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25 November 2022
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.
All importers of plants, cats and/or dogs who will be required to use the Post Entry Biosecurity System during this planned outage.
Date of issue: 24 November 2022
Date of effect: Immediate
Reference Number: MAA2022-11
Related: MAA 2021-24 and MAA 2020-15
24 November 2022
All users of the below systems:
The unplanned service disruption affecting the department’s messaging service has been resolved.
The backlog of messages is currently processing and is expected to complete by 21:00 Wednesday 23 November 2022 (AEDT).
23 November 2022
All users of the below systems:
The department’s messaging service is currently experiencing an unplanned service disruption. As a result, ICS is unable to communicate with DAFF systems.
Date of issue: 23 November 2022
Date of effect: Immediate
Reference Number: MAA2022-36
Date of issue: 23 November 2022
Date of effect: 1 January 2023
Reference Number: MAA2022-18
Related: N/A
22 November 2022
This notice is of interest to international vessel masters, shipping agents and importers of timber and timber products.
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) will commence its annual heightened surveillance regime for managing the risks posed by Burnt Pine Longicorn (BPL) beetles (Arhopalus ferus) on vessels departing from New Zealand from 00:01 hours (NZST) at the start of Saturday 19th November 2022.
Within the South East Trawl Fishery, stocks of several fish species have declined below sustainable limits and are not recovering. The South East Trawl Fishery is also known as the Commonwealth Trawl Sector of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery.
To protect fish stocks and halt species decline, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) has lowered the allowable catch for at-risk species and implemented area closures from 1 May 2023.
22 November,2022
All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON) during this planned outage.
Due to scheduled infrastructure maintenance, BICON will be unavailable from 23:00 to 23:20 Thursday 24 November 2022 (AEDT).
Clients are advised to await completion of this maintenance period before attempting to access this service.
21 November 2022
All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON) during this planned maintenance period.
Due to scheduled infrastructure maintenance, BICON users may experience several intermittent outages from 16:00 to 23:59 Sunday 27 November 2022 (AEDT).
Users are advised to frequently save any in-progress permit applications during this maintenance period.
