Minister of Trade Regulation No. 62/M-DAG/PER/12/2009 was issued last year to regulate the mandatory labeling of many non-food products using Bahasa Indonesia (see ILB No. 1302 4/2/2010): that Regulation was recently amended by Minister of Trade Regulation No. 22/M-DAG/PER/5/2010 (“Amendment”), which (a) makes changes to the types of goods exempted from labeling requirements, and (b) accelerates the timeframe for implementation from 21 December 2010 previously to 1 September 2010 under the current Amendment, among other things.
Indeed, the Amendment extends more exemptions from the new labeling requirements. Whereas previously, only motor vehicle-related raw materials and intermediate products were exempted from the labeling obligation, now the exemption is extended more generally to non-food products to be used as raw materials and / or supporting materials used to produce final consumer products, now including electronic goods, building materials, motor vehicle intermediates, and other categories of goods specified throughout Attachments I - IV of the Amendment.
Although the Minister of Trade had indicated that the timeline for complying with the labeling requirements on unsold goods would be accelerated, the proposed date of 1 July 2010 encountered resistance in the business community (see: ILB No. 1388 13/4/2010). Customer protection may be a business ideal in principle, but the short timeframe for technological and procedural adjustments - often necessary to accommodate increased labeling standards - created sanction-related anxieties (e.g., revoked business license). The new date for compliance, 1 September 2010, is contained in Article II of the Amendment.
Given the difficulty of recalling and re-labeling goods that have already been distributed and circulated on the market, importers and producers of already-marketed goods are given 18 months to comply with the amended labeling requirements, while the original regulation granted only 12 months from the date of its enforcement.
Although the Amendment was issued on 21 May 2010, the Amended Regulation as a whole will take force on 1 September 2010.
Minister of Trade Regulation No. 62/M-DAG/PER/12/2009 was issued last year to regulate the mandatory labeling of many non-food products using Bahasa Indonesia (see ILB No. 1302 4/2/2010): that Regulation was recently amended by Minister of Trade Regulation No. 22/M-DAG/PER/5/2010 (“Amendment”), which (a) makes changes to the types of goods exempted from labeling requirements, and (b) accelerates the timeframe for implementation from 21 December 2010 previously to 1 September 2010 under the current Amendment, among other things.
Indeed, the Amendment extends more exemptions from the new labeling requirements. Whereas previously, only motor vehicle-related raw materials and intermediate products were exempted from the labeling obligation, now the exemption is extended more generally to non-food products to be used as raw materials and / or supporting materials used to produce final consumer products, now including electronic goods, building materials, motor vehicle intermediates, and other categories of goods specified throughout Attachments I - IV of the Amendment.
Although the Minister of Trade had indicated that the timeline for complying with the labeling requirements on unsold goods would be accelerated, the proposed date of 1 July 2010 encountered resistance in the business community (see: ILB No. 1388 13/4/2010). Customer protection may be a business ideal in principle, but the short timeframe for technological and procedural adjustments - often necessary to accommodate increased labeling standards - created sanction-related anxieties (e.g., revoked business license). The new date for compliance, 1 September 2010, is contained in Article II of the Amendment.
Given the difficulty of recalling and re-labeling goods that have already been distributed and circulated on the market, importers and producers of already-marketed goods are given 18 months to comply with the amended labeling requirements, while the original regulation granted only 12 months from the date of its enforcement.
Although the Amendment was issued on 21 May 2010, the Amended Regulation as a whole will take force on 1 September 2010.
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