. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/IDN/12
22 September 2000
(00-3820)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  INDONESIA
If applicable, name of local government involved:           
2. Agency responsible:  Centre for Agricultural Quaran tine, Ministry of Agriculture
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where
applicable).  Fish (all aquatic biota, the life-cycle of which takes place wholly or partly in
water, whether alive or dead including part thereof   R e g i o n s  o r  c o u n t r i e s  l i k e l y  t o  b e
affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  All countries having trade in the above
products with Indonesia
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document:  Government regulation on the
Implementation of Fish Quarantine (55 pages)
5. Description of content:  This draft regulation is aimed at implementation of Law No. 2 of
1992 concerning animal, fish and plant quarantine.  It stipulates the main requirements and
quarantine actions for the implementation into, exportation from, transit in, as well as inter-island movements within the territory of the republic of Indonesia of live fishes, dead fishes
including part thereof, and any other media capable of transmitting fish disease agents.  It
also contains some provisions concerning the determination of quarantine diseases and their
potential carriers, entry and exit points, quarantine facilities/installations, power of
quarantine fees, area under quarantine and public participation in the implementation of fish
quarantine.  No significant differences are found in the provisions of this new regulation if
compared with the existing ones.  Instead, it incorporates mostly the provisions of theexisting regulations stipulated in some ministerial decrees and the current practices of fish
quarantine .
6. Objective and rationale: [    ] food safety,  [   X] animal health,  [     ] plant protection,
[    ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [     ] protect territory from
other damage from pests           
7. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [     ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:  Aquatic Animal Health Code of the OIE
8. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:
9. Proposed date of adoption:  -
10. Proposed date of entry into force:  -G/SPS/N/IDN/12
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11. Final date for comments:  15 November 2000
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [    ] National notification
authority, [  X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:           
12. Texts available from: [    ] National notification authority, [  X ] National enquiry point
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: