Date of issue: 30 October 2025
Date of effect: 3 November 2025
Reference Number: MAA 2025-07
Attention
- Industry bodies – Seafood Export Consultative Committee, Seafood Trade Advisory Group, Seafood Industry Australia
- Seafood Export establishments
- Exporters, Automated Export Permit Issuers (AEPIs) and Next Export Documentation System (NEXDOC) users
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Central and Regional offices
Purpose
This Market Access Advice (MAA) is to inform industry of export certificate template updates for fish and fish products for human consumption to the European Union (EU).
Exporters may experience disruptions or errors when raising a Request for Export (REX) through the Next Export Documentation (NEXDOC) system between 8am and 12pm AEDT on Monday 3 November 2025 while the updates occur.
Summary of key points
Template updates are required to re-align certification with recently amended model export health certificates required by the EU.
New certificate templates (EUFXA3 and EUFXA4) will be made available for finfish, crustaceans, cephalopod molluscs, and their products due to new certificate endorsement requirements for aquaculture and wild origin products.
Existing certificate templates (EUFXB1-EUFXB5) for bivalve molluscs, marine gastropods, echinoderms, and tunicates only required administrative changes and there is no change to the certificate templates available for these products.
Exporters may experience disruptions or errors when raising a Request for Export (REX) through the Next Export Documentation (NEXDOC) system between 8am and 12pm AEDT on Monday 3 November 2025 while the updates occur. Please contact NEXDOC helpdesk if you experience any issues during or after this release period.
These changes do not affect the process exporters must follow when lodging a REX to obtain health certification. The correct health certificate templates will continue to automatically populate based on the product lines entered.
Certificates available for use from Monday 3 November 2025
- A summary of the new and amended certificate templates available for the export of fish and fish products for human consumption are outlined in Table One below.
- Please note that for consignments containing both non-viable aquaculture origin and non-viable wild origin finish or both live aquaculture origin and live wild origin crustaceans under the same REX, NEXDOC will automatically generate separate certificates for the wild origin and aquaculture products on the new templates.
- Changes to certificates for marine gastropods, bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates, and their products (EUFXB1, EUFXB2, EUFXB3, EUFXB4, EUFXB5) are minor and editorial in nature (updates to regulation references and minor wording changes).
| Commodity | eCert template name | Change |
|---|---|---|
| For the export of wild origin frozen, chilled, dried and canned non-viable finfish, crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs that are packaged for retail sale e.g., Frozen yellowtail kingfish, frozen octopus, fish oil, frozen tuna | EUFXA1 | Modified for wild origin only |
| For the export of wild origin live crustaceans packaged and labelled for human consumption | EUFXA2 | Modified for wild origin only |
| For the export of aquaculture origin frozen, chilled, dried and canned non-viable finfish, crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs that are packaged for retail sale e.g. Frozen yellowtail kingfish, frozen octopus, fish oil, frozen tuna | EUFXA3 | New template for aquaculture origin only |
| For the export of aquaculture origin live crustaceans packaged and labelled for human consumption | EUFXA4 | New template for aquaculture origin only |
| For the export of live marine gastropod molluscs | EUFXB1 | Editorial change only |
| For the export of non-viable bivalve molluscs ready for direct human consumption e.g. Frozen, chilled, canned | EUFXB2 | Editorial change only |
| For the export of non-viable marine gastropods, echinoderms and tunicates ready for direct human consumption e.g. Frozen, chilled, canned. | EUFXB3 | Editorial change only |
| For the export of live bivalve molluscs | EUFXB4 | Editorial change only |
| For the export of live bivalve molluscs packaged and labelled for human consumption and packaged for retail sale | EUFXB5 | Editorial change only |
Micor
The Manual of Importing Country Requirements (Micor) will be updated to reflect this market access advice. The department encourages users of Micor to subscribe to the Micor update service for a commodity-specific email that lists changes that have been made the preceding week.
Further information
Contact ExportStandards@aff.gov.au if you have any queries.
The information provided above is current at the time of writing and is intended for use as guidance only and should not be taken as definitive or exhaustive. The Commonwealth endeavours to keep information current and accurate, however, it may be subject to change without notice. Exporters are encouraged to verify these details with their importers prior to undertaking production/exports. The Commonwealth will not accept liability for any loss resulting from reliance on information contained in this notice.