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30 June 2017This Biosecurity Advice notifies stakeholders that:The import suspension on uncooked prawns will lapse on 6 July 2017.Enhanced import conditions will be implemented on 7 July 2017, to allow…
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What's new?Safeguarding Arrangement applications will be open between 28 July 2025 and 30 January 2026.The department has introduced several mandatory and important changes for the 2025-26 BMSB (Brown Marmorated Stink Bug) season.Updates include:Revised application formIntroduction of the mandatory…
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Biosecurity is a multi-layered issue. To aid understanding of biosecurity and how it impacts Australia, the department creates videos and other helpful visual resources for reference.
Here you will find materials developed specifically to aid awareness of current biosecurity issues and topics.…
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Authors: Bertie Hennecke, Lucy Arrowsmith and José ten Have
Prickly Pear (left) and Blackberry (right) are included in the list of 32 Weeds of National Significance (WoNS) agreed by Australian governments based on an assessment process that prioritised these weeds based on their invasiveness,…
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News and alertsChanges to Pathogen testing requirements for tomato and capsicum seedsEffective 12 November 2025, Australia implemented revised seed testing policies for tomato and capsicum. As part of this review, the list of approved testing protocols for the detection of Tomato brown rugose fruit…
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This table shows the dairy export TRQ categories administered by the Department of Agriculture available under the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) arrangements with the US and the EU.
The information here may help exporters to understand how…
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Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, October 2020
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The Australian…
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We have published import conditions for fresh pomelo (Citrus maxima) from Vietnam on our Biosecurity Import Conditions system (BICON). Import permits can now be issued.The decision to commence imports is a commercial decision between an exporter in Vietnam and an importer in Australia. The importer…
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If an international vessel wishes to bring goods to a place within a first point of entry (FPOE) that is not designated as a biosecurity entry point for those goods, an application for permission under section 148 of the Biosecurity Act 2015 must be submitted directly to the department for approval…
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25 October 2016PurposeTo advise mainland Australian apple and pear entities that applications for exports to Thailand for the 2017 season have opened.BackgroundCountries with protocol markets have specific…
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