8 May 2023

Who does this notice affect?

This notice is of interest to importers, brokers, and biosecurity industry participants of:

8 May 2023

Who does this notice affect?

Biosecurity industry participants who hold an approved arrangement, importers, customs brokers, freight-forwarders and other stakeholders.

What has changed?

We are updating the approved arrangements section of our website and invite you to share your feedback to help guide its future design. By taking this short survey you will provide us with a greater understanding of your requirements, what works now and what we can do to improve your experience.

To have your say, take our survey now.

8 May 2023

Who does this notice affect?

Approved arrangements operators, customs brokers, importers, manned depots, and freight forwarders wishing to book and manage requests for import inspections using the Biosecurity Portal.

Who is not affected by this notice?

Clients who require:

5 May 2023

Who does this notice affect?

This notice is for all airlines, freight forwarders, pet transport companies, preparing veterinarians, and importers of cats and dogs to Australia from countries other than New Zealand and Norfolk Island.

What has changed?

This advice supersedes the notice 24-2021: Permits to import cats and dogs to Australia and clarifies acceptable behaviour when interacting with the department whether in person, attending departmental offices or via communication methods such as phone, email and/or text.

Publication details

Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry, May 2023.

This document outlines:

• principles of post-mortem inspection and disposition that apply to export-registered abattoirs and wild game, rabbit and ratite processing plants.
• roles and responsibilities of Authorised Officers who perform and/or oversee post mortem inspection on registered establishments.
• principles of conducting post-mortem inspection and making disposition judgments.

Publication details

This document outlines the department's operational processes regarding the use of manual meat descriptions on export certification.

This document relates to the use of manual meat descriptions on export certification for:

• meat and meat products
• poultry and poultry meat products
• rabbit and ratite meat and rabbit and ratite meat products
• wild game meat and wild game meat products.

Publication details

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, May 2023.

This Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) Regulatory Performance Report covers the period 1 October 2022 to 31 December 2022. The report concerns the performance of an ESCAS supply chain in United Arab Emirates.

This report summarises the outcomes of the reviews and regulatory actions taken by the department.

Publication details

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, May 2023.

This Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) Regulatory Performance Report covers the period 1 January 2023 to 31 March 2023. The report concerns the performance of ESCAS supply chains in Indonesia.

This report summarises the outcomes of the reviews and regulatory actions taken by the department.

4 May 2023

Purpose

This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry that the NEXDOC portal has two new functions.

Date of issue: 2 May 2023

Date of effect: 27 April 2023

Attention:

Registered dairy exporters.

Purpose

To notify stakeholders of two new functions now available on the next export documentation (NEXDOC) system portal which allows exporters to: