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REGULATION OF THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE
No. 64/Permentan/OT.140/12/2006

CONCERNING
IMPORTING AND SUPERVISION OVER CARCASS, MEAT AND INNARDS

WITH ALMIGHTY GOD'S BLESS
MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE,

Considering :

• a. that in order to supply domestic demand for meats and innards, it can be done by importing the goods to Indonesian territory;
• b. That in efforts to maintain the Indonesian territory free of main contagious animal diseases and pests and quarantined animal diseases, and also to protect consumers from zoonosis, and also to guarantee the worthiness of food and the public's confidence, therefore it is considered necessary to control the importing and surveillance over the distribution of imported carcasses, meats, and innards.

In view of :

• 1. Act Number 6 Year 1967 concerning the Main Rules for Animal and Animal Health Care (Government Gazette Year 1967 Number 10, addition to Government Gazette Number 2824);
• 2. Act Number 16 Year 1992 concerning Animal, Fish, and Plant Quarantine (Government Gazette Year 1992 Number 56, addition to Government Gazette Number 3482);
• 3. Act Number 7 Year 1994 concerning the Approval of Agreement Establishing World Trade Organization ( Government Gazette Year 1994 Number 57, addition to Government Gazette Number 3564);
• 4. Act Number 7 Year 1996 concerning Food (Government Gazette Year 1996 Number 99, addition to Government Gazette Number 3656);
• 5. Act Number 8 Year 1999 concerning Consumer Protection (Government Gazette Year 1999 Number 42, addition to Government Gazette Number 3821);
• 6. Act Number 32 Year 2004 concerning Provincial Government (Government Gazette Year 2004 Number 125, addition to Government Gazette Number 4473);
• 7. Government Regulation Number 15 Year 1977 concerning Refusal, Prevention, Elimination, and Medical Treatment of Animal Diseases (Government Gazette Year 1977 Number 20. addition to Government Gazette Number 3101);
• 8. Government Regulation Number 22 Year 1983 concerning Veterinary Public Health (Government Gazette Year 1983 Number 28, addition to Government Gazette Number 3253);
• 9. Government Regulation Number 69 Year 1999 concerning Label and Advertisement for Food (Government Gazette Year 1999 Number 131, addition to Government Gazette Number 3867);
• 10. Government Regulation Number 25 Year 2000 concerning Government Authority and Provincial Authority as Autonomous Region (Government Gazette Year 2000 Number 54, addition to Government Gazette Number 3952);
• 11. Government Regulation Number 82 Year 2000 concerning Animal Quarantine (Government Gazette Year 2000 Number 161, addition to Government Gazette Number 4002);
• 12. Government Regulation Number 49 Year 2002 concerning Tariff of State's Income non-Tax, which is applicable in Ministry of Agriculture (Government Gazette Year 2002 Number 92, addition to Government Gazette Number 4224) In connection with Government Regulation Number 7 Year 2004 (Government Gazette Year 2004 Number 14);
• 13. Government Regulation Number 28 Year 2004 concerning the Safety, Quality, and Nutrition of Food (Government Gazette Year 2004 Number 107, addition to Government Gazette Number 4424);
• 14. Presidential Decree Number 187/M Year 2004 concerning the establishment of United Indonesia Cabinet;
• 15. Presidential Regulation Number 9 Year 2005 concerning Organization and Work-order of State Ministries of Indonesia in connection with Presidential Regulation Number 62 Year 2005;
• 16. Presidential Regulation Number 10 Year 2005 concerning Organizational Unit and Tasks of Echelon I in Indonesian State Ministries;
• 17. Ministerial Decree of Agriculture Number 471/Kpts/HK.310/8/2002 concerning the entrance and exit locations of quarantined animals' disease-carrier media;
• 18. Ministerial Decree of Agriculture Number 206/Kpts/TN.530/3/2003 concerning the classification of quarantined-animal disease types, Classification of carrier-media;
• 19. Ministerial Regulation of Agriculture Number 299/Kpts/OT.140/7/2005 concerning Organization and Work-Order in Ministry of Agriculture;
• 20. Ministerial Regulation of Agriculture Number 341/Kpts/OT.140/9/2005 concerning the Organizational adequacy and Work-Order in Ministry of Agriculture;
• 21. Ministerial Regulation of Agriculture Number 381/Kpts/OT.140/10/2005 concerning the Guidelines of Veterinary Control Certification, Business Unit, Animal-source food;
• 22. Ministerial Regulation of Agriculture Number 51/Kpts/OT.140/10/2006 concerning the Guidelines of Work-Relation Order of Functional, Observation, and Quarantined Animal Disease Care;

To pay attention to :

• 1. Terrestrial Animal Health Code - Office International des Epizooties Year 2005;
• 2. WTO Notification Number G/SPS/IDN/30 dated 28 August 2006;

HAS DECIDED:

To determine :

MINISTERIAL REGULATION OF AGRICULTURE CONCERNING IMPORTING AND CONTROLLING OVER DISTRIBUTION OF FOREIGN CARCASSES, MEATS, AND INNARDS.

CHAPTER I
GENERAL REGULATION

Article 1

In this regulation, the meaning of:

• 1. Ruminant Carcasses are part of ruminant livestock, produced from correct slaughtering according to Islamic Teaching, skinned off, and extracting the blood and taking out the innards, beheaded off, legs from tarsus to downwards, reproductive organs and udder, tail, and also excessive grease, except the ones pickled with other ways besides using freezer determined by Indonesian Standard (SNI), hence edible to be consumed by human.
• 2. Poultry carcasses are part of poultry livestock, which have been slaughtered in the correct way according to Islamic Teaching, feathered off, taken out the innards and abdominal grease, beheaded off, cut the neck off, and also feet or claws.
• 3. Pork carcasses are part of pig livestock, which have been slaughtered after furred off and taken out the abdominal contents and thorax contents.
• 4. Meats are part of carcass produced from slaughtered livestock in accordance with Islamic way (except pork), correct, safe, and edible to be consumed by human, which consists of cuts of boned meat or the other boneless meats, except prickled with other ways besides using freezer, including the variety of meats and processed meats.
• 5. Variety meats, fancy meats, co-products are parts of slaughtered livestock with Islamic Teaching and correct ways besides carcass, skin, and blood, which are edible for man, except the prickled ones by other ways aside from using freezer.
• 6. Processed meats are meats processed by certain methods with or without additional materials in accordance with Islamic and correct ways and also safe and edible to be consumed by human.
• 7. Meats for animal's food are meats inedible for man, and only edible for animals.
• 8. Innards (edible offal) are parts of animal's inner organs, taken out from Ruminants which are slaughtered according to Islamic and correct ways, and also edible and safe to be consumed by man, except preserved by other ways besides using freezer.
• 9. Importing is an activity of importing carcasses, meats, and/or innards from foreign countries into Indonesian territory.
• 10. Transportation is a means of transportation used to transport and has direct relation to means of carrier.
• 11. Import Place is seaport, river-lake port, crossing port, airport, post office, border post, and other places determined by Minister.
• 12. Animal Quarantining is an activity as an effort to prevent from pest and animal diseases inflowing and spreading from foreign countries and from one area to another in Indonesia, or exiting from Indonesian territory.
• 13. Quarantining is an action done to prevent from inflowing and exiting of pests or animal diseases, from and to abroad and also the spreading from one area to another within Indonesian Territory.
• 14. Animal Quarantine Installation which henceforth is called Quarantine Installation is a building along with the equipments and land, and the supporting means needed as place to do quarantining.
• 15. Pests and Quarantined Animal Diseases, which is henceforth abbreviated as PQAD, are every pest, pest disease, and animal disease which has impacts on national socio-economic and international commerce, and also causes Veterinary health disorders, which can be classified according to the risks.
• 16. PQAD Classification I, is of diseases of quarantined animals, which has characteristic and potency to spread serious and fast-contagious diseases, the medical treatment is still unknown, and not existed yet in Indonesian Territory.
• 17. PQAD Classification II, is of diseases of quarantined animals, which the spreading potency is closely related to the traffic of carrier media, the medical treatment is known, and stated existed in Indonesian territory.
• 18. The disease-carrier media of Quarantined Animals, which is henceforth called Carrier-Media, is of animals, animal materials, materials made of animals and/or other things that can carry the pest-diseases of quarantined animals.
• 19. Observation over Pests and Diseases of Quarantined Animals, which is henceforth called Observation, is an activity to detect or to find out the existence of pest-diseases of quarantined animals in a country outside Indonesia or an area within Indonesian territory.
• 20. OIE (Office International des Epizooties)/WOAH (World Organization for Animal Health), which is henceforth called OIE/WOAH, is a World's Animal Health Organization having authority to provide information concerning, events, status, and situations of animal diseases in a country.
• 21. Main Contagious Animal Diseases, which is henceforth abbreviated as MCAD, are diseases having fast-contagious power and having impacts on socio-economic and/or being able to cause serious public health disorders, and also are critical diseases in animal trading and animal products internationally caused by viruses, parasites, and bacteria, in reference to the list of contagious animal diseases of OIE/WOAH.
• 22. Zoonosis is a disease or infection infected naturally from animal to human or vice versa.
• 23. Veterinary Health, which is henceforth abbreviated as VH, is everything concerning animals and animal products, affected directly or indirectly the human's health.
• 24. Animal Quarantine Requirements are subjects that organize the requirements and procedures of animal quarantine care towards the traffic of inward carrier media from and to abroad and/or between areas in Indonesian territory.
• 25. Protocol of Animal Health and Veterinary Health is a document consisted of the requirements for animal health and Veterinary health, which has been approved by Indonesian Government (Director General of Farms/Animal Husbandry and the Government of Importing Countries that imports carcasses, meats, and innards, to Indonesian territory.
• 26. Exporting Country, which is henceforth called the Exporter, is a country exporting carcasses, meats, and innards, to an area in Indonesia.
• 27. Enter-Zone of Origin, which is henceforth called Zone of Origin, is a part of a country with obvious limit where animal population in the area has obvious animal health status of certain diseases, which therefore needs actions of surveillance, control, and bio-security for the needs of international commerce.
• 28. Business Unit of Importing Carcasses, Meats, and Innards, is a business run regularly and continuously in certain places for commercial purposes, which consists of slaughterhouse, poultry slaughterhouse, pig slaughterhouse, and exporter/importer, distributor, carcass, meat, and innards processor.
• 29. Veterinary Control Number (Establishment Number (EN)), (Indonesian: “Nomor Kontrol Veteriner”), is a certificate as a written and legal evidence over the fulfillment of hygiene-sanitary requirement as a basic worthiness over the guarantee of food safety from animal in business unit of animal-made food.
• 30. Carcasses, Meats, and Innards import Business, is a business, which imports carcasses, meats, and innards to Indonesian territory.
• 31. Distribution is an activity or a series of activities in order to distribute carcasses, meats, and innards, both for trading or not.
• 32. Package is a material used to pack and/or to wrap carcasses, meats, and innards, whether attached directly or indirectly.
• 33. Label, is every information concerning carcasses, meats, and innards, which is represented in pictures, writings, and the combination of them, or other representations enclosed to carcasses, meats, and innards, put in, attached to, or as packaging parts.
• 34. Seal is a sign of pictures or writings, which is formally issued by authorized government to verify the product authenticity.
• 35. National Standard (Indonesian: Standard Nasional Indonesia), is the standard determined by National Standardization Agency of Indonesia (Indonesian: Badan Standarisasi Nasional (BSN).
• 36. Transit means the passing-over temporarily of transportation during the journey carrying carcasses, meats, and innards to the determined port.
• 37. Port of Entry, the so-called PE (Indonesian for “Surat Persetujuan Pemasukan”), is written information given by Minister of Agriculture to individual or legal institution, to get the permission to import carcasses, meats, and/or innards from abroad into Indonesian territory.

Article 2

(1) This Regulation is meant to be as follows:

• a. As reference for businesspersons, individually or corporately, which import and distribute carcasses, meats, and innards from other countries;
• b. As reference for officers responsible in surveillance over import of carcasses, meats, and innards from abroad, and also their distribution in Indonesia;
• c. As reference for animal quarantine officers in quarantining in specified import places;
• d. As perception for everyone concerning the importance to maintain the status free of PQAD and/or MCAD in Indonesia, and also to provide health protection and public confidence to consume carcasses, meats, and innards.

(2) This Regulation is aimed at avoiding the possibility of PQAD and/or MCAD entering, and also ensuring the public confidence towards the import of carcasses, meats, and innards into Indonesian territory.

Article 3

The scope of import organizing for carcasses, meats, and innards, covers:

• 1. Types of carcasses, meats, and innards;
• 2. Requirements for carcasses, meats, and innards imports, are as follows:
• a. Requirements for importer;
• b. Requirements for exporter and zone of origin;
• c. Requirements for business unit in exporter's country;
• d. Requirements for packaging, labeling, and transporting.
• 3. Procedures for carcasses, meats, and innards imports;
• 4. Animal Quarantining;
• 5. Surveillance over the distribution of carcasses, meats, and innards; and
• 6. Sanctions.

Article 4

(1) Carcasses, meats, and innards imports can be done by individual or corporate after the acceptance of SPP from Minister.

(2) The deliverance of SPP as mentioned above means that the Minister authorizes to Director General of Farms/Animal Husbandry.

CHAPTER II
SORTS OF CARCASSES, MEATS, AND INNARDS

Article 5

(1) Sorts of carcasses, meats, fancy meats, and innards from large ruminant animals imported from foreign countries into Indonesian territory, which can be approved its import license, as mentioned in Appendix I of this Regulation.

(2) Sorts of small ruminant meats, sorts of pork, sorts of poultry meats, which can be approved the import license into Indonesian territory, as mentioned in Appendix II of this Regulation;

(3) Sorts of imported processed meats, which can be approved the import license into Indonesian territory as mentioned in Appendix III of this Regulation;

(4) Sorts of carcasses, meats, fancy meats, and innards, small ruminant meats, sorts of pork, sorts of poultry meats, and processed meats as mentioned in clauses (1), (2), and (3), can be approved the import license, after risk assessment by a Team.

CHAPTER III
REQUIREMENTS FOR IMPORTING CARCASSES, MEATS, AND INNARDS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES

Part One
Requirements for Importer

Article 6

(1) Individual or corporate must fulfill the requirements to be able to import carcasses, meats, and innards from foreign countries, as follow:

• a. Business Trading License Certificate (SIUP);
• b. Taxpayer Code Numbers (NPWP);
• c. Trade Registry Certificate (STDP);
• d. General Import Passing Number (APIU);
• e. ID Card;
• f. Company's Establishment Deed;
• g. Recommendation from Provincial Service dealing with the functions of Animal Husbandry/Animal Health and Veterinary Health;
• h. Membership Certificate of Indonesian Meats Importers Association
• i. Possessing EN; and
• j. Possessing the specified quarantine installation.

(2) Individual or corporate aside from the obligation to fulfill the requirements as mentioned in clause (1), also must avoid the possibility of the enter and the spread of PQAD and/or MCAD, and also zoonosis which can be infected, and shares the responsibilities towards health and the public confidence.

Part Two
Requirements for Exporter and Zone of Origin

Article 7

(1) A country can be determined as the exporter of carcasses, meats, and innards to Indonesian territory, by Director General of Animal Husbandry, after technical assessment by Team.

(2) In approving the technical assessment as mentioned in clause (1), is in accordance with animal health assessment, Veterinary health assessment, and animal quarantine assessment.

(3) The assessment as mentioned in clause (2) is conducted by using assessment criteria, as follows:

• a. Authority, infrastructure, and structure of animal health organization, Veterinary health, and animal quarantine;
• b. Surveillance implementation of disease/observation over PQAD and/or MCAD;
• c. The capability of diagnostic laboratory and Veterinary health laboratory;
• d. Information system and procedure to report animal diseases;
• e. Farms and animal Identification system
• f. Disease status of quarantined animals and food safety administration;
• g. Implementation of animal disease control and elimination;
• h. Vaccination status;
• i. PQAD and/or MCAD status in bordering areas;
• j. Animal protection standard;
• k. Physical and non-physical obstacles with bordering areas;
• l. Surveillance implementation over animals/animal products trade traffic;
• m. Surveillance system of animal products safety;
• n. Livestock and markets demography;
• o. Slaughtering process procedure;
• p. Monitoring and surveillance residues;
• q. Emergency preparation for PQAD and/or MCAD and/or;
• r. Animal quarantine in exporter's country.

Article 8

(1) Original country or Exporter of ruminant carcasses, meats, and innards, must fulfill PQAD and/or MCAD status, which consist of as follows:

• a. The country is free of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD);
• b. The country is free of Rinderpest;
• c. The country is free of Rift Valley Fever;
• d. The country is free of Contagious Bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia (CBPP), and
• e. The country is free of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy/BSE (negligible BSE risk).

(2) For boneless beef with certain requirements can be granted the import license in case of coming from the zones which the risk towards BSE is negligible (negligible BSE risk), or controlled (Controlled BSE risk).

(3) Boneless beef aside from fulfilling the certain requirements as mentioned in clause (2), also must fulfill the requirements as follows:

• a. Deriving from cattle with ages not more than thirty (30) months;
• b. Only allowed to boneless meat (deboned), except meat mechanically separated from bones (Mechanically Separated Meat/MSM);
• c. Not stunned (stunning process) by injecting pressured air or gas into head cavity;
• d. Acting to prevent meats from contaminated by specified risk material (SRM).

(4) The imports of large ruminants aside from the obligation to fulfill the requirements as mentioned in clause (1), also must come from the registered farms and under authorized animal health official's surveillance in exporter's country, and also free of Anthrax, Tuberculosis, Para-tuberculosis, Brucellosis, Bluetongue, and Blackleg.

(5) Concerning certain requirements as mentioned in clause (2) will be further determined by Director General of Animal Husbandry/Farms.

Article 9

(1) The imports of small ruminants (of deer, goats, and sheep), besides must fulfill the requirements as mentioned in Article 7 clause (1), also must come from a country free of Scrapie, Sheep Pox, Goat Pox, and Peste des Petits Ruminants.

(2) The imports of small ruminants, as mentioned in clause (1), must come from the registered farms and under authorized animal health official's surveillance in the exporting country, and also free of Anthrax, Tuberculosis, Para-tuberculosis, Brucellosis, Bluetongue, and Blackleg.

Article 10

(1) Country of origin or exporting country of pork, besides must be free of PMK, Rinderpest, Rift Valley Fever, also must be free of African Swine Fever, Swine Vesicular Disease, Nipah Virus, Japanese Encephalitis, Aujesky's Disease, Athropic Rhinitis, Teschen Disease, and Swine Pox.

(2) The imports of pork, as mentioned in clause (1), must come from the registered farms under authorized animal health official's surveillance in the exporting country, also at least for the last twelve (12) months period prior to export implementation, have been stated free of Hog Cholera, Transmissible Gastro Enteritis (TGE), Trichinosis, and Cytiscercosis.

Article 11

(1) Country of origin or exporting country of poultry meats must be free of Notifiable Avian Influenza (NAI).

(2) The imports of poultry meats, as mentioned in clause (1), must come from the registered farms under authorized animal health official's surveillance in the exporting country, also at least within the last ninety (90) days period, and within the range of 50 kilometers prior to export implementation from the exporting country, have been stated not in epidemic situation of Newcastle Disease (ND).

(3) For imports of duck meats, besides must fulfill the requirements as mentioned in clauses (1) and (2), also must come from the registered farms under authorized animal health official's surveillance in the exporting country, also at least within the last ninety (90) days prior to the export implementation, have been stated free of Duck Viral Hepatitis and Duck Viral Enteritis.

Article 12

The free of the diseases requirements as mentioned in Article 8, Article 9, Article 10, and Article 11, are according to the evaluation on status reports and contagious animal disease situation from the exporting country, and acknowledged by OIE/WOAH towards free of diseases in the country.

Part Three
Business Unit Requirements in Exporting Country

Article 13

(1) Business unit in determined exporting country, which is going to import carcasses, meats, and innards to Indonesian territory, must accomplish the following requirements:

• a. Has been accredited by authorized official in the exporting country, and at least has the same standard as Indonesian Standard, or the minimum technical requirements determined by Indonesian Minister of Agriculture;
• b. Doesn't accept animals and/or process animal products come from the countries contaminated with animal diseases as mentioned in Article 8, Article 9, Article 10, and Article 11;
• c. Has adopted Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), which is based on Codex Alimentary Commission or guarantee system on other food safety acknowledged by the world;
• d. Has adopted “halal” practice (English: “allowed, permitted, rightful”), which consists of slaughtering, care, and the meat processing processes in accordance with the Regulation of Indonesian Islamic Council of Religious Scholars (Indonesian: Majelis Ulama Indonesia), approved by certificate “halal” based on the applicable regulation;
• e. Has adopted the practice of animal welfare;
• f. Has conducted ante-mortem and post-mortem assessments by the authorized official as a prevention from every possibility of disease infectivity and contamination during production process (slaughtering, processing, packaging, storing and transporting), hence the carcasses, meats, and innards has reached the criteria of safe, healthy, undamaged, and halal, for human consumption.
• g. Has adopted monitoring residue programs of animal medicines, hormones, pesticides, toxins, and other substances dangerous for human health, consistently and documented, also the assessment result shows rate under Minimum Limit of Microbial Contamination (MLMC), or Maximum Limit of Residue (MLR) determined by National Standardization Agency of Indonesia.

(2) The Conditions mentioned in clause (1) letter d are not applicable to business unit which conducts slaughtering, caring, and processing carcasses/pork.

Article 14

(1) Business unit which has accomplished the requirements mentioned in Article 13 will be carried out direct assessment in the exporting country by Team.

(2) Team's assessment result mentioned in clause (1) will be recommended to Director General of Farms/Animal Husbandry in determining business unit.

(3) The assessment result mentioned in clause (2) can be followed by bilateral cooperation in the form of the Protocol of Animal Health and Veterinary Health.

Article 15

(1) Risk-analyst Assessor Team, Exporting Country Assessor Team, and business unit Assessor Team, mentioned in Article 5, Article 7, and Article 14, will be further determined by Ministerial Decree of Agriculture.

(2) Team membership as mentioned in clause (1) among others are veterinary who have accomplished the qualification requirements in the field of animal health and Veterinary health appointed by Director General of Farms and quarantine animal Veterinary appointed by Head of Agriculture Quarantine Organization.

Article 16

If there is any status change of animal health, Veterinary health, and animal quarantine in exporting country as required in Article 7, Article 8, Article 9, Article 10, Article 11, and Article 13, will be conduct reassessment in the exporting country and exporting country's business unit.

Article 17

Imported Carcasses, Meats, and innards, must include Veterinary Health Certificate/Sanitary Certificate, from authorized official in the exporting country, which states as follows:

• a. Free of Diseases situation in the exporting country from main contagious diseases as mentioned in Article 7, Article 8, Article 9, and Article 10;
• b. Carcasses, meats, and innards of ruminants and pigs from livestock born and grown in the exporting country or zones of origin for four (4) months and poultry carcasses from livestock born and grown in the exporting country for at least one (1) month;
• c. Carcasses, meats, and innards from slaughtered livestock in business unit as mentioned in Article 12 and have passes the assessment of ante-mortem and post-mortem, and also processed according to hygiene-sanitation requirements hence safe and edible or worthy to be consumed by human;
• d. Carcasses, meats, and innards not consisted of preservative or other substances which can harm human health; and
• e. The storing period of carcasses, meats, and innards takes in effect since the time of livestock slaughtering until the arrival in Indonesian territory not more than six (6) months at temperature of 18 C..

Part Four
Packaging, Label, and Transportation Requirements

Article 18

(1) The exported carcasses, meats, and innards must be packaged so contamination or pollution don't occur during journey, and the packages must:

• a. Be original from the exporting country, having labels and seals;
• b. Be made of special substances that are safe for food (food grade) and be not toxic.

(2) Labels on the packages must attach:

• a. The destination country is Indonesia;
• b. Establishment Number;
• c. The date of slaughtering and/or the date of production;
• d. Types and quantity and also the purpose; and
• e. Halal sign except for pork.

(3) Seals as mentioned in clause (1) letter a is attached by the authorized veterinarians in the exporting country and must be still undamaged in the assessment place in Indonesia.

Article 19

(1) Carcasses, meats, and innards which are going to be imported to Indonesian territory, previously must be loaded in a transport media, and must be done a quarantining in the exporting country.

(2) Carcasses, meats, and innards transportation as mentioned in clause (1) must be carried out directly from the exporting country to the importing places in Indonesia.

(3) The imports of carcasses, meats, and innards from foreign countries by the way of transit and/or re-export through other countries can be permitted with special consideration after previously conducted assessment by Team as mentioned in Article 15, and also not against the regulations as mentioned in Article 8, Article 9, Article 10, Article 11, and Article 13.

(4) After arriving in the import places in Indonesian territory, carcasses, meats, and innards must take place animal quarantine.

Article 20

(1) The imported carcasses, meats, and innards transported by using containers, sealed by authorized veterinarians in the exporting country, and only can be opened by animal quarantine official in the import places.

(2) Halal-certificated carcasses, meats, and innards must be separated from the carcasses, meats, and innards containers, which don't possess Halal-certificate.

(3) During the journey, temperature in the container or the other means of transportation must be stable, for fresh meats the range is from 0 C. up to 4 C., and for frozen meats and carcasses from 18 C. to minus 22 C..

Article21

The imported meats for animal's food usage must:

• a. Be given dye substance;
• b. Be attached sign which says “inedible for human on its package;
• c. Be transported in containers separated from meats for human consumption.

CHAPTER IV
THE PROCEDURE OF IMPORTING CARCASSES, MEATS, AND INNARDS

Article 22

(1) Everyone or corporate which is going to import carcasses, meats, and innards to Indonesian territory must submit application letter to Director General of Farms through Head of License and Infestation Center by encloses the copies to Head of Agriculture Quarantine Organization.

(2) The application letter as mentioned in clause (1) must include the requirements as mentioned in Article 5 clause (2) and attach:

• a. Company's name;
• b. Company's address;
• c. Establishment Number of the applicant's business unit;
• d. Quarantine installation for the assessment place in port/airport/destination/import;
• e. Exporting country
• f. Establishment number in the exporting country;
• g. Import destination area;
• h. Import port;
• i. Types, quantity and purpose
• j. Company profile and technical data required.

(3) Head of License and Infestation Center after receives the application letter as mentioned in clause (1) for period not more than three (3) work-days must already pass the assessment of the requirement document as mentioned in clause (2) and intermediately submit postponement, rejection or acceptance replies.

Article 23

(1) The postponed application as mentioned in Article 22 clause (3), if there are still some unaccomplished requirements, will be informed on paper to the applicant.

(2) The applicant within five (5) work-days since accepting the written notification as mentioned in clause (1) must already accomplish all the requirements.

(3) In case of within five (5) work-days as mentioned in clause (2) the applicant hasn't completed the undone requirements, the application will be withdrawn.

Article 24

(1) The rejected applicant as mentioned in Article 22 clause (3), if the requirements as mentioned in Article 22 clause (2) are incorrect.

(2) The application rejection as mentioned in clause (1) is informed on paper including the reasons.

Article 25

(1) The accepted application as mentioned in Article 22 clause (3) is informed by Head of License and Infestation Center to Director General of Farms for asking SPP.

(2) Director General of Farms after receives the application as mentioned in clause (1) intermediately asks technical consideration to Team as mentioned in Article 15 towards requirement accomplishment of animal health and veterinary health in the exporting country and animal quarantine requirements.

(3) Technical consideration as mentioned in clause (2), is conducted according to the requirements as mentioned in Article 8, Article 9, Article 10, Article 11, and Article 13, by being adjusted to knowledge and technology developments, and also diseases situation development based on the information from OIE at the assessment.

(4) Technical consideration as mentioned in clause (3) within a period not more than fourteen (14) work-days must already be submitted to Director General of Farms and Head of Agriculture Quarantine Agency.

Article 26

(1) Team, in giving technical consideration as mentioned in Article 25, must consider technical recommendation from Head of Service, dealing with the functions of farms in Province.

(2) Technical recommendation from Head of Service as mentioned in clause (1) is not applicable to the imports of carcasses, meats, and innards from foreign countries for social, diplomatic, searches, or self-need purposes which is not exceeding ten (10) kilograms with the condition continues to notice the exporting country requirements as mentioned in Article 8, Article 9, Article 10, Article 11, and Article 13, which includes health certificate/sanitary from the exporting country.

(3) Technical recommendation as mentioned in clause (1), among other to be able to accomplish the requirements as mentioned in Article 5 clause (2).

Article 27

(1) Director General of Farms according to technical consideration from Team as mentioned in Article 15 and consideration suggestion from Head of Agriculture Quarantine Agency not more than five (5) work-days must already submit the rejection or acceptance replies.

(2) Application rejection as mentioned in clause (1) by Director General of Farms is given on paper including the reasons submitted to the applicant through Head of License and Infestation Center.

(3) The accepted application as mentioned in clause (1) will be issued SPP in form of Director General's Decree with copies submitted to Agriculture Quarantine Organization, Director General of Agricultural Processing and Marketing, Director General of Customs & Duty, Head of Service dealing with the functions of farms in province, and Head of Public Hall/Hall/animal quarantine station in import location.

(4) Director General of Farms in issuing SPP as mentioned in clause (3) must notice the consideration suggestion from Head of Agricultural Quarantine Organization.

(5) SPP as mentioned in clause (3) is submitted to the applicant through Head of License and Infestation Center.

Article 28

(1) Individual or cooperate which has obtained SPP from Director General of Farms as mentioned in Article 27 clause (4) can import carcasses, meats, and/or innards to Indonesian territory.

(2) SPP as mentioned in clause (1) is effective for a period of one hundred and eighty (180) calendar days.

(3) In case of animal diseases endemic occurs as mentioned in Article 8, Article 9, Article 10, and Article 11, in the exporting country, SPP as mentioned in clause (1) is stated ineffective.

(4) Individual or corporate which imports carcasses, meats, and innards, must give import realization report to Director General of Farms with copies to Head of Agricultural Quarantine Organization and Head of License and Infestation Center not more than seven (7) calendar days after the effectiveness of SPP.

CHAPTER V
ANIMAL QUARANTINING

Article 29

(1) Every import plan of carcasses, meats, and innards from foreign countries must be reported by the owner or his representative to quarantine official in import location determined in Port of Entry by filling in the assessment application form of animal quarantine and encloses SPP.

(2) Import Report as mentioned in clause (1) must be submitted not more than one (1) work-day before the arrival of transportation media in import location.

(3) At the arrival moment of the transport media in import location, the owner or the representative must submit carcasses, meats, and innards including the required document to quarantine official to be conducted quarantining.

(4) Document as mentioned in clause (3) consists of:

• a. Port of Entry;
• b. Health Certificate/Sanitary Certificate;
• c. Halal certificate for the required ones;
• d. Animal quarantine installation establishment letter;
• e. Transit permit and Health Certificate from Transit Country if available; and
• f. Information letter of during journey temperature records, bill of Loading/Airway bill, and cargo manifest from ship's captain/pilot.

Article 30

(1) Animal quarantining as mentioned in Article 29 clause (3) can be of assessment, care, detainment, rejection, elimination, and/or release.

(2) The treatment as mentioned in clause (1) is conducted to get rid of animal quarantine diseases of Classification II.

Article 31

(1) The assessment as mentioned in Article 30 comprises requirement document assessment and health assessment/sanitary by the quarantine veterinarians on the transport media prior to unloading or before passing the import location.

(2) The requirement document assessment as mentioned in clause (1) consists of completeness and validity of document, and appropriateness/correctness between document and package/label/ quantity and the type.

(3) Health assessment/sanitary as mentioned in clause (1) can be in form of purity sampling or organoleptical completeness and/or laboratorial sampling according to technique and method of assessment.

(4) In case of purity sampling or organoleptical completeness and/or laboratorial sampling as mentioned in clause (3) cannot be done onboard or in import location, so it will be done an advanced assessment in certain animal quarantine installation.

Article 32

(1) The advanced assessment mentioned in Article 31 clause (4) comprises purity sampling, organoleptical completeness, and/or laboratorial sampling according to the technique and method of assessment.

(2) Carcasses, meats, and innards transporting from import location to Animal Quarantine Installation must be under Animal Quarantine Officer's observation.

(3) After arriving at Animal Quarantine Installation, will perform:

• a. Unsealing;
• b. Package completeness sampling;
• c. The appropriateness of type and quantity sampling;
• d. Random organoleptical sampling
• e. Laboratorial sampling, if needed.

Article 33

(1) In case of carcasses, meats, and innards imports are not included with requirement document as mentioned in Article 29 clause (4) so it will be done a detainment as mentioned in Article 30.

(2) The detainment as mentioned in clause (1) is conducted if:

• a. carcasses, meats, and innards are imported from a country of import abolishment list;
• b. at the onboard assessment is not found a potential PQAD classification I and PQAD contamination risk classification II;
• c. the owner or the representative guarantees to be able to enclose health certificate/sanitary within maximal of three (3) work-days and other documents required within maximal of seven (7) work-days.

(3) After the owner or the representative can accomplish all requirements mentioned in Article 29 clause (4), hence it can be done the advanced assessment as mentioned in Article 32.

Article 34

(1) The rejection as mentioned in Article 26, is carried out in case of;

• a. After the onboard assessment or in import location infected PQAD, from the country of import abolishment list, decayed, or damaged, or unworthy to consume;
• b. The all documents required as mentioned in Article 33 clause (2) letter c are not accomplished.

(2) After the rejection as mentioned in clause (1), hence the carcasses, meats, and innards intermediately are taken out from Indonesian territory within a time limit not more than three (3) work days which is delivered in official report of rejection.

(3) In case of the owner or the representative cannot provide the transportation within a time limit as mentioned in clause (2), it can be expanded for a limit of seven (7) work-days which continues to consider the import risk grade and diseases contamination of quarantined animals.

(4) In case of the rejection as mentioned in clause (1), the owner or the representative has not right to claim any indemnity and also must take the responsibilities of the rejection fee.

Article 35

(1) The elimination as mentioned in Article 30, is conducted if:

• a. After carcasses, meats, and innards are unloaded and carried out the assessment, contaminated by quarantine animal diseases classification I, decayed, damaged, unworthy to consume or from the country of import abolishment list;
• b. The rejected carcasses, meats, and innards as mentioned in Article 34 clause (1) are not intermediately taken out from Indonesian territory by the owner of the representative; or
• c. After the carcasses, meats, and innards are unloaded and treated as mentioned in Article 30 clause (2), cannot be sterilized from quarantine animal diseases Classification II.

(2) Steps must be done in the elimination as mentioned in clause (1) are:

• a. Presenting witness(es) from related institutions in import locations;
• b. Inviting the owner or the representative of the carcasses, meats, and innards which are going to be eliminated;
• c. Preparing Elimination Official Report;
• d. Preparing location and equipment for elimination with procedure and method of elimination specified;
• e. Elimination is done under the observation of Quarantined Animal Veterinarian and witnessed by the owner or the representative, Indonesian Police Officer, Customs and Duty official, attorney, and other related institutions' officials;
• f. Elimination Official Report at least in three (3) duplicates, first sheet for the owner, second for the responsible officials in the elimination, and the third for the Quarantined Animal Veterinarian.

(3) Within the elimination as mentioned in clause (1), the owner or the representative has not right to claim any indemnity and also must take the responsibility of elimination fee.

Article 36

(1) The releasing as mentioned in Article 30 clause (1) is done if:

• a. After the assessment mentioned in Article 31 and Article 32, uninfected by PQAD, free of biological, chemical, physical contaminations, undamaged, not decayed, worthy for consumption, and Halal to be consumed for the required ones; or
• b. After the detainment as mentioned in Article 33, all requirements obligated can be accomplished and uninfected by PQAD, free of biological, chemical, physical contaminations, not decayed, worthy for consumption, and Halal for the required ones.

(2) The releasing as mentioned in clause (1) is conducted after the owner or the representative accomplishes the obligation to pay the quarantine service according to the applicable regulations.

CHAPTER V
SURVEILLANCE OVER DISTRIBUTION

Article 37

(1) The surveillance over the distribution of carcasses, meats, and innards from foreign countries, which are freed from quarantining, is carried out by Veterinary Health Surveyor appointed by Head of Service which deals with the functions of Farms and provincial animal health and regency/city in accordance with his authority.

(2) The surveillance as mentioned in clause (1) is conducted regularly for at least one time within six (6) months or in occasions of veterinary health technical requirements violence.

(3) The surveillance as mentioned in clause (2) includes physical samplings of carcasses, meats, and innards, storage assessment, vendor place assessment, and transportation assessment.

(4) The assessments as mentioned in clause (3) are followed by laboratorial sampling as the fulfillment of safety, health, completeness, and Halal situation of the distributed carcasses, meats, and innards.

(5) The assessments in storage place, vendor place, and transportation as mentioned in clause (3) consist of hygiene-physical sampling, sanitary and the technical requirements of veterinary health.

(6) The assessment in storage place as mentioned in clause (3) consists of:

• a. Temperature for fresh meats must be in range of 0 – 4 C., and for frozen meats between minus 18 C. and minus 22 C.;
• b. Storing period for frozen meats in distribution is not more than eight (8) months with the internal temperature at least minus 18 C.;
• c. Storing period for frozen innards in distribution is not more than six (6) months with internal temperature at least minus 18 C.;
• d. The storing, vending, and the transporting of carcasses, meats, and innards from foreign countries which are halal certificated, must be separated from non Halal certificated.

Article 38

(1) Veterinary health surveyor appointed as mentioned in Article 37 clause (1) conducts the surveillance over carcasses, meats, and innards distribution, and reports the surveillance results regularly in every six (6) months to the Head of Service dealing with the functions of farms and provincial animal health and regency/city with copies to Director General of Farms.

(2) The Service dealing with the functions of farms and provincial animal health and regency/city, reports the surveillance results over carcasses, meats, and innards distribution from foreign countries to Director General of Farms.

Article 39

(1) Everyone or corporate conducting the activities of storing, transporting, distributing, and/or vending carcasses, meats, and innards from foreign countries, must maintain his business places in the conditions of hygiene-sanitary requirement and the public confidence.

(2) Everyone or corporate as mentioned in clause (1) must already report the storage place facility, and/or vending place and/or the transportation in use to Head of Service dealing with the functions of farms and animal health in local regency/city;

(3) Everyone or corporate as mentioned in clause (1) who is going to carry out distribution trans-areas/trans-provinces must already obtain recommendation from the Service dealing with the functions of farms and animal health in the acceptant areas.

Article 40

In order to increase the society's role and the consumer protection from carcasses, meats, and innards which have not accomplished the hygiene-sanitary requirement and the public confidence, hence surveillance as mentioned in Article 37 clause (1) can involve Indonesian Islamic Council of Religious Scholars participation, Indonesian Consumer Institution (Indonesian: Yayasan Lembaga Konsumen Indonesia (YLKI), other related Associations and public institutions by noticing the stipulation of this regulation.

Article 41

In case of in an area of regency/city there has not been performed a service dealing with the functions of farms and animal health, hence the surveillance realization of distribution of carcasses, meats, and innards as mentioned in Article 37 clause (1) and Article 38, is carried out by the service dealing with the functions of farms and animal health in province.

CHAPTER VI
SANCTIONS

Article 42

(1) In case of according to surveillance results conducted by veterinary health surveyor as mentioned in Article 37 and Article 34 a regulation violence has occurred, the Director General of Farms, Governor, Regent/Mayor have rights to perform administrative action.

(2) The administrative action as mentioned in clause (1) can be in forms of:

• a. Written notification;
• b. Import prohibition and/or temporary distribution and/or an order to withdraw carcasses, meats, and innards from distribution;
• c. Temporarily distribution abolishment;
• d. The elimination of carcasses, meats, and innards if proven not in accordance with administrative requirements and veterinary technical requirements determined;
• e. Recommendation of importer license abolishment;
• f. The Port of Entry abolishment;
• g. The Establishment Number abolishment.

(3) The administrative action performance, as mentioned in clause (2) is carried out according to risk grade resulted by requirement violence.

(4) The administrative action performance, as mentioned in clause (2) letters a, b, and c, is done by Director General of Farms.

(5) The administrative action performance, as mentioned in clause (2) letters d and e, is done by Governor or Regent/Mayor in accordance with his authority.

(6) The administrative action performance, as mentioned in clause (2) letter g, is done by Governor.

Article 43

Besides enforced by administrative action as mentioned in Article 42 clause (2), individual or corporate violating the stipulation of this regulation, is condemned sanctions according to Act number 16 year 1992 concerning Animals, Fish and Plant Quarantines; Act number 7 year 1996 concerning Food; and/or Act number 8 year 1999 concerning consumer protection.

CHAPTER VII
OTHER STIPULATION

Article 44

By not decreasing the stipulation effectiveness in the field of Medicine and Food Control, this stipulation is also effective to processed meats which have risks towards the contamination of contagious animal diseases (zoonosis), natural and other biological resources.

CHAPTER VIII
SUBSTITUTIVE STIPULATION

Article 45

Port of Entry for carcasses, meats, and innards which is already issued prior to the effectiveness of this regulation, is stated still in effective until the period expiration, and therefore is adjusted to this regulation.

CHAPTER IX
CLOSING STIPULATION

Article 46

By the effectiveness of this regulation, hence the Ministerial Decree of Agriculture number 745/Kpts/TN.240/12/1992 is invalidated and not effective anymore.

Article 47

This regulation starts to take in effect on the date of stipulation.

Stipulated in Jakarta
On the date of December 28, 2006
MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE,
signed
ANTON APRIYANTONO

COPIES of this Regulation are submitted to dear:

1. Minister of Economic Coordinator;
2. Minister of Public Welfare Coordinator;
3. Minister of Health;
4. Minister of Finance;
5. Minister of Forestry;
6. Minister of Sea and Fishery;
7. Minister of Commerce;
8. Minister of Foreign Affairs;
9. Minister of Domestic Affairs;
10. Minister of Transportation;
11. Minster of Tourism, Art, and Culture;
12. Director General of Customs and Duty, Ministry of Finance;
13. Head of Medicine and Food Control Organization;
14. Echelon I officials within Ministry of Agriculture;
15. Governors and Regents/Mayors in all over Indonesia.