REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, LONDON - European Union (EU) revokes ban on Indonesian fisheries to enter its market as it does not prove to contain antibiotics such as chloramphenicol, nitrofurans and tetracyclines. EU annuls the regulation officially on November 6, 2012 through Commission Decision No. 2012/690/EU (CD 690/2012). 

Indonesian Ambassador to Brussel, Arif Havas Oegroseno, said on Friday that the measure would open opportunity to export Indonesian fisheries product to EU market. During the ban, products of Indonesian fisheries must be tested before entering the market. Such step tarnished Indonesian reputation and even some countries in EU categorized Indonesian products as poisonous and dangerous to human health.

Indonesian Government, particularly the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, gradually improve the fishery product which resulted well when European Commission team inspected Indonesian fisheries in February 2012. The earlier allegation that Indonesian fisheries contained antibiotics had proven baseless. The commission then stated that residual management in Indonesian had met the EU standard.

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