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12 December 2024Who does this notice affect?Stakeholders including importers, customs brokers, freight forwarders and biosecurity industry participants (approved arrangement and compliance agreement holders).What has changed?The department has become aware of circumstances where a single approved…
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AttentionStakeholders in the import industries including importers, customs brokers, freight forwarders, compliance agreement holders and biosecurity industry participants.PurposeTo advise stakeholders that:The department is proposing to introduce a one-off charge that would apply when an approved…
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Date of issue: 12 November 2024Date of effect: 26 November 2024Attention:Registered export manufacturing establishmentsRegistered exporters, agents, and approved export permit issuersDepartment of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) - Central and Regional…
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Date of issue: 12 November 2024Date of effect: 26 November 2024Attention:Registered export manufacturing establishmentsRegistered exporters, agents, and approved export permit issuersDepartment of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) - Central and Regional…
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Date of issue: 12 November 2024Date of effect: 26 November 2024Attention:Registered export manufacturing establishmentsRegistered exporters, agents, and approved export permit issuersDepartment of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) - Central and Regional…
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Japanese sawyer beetle, also known as Japanese pine sawyer, is one of a number of pine-infesting
Monochamus longhorn beetles that attack stressed or recently killed trees. It is known to attack…
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Pseudogymnoascus destructansWhite-nose syndrome (WNS) is one of Australia’s higher-risk exotic environmental diseases. WNS is a fungal disease that affects hibernating bats, leading to high mortality.First recorded in New York bats in 2006, the disease has since spread across the United States and…
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Our import risk analyses are consistent with Australia’s international biosecurity obligations. This includes our obligations under the:
World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement)
International Plant Protection Convention (…
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You may be familiar with the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), but how much do you know about its dotted relation, the yellow spotted stink bug (Erthesina fullo)?Following a spike in border detections during the 2023–24 season, the yellow spotted stink bug (YSSB) was added to Australia’s National…
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15 July 2025Who does this notice affect?All persons who currently bring in or import live animals or animal products e.g. meat, into Christmas Island or the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.What is happening?To effectively safeguard the biosecurity of the islands, we are considering amending existing…
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