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The department’s Rural R&D for Profit program has delivered a vital tool for protecting our plant industries: a National Diagnostic Protocol (NDP) for Pine-Wood Nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus).
Date of issue: 2 May 2024
Dates of effect: 4 May 2024, 6 May 2024 and 18 May 2024
Registered dairy exporters, manufacturers, agents, freight forwarders, approved export permit issuers and EDI users.
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) - Central and Regional offices.
To notify Next Export Documentation (NEXDOC) system users that NEXDOC will be impacted due to planned departmental maintenance.
2 May 2024
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise exporters of planned outages for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) Next Export Documentation (NEXDOC) system.
To notify Next Export Documentation (NEXDOC) system users that NEXDOC will be impacted due to planned departmental maintenance.
To ensure there is no disruption to your consignments, please do not lodge requests for exports (REXs) during:
In April, the Chief Plant Protection Officer Dr Gabrielle Vivian-Smith attended the 18th Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-18) in Rome, leading the Australian delegation including Dr Sophie Peterson and Rama Karri from the department, Dr R
The Australian Government is searching for a service provider to deliver the Forestry Workforce Training Program (the Program), with an approach to market open from today.
01 May 2024
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry that applications are now open for the accreditation of farms and packhouses for the export of bananas, capsicum, papaya and sweetcorn under the New Zealand Export Plan (Export Plan).
Applications are now open for the accreditation of farms and packhouses intending to export fresh bananas, capsicum, papaya and sweetcorn to New Zealand.
1 May 2024
Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including Master Consolidators, vessel masters, freight forwarders, treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers, customs brokers and principal agents— associated with shipping or importing goods that require increased intervention during the 2023-24 BMSB risk season.
On 1 May 2024, the 2023-24 BMSB risk season ended.
1 May 2024
All clients required to use Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry web-based applications during this planned maintenance period.
The department will be conducting scheduled infrastructure maintenance from 23:00 Saturday 04 May to 03:00 Sunday 05 May 2024 (AEST).
During this time, all DAFF applications may experience four, 5-minute outages. These applications include, but are not limited to:
30 April 2024
This Biosecurity Advice notifies stakeholders of the release of the draft report for Pomelo fruit from Vietnam: biosecurity import requirements.
On 30 April 2024, we hosted a webinar about two projects aligned with Animalplan.
