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217-2023: Changes to health certification for cats and dogs exported from New Zealand to Australia

17 October 2023

Who does this notice affect?

This notice affects all importers and pet transport agents who intend to import cats and dogs to, or tranship through, Australia from New Zealand.

What has changed?

As of the 1st of November 2023, there will be two versions of health certificates which may be issued for animals exported from New Zealand to Australia:

216-2023: Scheduled Outage: Wednesday 18 October 2023 – DAFF Messaging

16 October 2023

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)

Information

Due to infrastructure maintenance, there will be delays to DAFF messaging from 01:00 to 04:00 Wednesday 18 October 2023 (AEDT).

215-2023: Scheduled Outage: Friday 20 October to Saturday 21 October 2023 - COLS, MARS, OPS, PEBS

16 October 2023

Who does this notice affect?

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.

All shipping agents or operators of maritime conveyances who will be required to report pre-arrival information during this planned maintenance period.

All clients who will be required to make an online payment during this planned maintenance period.

2023-62: Plant 2023-62: Export Operations – Export systems expected maintenance outages

13 October 2023

Purpose

This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to notify all Plant Export Management System (PEMS) users, including plant export clients and exporters of expected system maintenance and associated outages.

Summary of changes and key points

PEMS will be undergoing scheduled maintenance and will be unavailable:

IAN 2023-41: NEXDOC –planned outages

Date of issue: 11 October 2023

Date of effect: 14 – 15 October, 18 October, 20 – 21 October and 25 October 2023.

Attention:

Registered dairy exporters, manufacturers, agents, freight forwarders and approved export permit issuers.

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

Purpose

To notify Next Export Documentation (NEXDOC) system users of planned outages in October.