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Date of issue: 14 February 2025Date of effect: ImmediateReference Number: MAA 2025-04Related MAAs: 2024-08, 2024-10, 2024-12, 2024-13, 2024-15, 2024-16, 2024-18, 2024-20, 2024-22, 2024-25, 2024-26, MAA 2024-29, MAA 2024-30, MAA 2024-32, MAA 2024-35, MAA 2024-40, 2024-47, 2025-03AttentionEgg…
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We regularly publish illegal logging e-updates. These provide updates of key developments with the illegal logging laws, guidance, and information about upcoming events. They are sent out via an e-newsletter.The newsletter contains relevant information for:timber processorsimporterscustoms…
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3 December 2015Who does this notice affect?This notice applies to agricultural export industries. PurposeTo advise exporters that the Australian Government has announced the development of…
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Biosecurity Solomon Islands (BSI) and Honiara Herbarium staff together with departmental staff have recently returned from a plant health survey in the Solomon Islands. These joint plant health surveys are a key part of a collaborative partnership that has been running for over a decade which has…
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23 August 2024Who does this notice affect?Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including vessel masters, freight forwarders, offshore treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers, customs brokers, principal agents and master consolidators.What has changed?…
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Under the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) Agreement, World Trade Organization (WTO) members are entitled to maintain a level of protection they consider appropriate to protect life or health within their territory.
We refer to this as the Appropriate Level of Protection (ALOP).
We…
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3 June 2025Who does this notice affect?Food importers and brokers acting on behalf of food importers.What is changing?From 14 June 2025 the food safety requirements that apply to food imported for sale into Australia will be incorporated into the Biosecurity Import Conditions system (BICON).For…
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In June, Dr Beth Cookson (Australia’s Chief Veterinary Officer), Dr Gabrielle Vivian-Smith (Australia’s Chief Plant Protection Officer) and Dr Bertie Hennecke (Australia’s Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer) participated in the inaugural One Health Symposium in Canberra.Hosted by the interim…
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Date of issue: 20 October 2023
Date of effect: Immediately
Reference Number: MAA2023-08
Related MAAs: N/A
Attention:
Industries—Industry bodies – Seafood Export Consultative Committee, Seafood Trade Advisory Group, Seafood Industry Australia
Export establishments
Exporters, AEPI and NEXDOC…
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A team from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry are currently undertaking a joint plant health survey with the Timor-Leste Directorate for Quarantine and Biosecurity (DNQB) for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.
As part of the department’s International Plant Health…
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