In this paper,the authors first introduce the concept of congruence pairs on the class of decomposable MS-algebras generalizing that for principal MS-algebras(see[13]).They show that every congruence relation θ on a decomposable MS-algebra L can be uniquely determined by a congruence pair(θ1,θ2),where θ1 is a congruence on the de Morgan subalgebra L°° of L and θ2 is a lattice congruence on the sublattice D(L)of L.They obtain certain congruence pairs of a decomposable MS-algebra L via central elements of L.Moreover,they characterize the permutability of congruences and the strong extensions of decomposable MS-algebras in terms of congruence pairs.