KKP Collaborates With Norway To Improve Quality Of Quality Of Quality Tests For Marine And Fishery Products

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) cooperates with Norwegian authorities to increase the quality testing capacity and food safety of marine and fishery products.

The cooperation is at the same time an effort to equalize the position with Norway in digitizing fishery product trading.

"The current issue of quality and food safety is an important part of global trade in various commodities, including fisheries," said Head of the Marine and Fishery Product Quality Supervision and Control Agency (BPPMHKP) KKP Ishartini quoted from the KKP official website, Wednesday, November 20.

Ishartini said the relationship between the KKP and Norway is getting closer considering the mutual recognition arrangement (MRA) with the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (NFSA) which was signed since October 1, 2022.

BPPMHKP itself is the competent authority of the Indonesian Quality and Safety Security System of Marine and Fishery Products (SJMKHKP) through the official notification of the World Trade Organization (WTO) number G/SPS/N/IDN/147.

The implementation of the notification process is in accordance with the procedures that apply nationally as stipulated in the Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture (Permentan) Number 11/PERMENTAN/KR.100/3/2016.

"The recognition of BPPMHKP as competent authority is officially accepted, including from Norway, the European Union, RRT, the United States, South Korea, Russia, Vietnam and many other countries," said Ishartini.

According to Ishartini, cooperation with Norway is an effort so that the SJMKHP carried out by BPPMHKP can be in line with global flows, especially in providing quality and safety guarantees for marine and fishery products from upstream or along supply chains.

The follow-up to the MRA KKP-NFSA includes the normalization of the trade in fishery commodities between the two countries as of October 2, 2024.

Then, the plan to carry out a joint workshop in 2024 is related to the risk management of fishery commodity trading, joint inspections to the registration of the Fish Processing Unit (UPI).

"Some have not been implemented due to reorganization, such as workshops and capacity building cooperation for quality testing and joint cooperation on post market surveillance on food safety and we continue to strive for this," he said.