importation of live animals and meat products in october 2006 brazil expressed concern regarding indonesias government regulation 82 2000 applicable to quarantine import procedures for animals and related products. brazil noted that regulation 82 2000 did not comply with the regionalization provisions of article 6 of the sps agreement or with chapter 1.3.5 of the oie territorial animal health code as it did not take into account the sanitary characteristics of the areas from which the products originated but required the whole territory of an exporting country to be free of any diseases that were not present in indonesia. as a result of indonesias regulation brazil was frequently facing import restrictions on a broad variety of its products on the basis of the food-and-mouth disease fmd even from fmd free zones. in particular there was no scientific justification for import restrictions on goods which could not under any circumstance transmit the fmd agent meat products submitted to treatments which were internationally recognized as capable of inactivating the fmd virus and restrictions on heat-treated vegetable products. these unjustified import restrictions resulted in huge financial losses. brazil urged indonesia to adopt national protection levels based on risk assessments taking into account the relevant provisions of the sps agreement and oie standards. argentina australia and new zealand expressed similar concerns regarding indonesias draft regulation g sps n idn 30 on the importation of meat products. they indicated their intentions to submit comments on the draft regulation before the comment deadline. argentina urged indonesia to adjust its risk analysis to the oie standards while new zealand further noted that indonesia had not indicated in its notification when the draft decree might be adopted. they encouraged indonesia to work with other members to address their concerns before adopting the draft decree. indonesia reported that with regards to the importation of live animals and meat products indonesia had been conducting a review of its legislation and would soon notify to the wto a new decree on import of meat of various types of species. the new regulation replaced the existing regulation decree 745 1992 on the requirements for meat importation. one of the eventual requirements for countries to be eligible to export meat and meat products intended for human consumption to indonesia was their fmd free status. recognition of the disease-free status would be based on an oie declaration. a further requirement for fmd-free countries to export meat to indonesia would be a desk audit and on-site audit to be carried out by the director general of livestock services dgls . in relation to animal importation existing regulations would remain in effect. with regards to bse indonesia stated that the requirements for the importation of live ruminants and ruminant products from countries or zones declared as negligible bse risk by the oie had been set out in a new decree. in principle under the new regulation live ruminants and ruminant products from countries or zones declared as negligible bse risk by the oie were allowed to be imported to indonesia. imports of meat and meat products from bse-risk countries were prohibited. however there were exceptions that included meat and meat products originating from de-boned meat as specified in article 2.3.1.3.1 of oie code. the additional requirements to export meat and meat products to indonesia were that such commodities should have originated from an establishment approved by the dgls and that also met the healthy food requirement of indonesia. the oie clarified that article 1 of the bse chapter contained a list of safe commodities that were judged to present no bse risk no matter the bse status of the exporting country. this included de-boned skeletal muscle meat that could be imported from a country irrespective of its bse status. in february 2007 brazil reiterated its con