Main site content
2 December
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.
Update: This planned maintenance has been rescheduled and an outage will no longer occur on Sunday 04 December 2022 (AEDT).
1 December 2022
Approved arrangements operators, customs brokers, importers, manned depots, and freight forwarders who are required to book and manage requests for import inspections using the Biosecurity Portal.
The unplanned service disruption to the Biosecurity Portal has been resolved. Clients registered through MyGov Digital Identity can now access the portal as normal.
1 December 2022
First point of entry (FPOE) operators, airlines, aircraft operators, importers, brokers and others.
A new determination for Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport commenced on 1 December 2022, Biosecurity (First Point of Entry—Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport) Determination 2022.
Date of issue: 01 December 2022
Date of effect: 14 December 2022
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.
To notify Next Export Documentation (NEXDOC) system users of a planned outage.
1 December 2022
Approved arrangements operators, customs brokers, importers, manned depots, and freight forwarders who are required to book and manage requests for import inspections using the Biosecurity Portal.
The Biosecurity Portal is currently experiencing an unplanned service disruption. As a result, clients registered through MyGov Digital Identity are unable to submit new import inspection requests.
30 November 2022
All clients attempting to submit and/or pay for permit applications using the Department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON).
The unplanned service disruption affecting the Biosecurity Import Conditions System has been partially resolved. Clients can now submit permit applications with payment as normal.
The issue preventing some clients from attaching documents to permit applications has not been resolved. This issue is still under investigation.
30 November 2022
All clients attempting to submit and/or pay for permit applications using the Department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON).
The Biosecurity Import Conditions System is currently experiencing an unplanned service disruption. As a result, some clients are receiving errors when:
30 November 2022
All users of the below systems:
The unplanned service disruption to the Integrated Cargo System (ICS) has been resolved and DAFF systems are now receiving incoming messages from the ICS.
