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2020-50 - Grain and Seeds Exports Program – Update to inspection of hay and straw instructional material

6 August 2020 Purpose This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise that the instructional material for the inspection of hay and straw for export has been updated. Key points The following new instructional material is available on the Plant Export Operations Manual (PEOM): Guideline:…
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2020-41 - Grain and Seed Exports Program and Horticulture Exports Program – Chinese Customs requiring food and edible agriculture exports to sign a declaration that their product is free from COVID-19

23 June 2020PurposeThis Industry Advice Notice (IAN) provides information to assist Australian exporters of food and edible agricultural products to respond to requests from China for guarantees their exports are safe and free from COVID-19.Summary of changes and key pointsThe department has…
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Meat Notice 2020-05 – Cysticercus ovis disposition - Alignment with Australian Standard 4696:2007

24 September 2020 Download Document Pages File size Meat Notice 2020-05 - Cysticercus ovis disposition - Alignment with Australian Standard 4696:2007  3 226 KB If you have difficulty accessing these files, visit web accessibility for assistance…
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2019-62 - Plant Exports – Christmas and New Year period arrangements

10 December 2019 Purpose This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry and Authorised Officers about arrangements for plant exports systems and services during the Christmas and New Year period. Summary of changes and key points The department's Canberra offices and some regional…
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Biosecurity Advice 2015/03 - Draft review of policy: importation of Phytophthora ramorum host propagative material into Australia

​16 March 2015This Biosecurity Advice (BA) invites stakeholders to provide comments on the ‘Draft review of policy: importation of Phytophthora ramorum host propagative material into Australia’ by…
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Report of the Eminent Scientists Group on the Import Risk of Apples from New Zealand to the Director of Animal and Plant Quarantine

​Dr John C Radcliffe AM Emeritus Professor Malcolm Nairn AM Dr Mark Lonsdale Dr T J Higgins October 2006IntroductionThe then Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestr,…
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Rainforest

This profile has been superseded by the 2019 version, which is available here. View the complete Australian forest profiles series. Information for this profile is drawn from Australia's State of the Forests Report 2013. ​Australia has 3.6 million hectares of the Rainforest native forest…
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Food Safety Recognition Agreements (Arrangements) with other countries

Food safety recognition agreements (arrangements) can be mutual, meaning both countries recognise each other’s food safety regulatory systems as comparable (equivalent) to their own, or they can be unilateral, meaning only one country out of the two will recognise the other country’s food safety…
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Terms of reference for the review of the Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy

​Background In December 2005, the then Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation directed the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to undertake a number of actions to improve…
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2015-35 – Horticulture Exports Program – Clarification of 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

​​​16 July 2015 Purpose To advise the lychee industry that due dates for the second round of grower, packhouse and treatment facility applications and weeks of audit for exports to the United States of America (USA) have been amended. All other advice contained in IAN 2015/32 remains current,…
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