Report Highlights:
On June 17, 2013, the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) issued MOA Decree No. 4390/2013 on Imports of Livestock and Livestock Products from the United States. The regulation reopens the Indonesian market for U.S. Meat and Bone Meal (MBM), bone-in beef, bone-derived gelatin, and beef offal imports.
General Information:
On February 18, 2013 the World Organization for Animal Health’s (OIE) Scientific Commission for Animal Diseases issued a letter to all OIE members recommending that the United States be recognized as OIE member country with negligible risk for BSE in accordance with Article 11.5.3 of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code. On May 28, 2013, OIE Member Countries formally adopted the Commission resolution without opposition from any OIE member country.
On June 17, 2013 the Indonesian MOA acknowledged the new U.S. negligible BSE risk status by issuing MOA Decree No. 4390/2013 on the Imports of Livestock and Livestock Products from the United States into the Republic of Indonesia. The new regulation lifts the ban which was imposed against U.S. MBM, bone-in beef, bone-derived gelatin, and offals since April 26, 2012. The ban was implemented following the detection of a BSE positive dairy cow in California. The second part of the regulation states that all imports of livestock and livestock products from the United States will revert to all the relevant regulations which were in place prior to the ban. Imports of MBM must meet all the requirements in MOA Regulation No. 482/2006. Imports of carcasses, beef, and edible offals must meet the requirements in MOA Regulation No. 50, which is amended by MOA Regulation No. 63/2013, as well as Ministry of Trade (MOT) Regulation No. 22/2013 (GAIN ID1331)
The new MOA Decree No. 4390/2013 does not have any new restriction on rendering plants exportingto Indonesia. MBM produced by both integrated and independent rendering plants can be exported into Indonesia as long as it meets the requirements in MOA Regulation No. 482/2006.
