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1 March 2024
All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions (BICON) system during this planned maintenance period.
Due to urgent system maintenance, BICON users may experience several intermittent outages from 14:30 to 16:30 Friday 01 March 2024 (AEDT).
Users are advised to frequently save any in-progress permit applications during this maintenance period.
1 March 2024
All importers and brokers awaiting biosecurity directions from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (department).
As of: 02:30 Thursday 29 February 2024 (AEDT).
The department’s Agriculture Import Management System (AIMS) is currently experiencing an unplanned service disruption, which is causing delays in the issuing of biosecurity directions to some importers and brokers.
As part of our work under the Northern Australia Biosecurity Strategy (NABS), we have developed an animation to increase awareness and encourage early detection and reporting of the disease.
Download and share our video.
28 February 2024
All importers and customs brokers who will be required to lodge imported cargo documentation to the department for biosecurity assessment during this planned maintenance period.
Due to scheduled infrastructure maintenance, the Cargo Online Lodgement System (COLS) may experience a brief service disruption from 23:30 Saturday 02 March to 04:30 Sunday 03 March 2024 (AEDT).
28 February 2024
Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries – including Biosecurity Industry Participants, master consolidators, vessel masters, freight forwarders, importers, customs brokers and principle shipping agents – associated with the transport or importation of chemical or mined (inorganic) fertiliser.
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry is undertaking external consultation in relation to proposed changes to its Imported Inorganic Fertiliser Management policies.
Farmers can be confident for the future of strong traceability standards across the board, thanks to the trial of data enabled traceability concepts and a new traceability protocol.
It was the poor condition of their land in Queensland’s Central Highlands which forced graziers Greg and Sonya Spencer to start adapting their practices to drought.
27 February 2024
All clients lodging Self Assessed Clearances
All users of the below systems:
Due to scheduled infrastructure maintenance, the Import Management System (IMS) will be unavailable from 23:30 Wednesday 28 February to 05:00 Thursday 29 February 2024 (AEDT).
27 February 2024
Species: All
Countries: All
To inform stakeholders that the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry is conducting a user account audit on Micor, Manual of Importing Country Requirements. Micor sets out the known requirements that exporters must meet for products and commodities to be accepted for import into specific overseas countries.
Agricultural levy payers and industry bodies have a chance to give their feedback on draft regulations and rules that are part of modernising the agricultural levies legislation.
