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2014-23 - Manual of Importing Country Requirements (MICoR) – Recent Updates

​Date of Issue: 09 December 2014Date of Effect: ImmediateAttention:Industries - Export Establishments, Industry bodies Department of Agriculture - Central and Regional offices,…
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2017-17 - Horticulture Exports Program – Export application due dates and weeks of audit – Lychee exports to the United States of America – Mango exports to the United States of America, China, Japan and the Republic of Korea

2 May 2017 Purpose To advise the lychee industry of the application due dates and weeks of audit for growers to nominate orchards / blocks for export to the United States of America (USA) and for packhouses and treatment facilities to apply for export to the USA in the 2017-18 season. To advise…
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Inspecting and testing imported food

All food imported into Australia must comply with Australian food standards and requirements for safety. This includes compliance with:the Australia and New Zealand Food Standards Codecountry of origin food labelling requirements.We monitor imported food to check it meets these requirements through…
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Exporting halal red meat and red meat products from Australia

The word halal is Arabic and means ‘permissible’ or ‘lawful’ according to Islamic law. For meat and meat products to be recognised as halal, the animal must be slaughtered and processed in accordance with the requirements of Islamic law.Each year, Australia exports over 1 million tonnes of meat and…
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88-2016 - Post fumigation verification inspections on cut flowers and fresh produce

13 September 2016 Who does this notice affect?Fumigators and importers of cut flowers and fresh produce.What has changed?The department will be conducting post-fumigation inspections for consignments…
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27-2016 - Approval of a new laboratory to test viruses in imported raw frozen prawns

​​6 May 2016Who does this notice affect?This notice is to inform the prawn import industry that the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (the department) approved a laboratory (Agrigen Pty Ltd…
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118-2016 – Changes to the Automatic Entry Processing for Commodities Approved Arrangement (Class 19.2) Requirements document due to transitioning AEPCOMM codes into BICON

12 December 2016Who does this notice affect? The following information is relevant to Biosecurity Industry Participants (BIPs), and accredited persons operating under the Department of Agriculture and…
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Pome fruit from Japan, Korea and China: Petal testing and flower examination

Import conditions for pome fruit are available on the Biosecurity Import Conditions system (BICON), making the import of these goods possible from certain countries. A decision to import these goods…
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2016-01 - Sourcing requirements for fish and fish products for export purposes

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Update: 12/02/2016Date of effect:  immediate Exporters and processing establishments are reminded that the following sourcing requirements set out in the Export Control (Fish and…
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181-2019 - Unscheduled outage: As of 15:30 Thursday 7 November 2019 (AEDT) –BICON, COLS, OPP and PEBS invoicing services

7 November 2019 Who does this notice affect? All clients attempting to access invoices using the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions (BICON) system during this planned maintenance period. All importers and customs brokers who will be required to lodge imported cargo documentation to the…
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