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3 September 2024PurposeThis Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to notify all Plant Exports Management System (PEMS) users, including plant export clients, exporters and authorised officers, of outages to the PEMS system due to planned departmental maintenance.Summary of changes and key pointsPEMS will…
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The Intergovernmental Agreement on Biosecurity (IGAB) is an agreement between all Australian governments.The agreement:sets out commitments for the Australian Government, and state and territory governmentsoutlines the agreed national goals and objectivesclarifies roles, responsibilities and…
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2 SeptemberWho does this notice affect?All passengers, travellers, importers, exporters and customs brokers who use the department’s online payment facility.What has changed?Effective Friday 5 September 2025, the Government EasyPay (GEP) service is transitioning to a new service provider. The GEP…
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Banana freckle (Phyllosticta cavendishii) - 9 February 2023
On 9 February 2023, the National Management Group (NMG) met to consider the response to the Emergency Plant Pest (EPP) Phyllosticta cavendishii (banana freckle) in the Northern Territory.
The NMG endorsed a revised response plan to…
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16 December 2022
Who does this notice affect?
Importers of plants for planting (nursery stock) and seed for sowing which are hosts of Xylella.
What has changed?
The department has released the Draft report for the pest risk analysis for bacterial pathogens in the genus Xylella.
The department…
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Exercise Odysseus was a series of 48 discussion exercises and field-based activities that enhanced government and industry preparedness to implement a national livestock standstill in response to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
The exercise took place in 2014 and early 2015, involving…
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30 August 2023
Purpose
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to notify all Plant Export Management System (PEMS) users of expected system maintenance and an associated outage.
Summary of changes and key points
PEMS will be undergoing scheduled maintenance and will be unavailable:
11:00pm…
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Cassia Ferguson [cassiawattle@hotmail.com]
Monday, 4 July 2011 4:51 PM
BA - Plant Biosecurity Contact
New Zealand Apples
To Biosecurity Australia,
My name is Cassia Ferguson and I work in Sydney…
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Date of effect: 28 July 2017
The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (the department) has been advised by the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and the Environment (DPIPWE), Tasmania, that mussel samples from Great Swanport East have returned elevated paralytic shellfish…
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6 June 2019
Who does this notice affect?
This notice is of interest to all vessel masters, crew, passengers and shipping agents who represent international commercial and non-commercial vessels for the purposes of Australian biosecurity clearance.
What has changed?
The Department of…
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