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2022-20: Update to the dairy category code review

Date of issue: 23 June 2022

Date of effect: Immediate

Attention

  • Industry bodies, Dairy Export Consultative Committee
  • Registered dairy exporters, manufacturers, agents, freight forwarders, and automated export permit issuers.
  • Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment – Central and Regional offices

Purpose

To notify dairy stakeholders of updates to the dairy category code review.

Import of live sturgeon for aquaculture

On 21 June 2022, the department released a Notice of Intention to conduct a Biosecurity Import Risk Analysis (BIRA) under the Biosecurity Act 2015 and the Biosecurity Regulation 2016, in relation to the importation of live sturgeon for aquaculture. This commenced a 30-month timeframe to complete the BIRA.

We have published the final BIRA report and completed the BIRA. Development of the import conditions will now commence and is expected to take some time.

103-2022: Webinar registration is now open for Continued Biosecurity Competency (CBC) activities 22-23/01 and 22-23/02

17 June 2022

Who does this notice affect?

Biosecurity industry participants and accredited persons operating under the department’s Class 19.1 non-commodity for containerised cargo clearance (NCCC) and Class 19.2 automatic entry processing for commodities (AEPCOMM) approved arrangements; Continued Biosecurity Competency (CBC) providers and registered training organisations (RTOs).