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Notifying Member: Indonesia

If applicable, name of local government involved:

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Agency responsible: Indonesian Agricultural Quarantine Agency - Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Indonesia

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Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): Plant and plant products

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Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:

[X]     All trading partners

[ ]      Specific regions or countries:

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Title of the notified document: Official Letter Number: 5984/KR.020/K.3/04/2020 dated 28 April 2020 concerning to Validating of Electronic/Digital/Scanned of Phytosanitary Certificate from Indonesia. Language(s): English. Number of pages: 5

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Description of content: In order to facilitate international trade during the Covid-19 pandemic situation, Indonesia intend to receive the electronic/digital/scanned Phytosanitary Certificate from all countries. It is kindly requested for a country to officially inform Indonesia about the implementation of electronic/digital/scanned Phytosanitary Certificate for their products exported to Indonesia and it shall be supported with access to validate the certificate. This aims to accelerate inspection works of import documents at entry points in Indonesia.

In line with the above stated, Indonesia kindly requested reciprocal measure from trading partner countries to receive the electronic/digital/scanned Phytosanitary Certificate from Indonesia and has developed a technique for validating the certificate through the IAQA portal on: https://ppkonline.karantina.pertanian.go.id/checkcert.

The mechanism of validating the Phytosanitary Certificate as attached in this document.

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Objective and rationale: [ ] food safety, [ ] animal health, [X] plant protection, [X] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [X] protect territory from other damage from pests.

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Nature of the urgent problem(s) and reason for urgent action: The emergency measure for validating Phytosanitary Certificate during the Pandemic of COVID-19 for accelerating export between Indonesia and trading partner.

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Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:

[ ]        Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex standard or related text):

[ ]        World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic Animal Health Code, chapter number):

[X]       International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number): ISPM 12

[ ]        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:

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Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:

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Date of entry into force (dd/mm/yy)/period of application (as applicable): 28 April 2020

[X]     Trade facilitating measure

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Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:

Indonesian Agricultural Quarantine Agency

Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Indonesia

Jl. Harsono RM No. 3, Building E, 1 st Floor

Ragunan, Jakarta 12550, Indonesia

Tel: +(6221) 7816 481

Fax: +(6221) 7821 367

E-mail: sps.indonesia@pertanian.go.id

Website: https://karantina.pertanian.go.id/

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Text(s) available from: [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:

Indonesian Agricultural Quarantine Agency

Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Indonesia

Jl. Harsono RM No. 3, Building E, 1 st Floor

Ragunan, Jakarta 12550, Indonesia

Tel: +(6221) 7816 481

Fax: +(6221) 7821 367

E-mail: sps.indonesia@pertanian.go.id

Website: https://karantina.pertanian.go.id/