G/SPS/N/IDN/113  
 
19 July 2016  
(16-3867)  Page: 1/3  
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
1. Notifying Member: INDONESIA 
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible: Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health Services, 
Ministry of Agriculture 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item  number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; IC S numbers should be provided in 
addition, where applicable): Carcasses, meat and/or its processed products 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected , to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:   
5. Title of the notified document: Draft Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture 
concerning Amendments to the Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture No.  58/Permentan/PK.210/11/2015 on Importation of Carcasses, Meat, and/or Its 
Processed Products Into the Territo ry of the Republic of Indonesia  Language(s): 
Indonesian  Number of pages: 34 
6. Description of content: This regulation is an amendment of several provisions in the 
Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture No. 58/Permentan/PK.2 10/11/2015 concerning 
Importation of Carcasses, Meat, and/or Its Processed Products Into the Territory of the 
Republic of Indonesia (notified as G/SPS/N/IDN/105). 
This regulation covers Import Requirements, Import Procedures, Control, and Penalties. 
This regulation specifies some provisions of the Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture 
No. 58/2015 that were amended as follows: 
a. Business operators, national state owned en terprises, local state owned enterprises, 
social institutions, or representatives of foreign countries/international institutions should carry out importation in accordance with the recommendation of the 
Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Services acting on behalf of the 
Minister; 
b. The provisions on the amount of local beef absorption is no longer regulated; 
c. Any type of carcass, meat, and/or its processed products derived from bovine or 
from meat other than bovine that is not listed in Annex I and Annex II can be given recommendations as long as it meets the requirements of safe, healthy, wholesome 
and Halal products; 
d. The timeframe for submission of recommendations by business operators, national 
state owned enterprises, local state owned enterprises, social institution, or representatives of foreign countries/international institutions is no longer regulated. 
Applications of recommendations can be submitted at any time on working days; 
e. Recommendations proposed by business operators, national state owned 
enterprises, local state owned enterprises no  longer require evidence that local beef 
absorption has been verified by provincial agencies and/or district/city of local beef 
origin. Recommendations have to be accompanied by the distribution plan of carcasses and bovine meat according to the format-2; G/SPS/N/IDN/113 
 
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  f. The issuance of recommendations by the Director General for carcasses and/or 
bovine meat will take into consideration the realization of previous importation and the distribution plan; 
g. After receiving the recommendation (submitte d online) from the Director General, 
the Director of the Center for Plant Variety Protection and Agriculture Licensing will then submit this recommendation to the Minister in charge of government affairs in 
the trade sector. This recommendation will be submitted through the portal of the 
Indonesian National Single Window (INSW); 
h. The period for the issuance of recommendation is no longer regulated; 
i. HS code and description of the products, including the number of kilograms (kg) per 
HS code, must be included in the recommendation; 
j. The recommendation number contained in the recommendation should be listed in 
the certificate of health that accompanies the product at each shipment; 
k. The validity period of recommendation is six months, starting from the date of 
issuance; 
l. Business operators, national state owned en terprises, local state owned enterprises, 
social institution, or representatives of foreign countries/international institutions 
which carry out importation should report their imports of carcasses and bovine meat listed in Annex I every month. This should be reported online by the 15
th of 
the following month to the Director General according to format-3. Scans of the 
import declarations for the types of products that have been affected by the provisions related to electronic recording of imports should be attached; 
m. Business operators, national state owned enterprises, and local state owned 
enterprises which carry out importation should report online the distribution of 
carcasses and bovine meat to the Director General according to format-4 every Thursday; 
n. Business operators, national state owned en terprises, local state owned enterprises, 
social institution, or representatives of foreign countries/international institutions which violate the provisions related to import permits, the shelf life of carcass and 
meat, and recommendation requirements, shall be penalized in the form of a written 
warning, temporary suspension of the activities of importation and/or distribution, or not given a recommendation for six months; 
o. Provision for the inclusion of the recommendation number in the certificate of health 
will enter into force after three months from the date of promulgation of this 
regulation; 
p. This regulation comes into force on the date of promulgation. 
7. Objective and rationale: [X] food safety, [X] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[X] protect humans from animal/plant pe st or disease, [ ] protect territory 
from other damage from pests.   
8. Is there a relevant international st andard? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial  n u m b e r  o f  C o d e x  
standard or related text)  
[X] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)  Terrestrial Animal Health Code: 
Chapter 2.1.5; Chapter 2.1.14; Chapter 2.4.9; Chapter 2.4.6; Chapter 2.7.11; 
Peste des petits ruminants; Chapter 2.7.13: Scrapie; Chapter 2.7.14; Chapter 2.8.3; Chapter 2.8.1; Chapter 2.3.4; Chapter 2.3.7; Chapter 2.3.8; 
Chapter 2.3.14  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)    
[ ] None Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
[X] Yes   [ ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:   G/SPS/N/IDN/113 
 
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  9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:     
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined. 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 17 September 2016 
Agency or authority designated to hand le comments: [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body:  
Indonesian Agricultural Quarantine Agency (IAQA) 
Ministry of Agriculture 
Jl. Harsono RM No.3 E Building 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th Floor 
Ragunan, Jakarta Selatan 12550 Indonesia 
Tel: +(62 21) 7821367/781 6480 
Fax: +(62 21) 7821367/780 4337/781 6481/781 6483 E-mail: sps.indonesia@pertanian.go.id 
Website: http://karantina.pertanian.go.id  
13. Text(s) available from: [X] National Notifi cation Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:   
Indonesian Agricultural Quarantine Agency (IAQA)  
Ministry of Agriculture Jl. Harsono RM No.3 E Building 1
st, 3rd, 5th and 7th Floor 
Ragunan, Jakarta Selatan 12550 
Indonesia Tel: +(62 21) 7821367/781 6480 
Fax: +(62 21) 7821367/780 4337/781 6481/781 6483 
E-mail: sps.indonesia@pertanian.go.id Website: http://karantina.pertanian.go.id