Event Reports

Towards the end of the month of May, the EuroCham Transport and Logistics Working Group held its regular meeting on 30 May 2022. The Meeting discussed a number of relevant policy and regulatory changes of importance to the transportation and logistics sector. This includes provisions of the recently effective Law No. 7 of 2021 regarding Harmonization of Tax Regulation, specifically discussing the implementation of 0% VAT rates on exports of taxable services, input tax calculation and crediting. The Meeting also discussed the Directorate General of Tax Regulation No. PER-03/PJ/2022 on Tax Invoice, and its implementation on current business practice. Lastly this meeting also briefly discussed the Working Group’s organization structure. As the Head of this Working Group remains vacant, along with a number of Deputy positions, members within the Working Group were encouraged to nominate their preferred candidates for the position. This Meeting was chaired by the Deputy Head for Customs and Excise of the EuroCham Transport and Logistics Working Group, Jop Patinggi (General Manager at A. Hartrodt).

As a continuation of the ASEAN Cosmetic Committee (ACC) session, the EuroCham Cosmetics Working Group was once again invited by the National Agency of Drug and Food Control (BPOM) as an observer to the 35th ACC Meeting which was held online on 25 - 27 May 2022. In this meeting, Indonesia served as the Vice-Chair of the Meeting and Cambodia as the chair. This year’s Meeting continued to be conducted online and was attended by representatives from the relevant technical units of BPOM, the related ministries, as well as associations representing the cosmetics industries. The Meeting discussed several issues such as Country Specific Requirements (CSR), Certificate of Free Sale (CFS), Inclusion on Notification number and 2D Barcode, as well as nano labelling.