1 August 2025
Who does this notice affect?
Importers of dairy (excluding cheese, chocolate and lactose) for human consumption from San Marino.
Importers of bovine fluids and tissues for laboratory research from San Marino.
Importers of veterinary therapeutics from San Marino.
What has changed?
On 23 June 2025, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry was notified of an outbreak of Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) in Italy. The department has conducted a risk assessment and determined that due to the specific context in which San Marino operates and its geographic proximity to Italy, San Marino should no longer be considered free from LSD from 6 March 2025.
To manage the biosecurity risk to Australia, San Marino has been removed from the LSD-free country list and the list of countries approved for bovine fluids and tissues.
Impacted goods include:
- Dairy* products for human consumption (excluding cheese, lactose and chocolate for human consumption), that is sourced, manufactured or exported from San Marino
- Laboratory goods containing bovine fluids or tissues that list San Marino as a country of origin, manufacture or export
- Laboratory goods that reference the list of countries approved for bovine fluids and tissues
- Veterinary therapeutics containing or derived from bovine material from San Marino.
*Permit holders for dairy products imported from San Marino will be contacted to have their permits amended. Dairy permit holders from other countries are not impacted by the removal of San Marino from the LSD-Country Freedom List as the LSD freedom conditions have already been removed for this commodity type.
Future biosecurity arrangements
The department will contact individual import permit holders shortly to advise them on ongoing arrangements for their import permits.
For goods that are currently in transit to Australia
The department will assess these goods on a case-by-case basis, and if the biosecurity risk can be effectively managed, the goods can be released.
If you experience clearance issues, please contact imports@aff.gov.au for assistance.
Further information
Please contact the department by phone 1800 900 090 or email to imports@aff.gov.au if you have any questions.
More information about LSD and the trade situation in Europe can be found on the department’s website. Note the website will be updated with more information as it becomes available.