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 Territory of the Republic of Indonesia

This regulation is an amendment of several provisions in the Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture No. 58/Permentan/PK.210/11/2015 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 enterprises, 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;
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 (submitted 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 enterprises, 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 15th 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 enterprises, 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.