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You now have the opportunity to provide feedback on draft legislation that proposes to modernise the agricultural levies legislation.
The draft legislation available on our Have Your Say webpage for your consideration are:
01 May 2023
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry that applications for the export of bananas, capsicum, papaya and sweetcorn to New Zealand for the 2023-24 season are now open.
May 2023
May 2023
1/05/2023
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 2022-23 BMSB risk season.
On 1 May 2023, the 2022-23 BMSB risk season ended.
Australians love their prawns so much, we need to import them from overseas to keep up with demand.
But we don’t want diseases arriving in Australia with those imports.
27/04/2023
Stakeholders in the import of plant-based animal feed and fertilisers – including importers, customs agents, brokers and freight forwarders.
Additional community protection (CP) questions have been recently added to certain tariffs in the Integrated Cargo System (ICS) to ensure goods lodged under these tariffs intended to be used for direct animal feed or fertilisers are referred to the department for biosecurity intervention.
We have completed our review of import conditions for whole egg, egg yolk, egg white powder from approved countries.
3 May 2023
We invite you to comment on the draft review by Monday 3 July 2023.
The draft report is available for review and comment on our Have Your Say website.
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has conducted a policy review of the Australian import conditions for whole egg, egg yolk, and egg white powder.
