G/SPS/N/IDN/101
18 February 2015 
(15-0968)  Page: 1/2
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: Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture 
No. 139/Permentan/PD.410/12/2014 concerning Importation of Carcasses, Meat and/or Its Processed Products Into the Territory of the Republic of Indonesia  Language(s): 
Indonesian  Number of pages: 32 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2015/SPS/IDN/15_0806_00_x.pdf  
6. Description of content: The regulation is based on Law No. 18 of 2009 concerning 
Livestock and Animal Health, and seeks to optimize the importation services on carcasses, meat and/or its products into the te rritory of the Republic of Indonesia. It is 
deemed necessary to rearrange the importation of animal products by stipulating the 
regulation on importation of carcasses, meat and/or its products into the territory of the Republic of Indonesia. 
The regulation is intended to be the legal basis to conduct importation, with the aim to: 
protect public health, animal health and environmental health; ensure fulfilment of the requirements linked to safety and health-related concerns, as well as legal obligations; ensure imported carcasses, meat and/or its processed products are free from zoonoses 
and animal infectious diseases, chemical and physical hazards; provide certainty in 
importation of carcasses, meat and/or its processed products. 
The scope of this regulation includes: 
a. Import requirements; 
b. Import Procedures; c. Control; 
d. Veterinary import requirements for poultry meat, meat and its processed products; 
e. Types of meat from cattle, carcass and/or meat other than cattle, and processed 
meat products that can be imported into the territory of the Republic of Indonesia; 
f. Other provisions. 
7. Objective and rationale: [X] food safety, [X] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[X] protect humans from animal/plant pe st or disease, [X] protect territory 
from other damage from pests.   G/SPS/N/IDN/101 
 
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  8. Is there a relevant international st andard? If so, identify the standard:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) CAC/GL 24-1997: Halal 
[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:   
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:     
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 23 December 2014 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 24 December 2014 
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) : 24 December 2014 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable 
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) 782 1367/781 6480 
Fax: +(62 21) 782 1367/780 4337/781 6481/781 6483 
E-mail: sps.indonesia@pertanian.go.id Website: http://karantina.deptan.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.deptan.go.id