Date of issue: 21 March 2025
Date of effect: 24 March 2025
Reference Number: MAA 2025-01

21 March 2025

Who does this notice affect?

This notice affects all importers who intend to import dog semen into Australia and officers who assess documentation to support the importation of these animals.

20 March 2025

Who does this notice affect?

All importers and customs brokers who lodge imported cargo eligible under the Highly Compliant Importer Project (HCIP).

Background

The highly compliant importer project (HCIP), implemented in July 2018, is an initiative to reduce intervention for compliant importers and ensure departmental resources are focused on high-risk priorities. The following import industry advice notices have been published in relation to the project:

Date of issue: 20 March 2025

Dates of effect: 7 April 2025

Attention

Exporters of Other Goods (processed foods, ingredients, beverages, vitamins and supplements, cosmetics and personal care products, animal feed (non-meat derived), fertilisers, shells), agents and freight forwarders.

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) - Central and Regional offices. 

18 March 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.

What has changed?

Following identification of critical non-compliance, we have suspended Arda Lashing Survey International Inspection, Port Services, Shipping Agency CO, LTD (AEI: TR4018SB) from AusTreat.

14 March 2025

Who does this notice affect?

Approved arrangements operators, customs brokers, importers, manned depots, and freight forwarders who are required to book and manage requests for inspections via the Biosecurity Portal.

Approved arrangements operators who will be required to view and/or update details of their Approved Arrangement via the Approved Arrangement Management Product (AAMP).

National Management Group Communiqué:

High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) H7N8 in Victoria – 2025

On 8 February 2025, Agriculture Victoria confirmed a new outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H7N8 in northern Victoria. Laboratory testing has confirmed that the HPAI H7N8 virus is genetically related to strains detected in wild birds in Australia, but different from the strains detected and eradicated in Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory in 2024.