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21 February 2019Who does this notice affect?All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions (BICON) System during this planned maintenance period. All importers and customs…
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11 February 2019Who does this notice affect?All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions (BICON) System during this planned maintenance period. All importers and customs…
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The WRA system was developed after a review of Australia’s biosecurity systems which identified the need to screen plants for weed potential before importation.Nairn Quarantine ReviewBefore 1996, plants…
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Final group pest risk analysis for soft and hard scale insects on fresh fruit, vegetable, cut-flower and foliage imports
We have now completed the group pest risk analysis (PRA) for soft and hard scale insects on fresh fruit, vegetable, cut flower and foliage imports.
When we do a group pest risk…
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31 March 2025Who does this notice affect?Domestic stakeholders in the import and shipping industries – including treatment providers, vessel masters, freight forwarders, biosecurity industry participants, importers and exporters, customs brokers, principal shipping agents, and any other operators…
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The Australian Standards for the Export of Livestock (ASEL) requires exporters to provide an End of Journey report to the department for every livestock consignment exported by air. The Livestock exports by air report is compiled from information in the End of Journey reports and includes…
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The Minimum documentary and import declaration requirements policy (Min docs) sets requirements that must be met when lodging an import declaration. The policy also sets the minimum requirements for documents used to support risk assessment of imported goods for biosecurity purposes or for goods…
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We are improving the effectiveness and consistency of the pest risk analysis (PRA) process. A key step in this process is the development of a group PRA approach.
In a PRA, we evaluate the evidence to determine whether an organism:
is a pest
needs regulation
needs phytosanitary measures…
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Joint Communiqué7 December 2023, Auckland, New ZealandOn 7 December 2023, delegates from New Zealand and Australia met at Auckland MPI Centre for the 19th ANZBC annual event co-chaired by the Ministry for Primary Industries’ (MPI) Deputy Director-General Stuart Anderson and Department of…
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Land use mapping in Australia is conducted broadly at two scales: national scale and catchment scale (see figures below). Both land use mapping methods use the Australian Land Use and Management (ALUM) Classification system.National scale (1:2,500,000) uses a modelling approach to integrate…
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