Don’t let seeds cost your pocket and Australia’s environment
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114-2025: Scheduled Outage: Saturday 12 April to Sunday 13 April 2025 – DAFF messaging
09 April 2025
Who 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)
All clients required to use the Export / Next Export Documentation (EXDOC/NEXDOC) systems during this planned maintenance period.
112-2025: Scheduled Outage: Thursday 10 April to Friday 11 April 2025 – Multiple Systems
08 April 2025
Who does this notice affect?
All clients required to use Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry web-based applications during this planned maintenance period.
All users of the Seasonal Pests (SeaPest) system.
All clients required to use the eCertificate exports portal who will be required to view or download export certification during this planned maintenance period.
All clients required to use the Export / Next Export Documentation (EXDOC/NEXDOC) systems during this planned maintenance period.
Engaging with industry on our biosecurity operations
Monica Collins, First Assistant Secretary, Biosecurity Operations Division, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry authored an article in the Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) Across Borders Magazine with an update on Australia’s biose
110-2025: Australian Fumigation Accreditation Scheme: treatment provider ‘suspended’, M/s Blue Bird Pest Control Pvt. Ltd. (AEI: IN0419MB)
7 April 2025
Who 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.
2025-16: Plant Exports Branch – Methyl bromide and other biosecurity fumigation updates
04 April 2025
Purpose
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to provide information to treatment providers, exporters and authorised officers (AOs) on the planned update to the Methyl bromide fumigation methodology and upcoming information sessions.
Traveller announcement resources
Access our approved inflight announcements for use on all international flights. They are available in several languages.
Inflight traveller announcements must NOT be edited.
They provide important information on Australia’s biosecurity requirements.
Incoming traveller announcement
The incoming traveller announcement is a legal requirement on all international flights and must be delivered before the first landing place in Australian territory.
108-2025: Services Restored: Friday 04 April 2025 – AAMP, DAFF messaging
4 April 2025
Who 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).
All clients submitting the below declarations:
National Biosecurity Committee Meeting 42
The National Biosecurity Committee (NBC) met on 19 and 20 March 2025 in Canberra. The meeting was co-chaired by Justine Saunders (Deputy Secretary, Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) and Rachel Chay (Deputy Director General & Chief Biosecurity Officer, Biosecurity Queensland, Department of Primary Industries).
107-2025: Services Restored: Friday 04 April 2025 – BCST
4 April 2025
Who does this notice affect?
Approved arrangement operators attempting to access online reports of entries referred to the department for biosecurity assessment, or management under a class 19 Approved Arrangement, via the Biosecurity Cargo Status Tracker (BCST).
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Resolved time:
As of: 10:00 Friday 04 April 2025 (AEDT).
The unplanned service disruption to the Biosecurity Cargo Status Tracker (BCST) has been resolved. The associated urgent scheduled outage to the BCST to facilitate the resolution has also since concluded.