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31 July 2024Who does this notice affect?Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including vessel masters, freight forwarders, Master Consolidators, treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers, customs brokers, and principal agents— associated with importing goods…
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We have started a review of the biosecurity risks associated with importing veterinary immunobiologicals into Australia.
Steps to complete this reviewWhen we do this review, we:seek preliminary submissions from interested stakeholdersreview the science on pests…
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We have started a review of the biosecurity risks associated with importing foetal bovine serum into Australia.
Steps to complete this reviewWhen we do a review, we:review the science on pests and diseases of concernassess and analyse biosecurity risksdevelop…
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12 August 2025Who does this notice affect?Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including vessel masters, freight forwarders, Master Consolidators, treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers, customs brokers, and principal agents— associated with importing goods…
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6 October 2020
Who does this notice affect?
All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions (BICON) System during this planned maintenance period.
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Due to scheduled maintenance, the Department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions (BICON)…
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12 May 2023
Who does this notice affect?
All importers and customs brokers who will be required to lodge imported cargo documentation to the department for biosecurity assessment during this planned maintenance period.
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Update: The planned infrastructure maintenance for Friday 12 May…
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24 March 2025Who does this notice affect?All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON) during this planned outage.InformationTo support system maintenance, BICON will be unavailable from 23:00 Friday 28 March to 03:00 Saturday 29 March 2025 (AEDT).…
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Australia’s biosecurity legislation allows us to adapt to changing biosecurity risk. From time to time, we update import requirements to strengthen control on goods where risk has increased,…
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What is khapra beetle?
Khapra beetle (Trogoderma granarium) is Australia’s number two National Priority Plant Pest and the number one plant priority…
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Australia's commercial fishing and aquaculture industry is worth around $3.6 billion per year (ABARES 2023) and employs about 17,000 people (ABARES 2019). Each year, Commonwealth managed fisheries generate over $370 million in value alone, which represents about 27% of the total value of…
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