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215-2022: Biosecurity Portal is enhanced with new features

01 November 2022 Who is affected by this notice? Approved arrangements operators, customs brokers, importers, manned depots, and freight forwarders wishing to book and manage requests for import inspections using the Biosecurity Portal. Who is not affected by this notice? Clients who require…
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05-2025: Self-service cargo status reports now available on the Biosecurity Portal

9 January 2025Who does this notice affect?Persons under an approved arrangement class 19, including customs brokers and self-reporting importers, who are interested in accessing on-demand details of entries that have been referred to the department.What has changed?The department is pleased to…
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45-2025: *Update* Scheduled Outage: Thursday 20 February to Friday 21 February 2025 – Multiple Systems

19 February 2025Who does this notice affect?All clients submitting the below declarations:Full Import Declaration (FID)Long Form Self Assessed Clearance (LFSAC)Short Form Self Assessed Clearance (SFSAC)Cargo Report Self Assessed Clearance (CRSAC)Cargo Report Personal Effects (PE)Approved…
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Poor destination habitat

OverviewOnly approving imports to areas that are unfavourable for the establishment of the pest.Examples include allowing imports to specific ports where the climate is unsuitable for the pest, or where facilities are designed to manage pest establishment risks (e.g. ports with concrete pads for…
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MAA 2025-03: Egg and egg products: *AMENDED* All Markets: Notification of disease detection - Update 17: Highly pathogenic avian influenza (H7N8) detected on poultry egg farm in Victoria - February 2025

Date of issue: 12 February 2025Date of effect: ImmediateRelated 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, 2024-47AttentionEgg Exporters - AustralianEgg Export…
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Questions and Answers

21 December 2012 Import risk analysis Why has this announcement on fresh salacca fruit from Indonesia been made? Indonesia requested market access to Australia for fresh salacca (snake fruit) in…
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Questions and Answers - Lychees from Taiwan and Vietnam

​Why has this announcement on fresh lychee fruit from Taiwan and Vietnam been made? Both Taiwan and Vietnam requested market access for fresh lychee fruit in 2003. Lychees are Taiwan’s and Vietnam’s top priority horticultural market access requests to Australia. The department is now in a…
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Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Submission to the Draft Import Risk Analysis for the Importation of Fresh Unshu Mandarin Fruit From Japan

No.20-7015 Food Safety and Consumer Affairs Bureau 25 Sept 2008 Ms Louise van Meurs General Manager Plant Biosecurity Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Exportation of Japanese unshu…
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37-2019 - Services Restored - Unscheduled Service Disruption Impacting AIMS, COLS, ICS, S-Cargo and SAC Tuesday 19 March 2019 (AEDT)

​​19 March 2019Who does this notice affect? All importers and customs brokers who will be required to lodge imported cargo documentation to the department for biosecurity assessment.Information Due to…
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270-2024: New application form to request biosecurity inspection at a non-Approved Arrangement site

18 November 2024Who does this notice affect?​​Stakeholders seeking to apply for approval for a biosecurity inspection to occur at a non- Approved Arrangement (AA) site. This includes importers and customs brokers with goods that are unable to be managed at an existing AA site.What has changed?​​The…
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