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Mites like Varroa are threatening Australia’s $14 billion honey bee industry. A new global innovation challenge has been launched to find technologies for detecting and managing European honey bee mites. This project aims to improve Australia’s ability to detect exotic mites at the border and…
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25 October 2023Who does this notice affect?Customs brokers, importers, self-reporting importers, freight forwarders, and accredited persons operating under the class 19.1 non commodity for containerised cargo clearance approved arrangement associated with the reporting of FCLs of solar panels (…
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4 August 2025Who does this notice affect?Stakeholders in the shipping industry including ship masters and shipping agentsWhat has changed?Resolution MEPC.369(80) came into effect on 1 February 2025. The Resolution outlines amendments to Appendix II (Form of Ballast Water Record Book) of the…
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A routine delivery quickly became a biosecurity success story, after quick-thinking staff at a Sydney importer sprang into action after spotting ants inside a 40-foot container of vehicle radiators from overseas.The warehouse team immediately stopped the unpacking process, sprayed the ants with…
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03 September 2025Who does this notice affect?Approved arrangements operators who will be required to view and/or update details of their Approved Arrangement via the Approved Arrangement Management Product (AAMP).Approved arrangements operators, customs brokers, importers, manned depots, and…
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5 September 2025Who does this notice affect?Stakeholders in the shipping industry including ship masters and shipping agentsWhat has changed?DAFF Biosecurity officers will be conducting joint inspections with AMSA Port State Control officers during the 2025 Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on…
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Issue date: 22 July 2002
AQIS has developed a work instruction ‘Inspection of Forest Products for Export’ that provides sampling and inspection standards which, in conjunction with the Grain, Plants…
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8 November 2023
Who does this notice affect?
All clients attempting to contact the department or anticipating outcomes of biosecurity assessments.
Information
The department’s network has been impacted by the outage affecting the Optus mobile and fixed networks. The outage is ongoing but…
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19 December 2013
Purpose
To advise clients that Malaysia’s Department of Agriculture (DoA) intends to implement new phytosanitary import requirements from 1 July 2014.
Key Issues
The DoA has advised the Australian Department of Agriculture (the department) that it intends to implement…
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Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry and AusAID, 2005
This booklet outlines the basic concepts of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement). All WTO member countries are bound by the…
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