controlling, Inspection and Approval
(CIA)  is carried out in the country of or igin (willing to export) the products to
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2. In relation to infected or endemic countries , import can only be undertaken for wet
blue, crust and finished leather .  Meanwhile, wet pickled  may be permitted after the
CIA is carried out in the country willing to export the product to Indonesia.
For the major disease-free countries , import of all types of skin/hide/leather to Indonesia is
permitted.
7. Objective and rationale:  [    ] food safety, [ X ] animal health, [   ] plant
protection,[   ] protect humans from animal/plant  pest or disease,  [   ] protect territory
from other damage from pests
8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [ X ] Office International des Epizooties,
[   ] International Plant Prot ection Convention, [   ] None
If an international standard , guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:  International Animal Health Code,
Chapter 2.1.1.27
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:
1. Act No. 6 of 1968 concerning basic prov isions on Animal Husbandry and Animal
Health.
2. Act No. 16 of 1992 concerning An imal, Fish and Plant Quarantine.
3. Circular Letter of The Minister of  Agriculture Number :  TN.510/94/A/IV/2001
Concerning Refusal and Preventive Acti on on the Unintended of Foot and Mouth
Disease to Indonesia.
10. Proposed date of adoption:  Tentatively be Announced (TBA)
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  TBA
12. Final date for comments:  Sixty (60) days after the date of notification
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
National Agricultural Quarantine Agency
Phone: 62 21 781 6481Fax: 62 21 781 6481/83
Email: caqsps@indo.net.id
http://www.deptan.g o.id/aqa/html.in
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority,  [ X ]  National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
National Agricultural Quarantine Agency
Phone: 62 21 781 6481
Fax: 62 21 781 6481/83