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12 May 2025PurposeThis Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise that applications for the accreditation of farms and packhouses, and registration of treatment facilities are now open to export lychees and mangoes to protocol markets for the 2025-26 season.Summary of changes and key…
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16 March 2022
Who does this notice affect?
All clients who are awaiting outcomes of biosecurity assessments.
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The unplanned service disruption to the department’s internal network services has now been resolved.
Action
No action required. The department apologises for any…
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18 February 2019PurposeThis Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to notify industry that the implementation of exchange of electronic export certificates (including phytosanitary certificates) between…
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The giant honey bee is commonly found in China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and the Philippines.
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The risk to Australia
The giant honey bee carries a range of internal and external parasitic mites. These mites could infest Australian bees, resulting in…
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19 January 2017This Biosecurity Advice notifies stakeholders of the release of the Final report for the non-regulated analysis of existing policy for fresh strawberry fruit from the Republic of Korea. The…
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It is important that biosecurity incidents are reported as soon as practicable. This ensures that any biosecurity risk associated with the incident can be managed to an acceptable level and to limit the risk associated with any pest or disease entering, establishing or spreading into Australian…
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15 December 2020
Who does this notice affect?
All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions (BICON) system.
Information
The unplanned outage to the Biosecurity Import Conditions (BICON) system has been resolved.
Action
No action required. The department…
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13 October 2022
Who does this notice affect?
All clients who will be required to lodge inspection requests to the department during this planned outage.
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This scheduled infrastructure maintenance has been cancelled and an outage will not occur at the previously communicated time. It…
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Video transcript: New prawn import laws
Australians love their prawns so much, we need to import them from overseas to keep up with demand.
But we don’t want diseases arriving in Australia with those imports.
Seafood disease experts have studied the biosecurity risks for prawn imports and…
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Key points
To manage biosecurity risks, strict conditions apply to importing dogs (and other pets) into Australia.
These rules are based on science and are design to keep everyone safe—you, your dog, and the Australian people, animals and environment.
If you’re planning to bring your dog to…
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