Date of issue: 15 September 2022

Date of effect: 28 September 2022

Purpose

This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to notify exporters of honey and apiculture products a planned outage for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry’s (the department) Next Export Documentation (NEXDOC) system.

Research and development corporation

AgriFutures Australia (AgriFutures)

Date of notice

16 September 2022

Effective date for levy returns

This notice applies to honey returns for transactions from 1 January 2023 and applies to the following returns:

• quarterly returns due by 28 April 2023 and onwards
• annual returns due by 28 February 2024 and onwards.

Affected collection product

Honey

Research and development corporation

AgriFutures Australia (AgriFutures)

Date of notice

16 September 2022

Effective date for levy returns

This notice applies to pasture seed returns for transactions from 1 January 2023 and applies to quarterly returns due 28 April 2023 and onwards.

Affected collection product

Pasture seed

Research and development corporation

AgriFutures Australia (AgriFutures)

Date of notice

16 September 2022

Effective date for levy returns

This notice applies to meat chickens returns for transactions from 1 January 2023 and applies to monthly returns due 31 March 2023 and onwards.

Affected collection product

Meat chickens

Research and development corporation

AgriFutures Australia (AgriFutures)

Date of notice

16 September 2022

Effective date for levy returns

This notice applies to buffalo export returns for transactions from 1 January 2023 and applies to monthly returns due by 28 February 2023 and onwards.

Affected collection product

Buffalo export

Research and development corporation

AgriFutures Australia (AgriFutures)

Date of notice

16 September 2022

Effective date for levy returns

This notice applies to deer slaughter returns for transactions from 1 January 2023 and applies to monthly returns due 28 February 2023 and onwards.

Affected collection product

Deer slaughter

We’ve reviewed live sheep exports to, or through, the Middle East during the Northern Hemisphere summer. The review assessed the effectiveness of regulation for exports during the Northern Hemisphere summer (1 May to 31 October).

We introduced temporary restrictions during 1 May to 31 October 2019. This was pending the Regulation Impact Statement (RIS) process. The RIS process reviewed policy options for the live sheep export trade.

Date of issue: 14 September 2022

Date of effect: 28 September 2022

Attention

• Registered dairy exporters, manufacturers, agents, freight forwarders, approved export permit issuers and EDI users.
• Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) - Central and Regional offices.

Purpose

To notify Next Export Documentation (NEXDOC) system users of a planned outage.

Research and development corporation

AgriFutures Australia (AgriFutures)

Date of notice

16 September 2022

Effective date for levy returns

This notice applies to buffalo slaughter returns for transactions from 1 January 2023 and applies to monthly returns due 28 February 2023 and onwards.

Affected collection product

Buffalo slaughter

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