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60-2024: Update: Minimum documentary and import declaration requirements policy – Industry focus groups

2 April 2024

Who does this notice affect?

Importers, biosecurity industry participants and accredited persons operating under the department’s class 19 approved arrangements, freight forwarders and other industry participants who arrange documentation for imported goods.

59-2024: Document Assessment Outside Business Hours- New Process

2 April 2024

Who does this notice affect?

All importers and customs brokers who currently lodge imported cargo documentation and wish to request an assessment outside of business hours.

Background

We continue to undertake all our regulatory activities as efficiently as possible, including actively using overtime arrangements to facilitate clearances where it is industry requested, and the overtime fees and charges are accepted and can be appropriately recovered.

58-2024: New biosecurity cost recovery charge on self-assessed clearance (SAC) declarations to start from 1 July 2024 – to be applied to the entity lodging the SAC

2 April 2024

Who does this notice affect?

All customs brokers, importers, self-reporting importers, freight forwarders of goods AUD$1,000 or less in value.

57-2024: Import conditions for fresh chilli fruit from Fiji

2 April 2024

Who does this notice affect?

​​This notice affects importers of fresh horticulture produce and brokers.

What has changed?

​​Import conditions are now published on BICON for the importation of fresh chilli fruit from Fiji (except the Island of Rotuma). Three (3) varieties of chilli fruit from Fiji are permitted to be imported into Australia – bird’s eye, hot rod and red fire.

Targeted temporary suspension by Indonesia announced

Australia has received confirmation from the Indonesian authorities that the export of live cattle from a particular registered establishment in the Northern Territory has been temporarily suspended, pending further investigations to determine the

Animal Biosecurity Advice 2024-A03 - Issues Paper - Review of the biosecurity risks associated with veterinary immunobiologicals

4 April 2024

This Animal Biosecurity Advice notice announces the publication of the Issues Paper ‘Review of the biosecurity risks associated with veterinary immunobiologicals’. The department is undertaking this review with the intention of publishing new import policies for veterinary immunobiologicals, including vaccines.

The department invites stakeholders to put forward preliminary submissions in anticipation of the review. Interested stakeholders should provide submissions by close of business Thursday, 6 June 2024.

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