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The Plant Innovation Centre (PIC) is a world-class research, development, and extension (RD&E) facility. By providing innovative solutions that detect, identify and manage plant pests, our team helps strengthen Australia’s biosecurity.
The PIC team have significant scientific expertise and experience in areas such as:
21 October 2022
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry that export certification for edible honey and apiculture products to Qatar will be moved to the Next Export Documentation System (NEXDOC) system from 27 October 2022.
Manual certificate applications will no longer be available for edible honey and apiculture products to this market.
All entities operating an approved arrangement must pay the annual charge each financial year.
This includes suspended approved arrangements, and approved arrangements that are revoked (cancelled) within the financial year. No reduction or refund applies to revoked approved arrangements.
Information about the annual charge is included on all notices sent by the Approved Arrangements Program.
The annual charge rate depends on:
Date of issue: 20 October 2022
Date of effect: 26 October 2022
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.
Date of issue: 19 October 2022
Date of effect: Immediate
Reference Number: MAA2022-34
Date of issue: 19 October 2022
Date of effect: 26 October 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.
20 October 2022
Stakeholders associated with the import of live dogs, cats and canine semen to Australian territory, including importers, pet transport agents, and official and government-approved veterinarians
21 October 2022
Stakeholders associated with the import of live dogs to Australian territory, including importers, pet transport agents, and official and government-approved veterinarians
From 1 November 2022, the department will remove the requirement for serological testing for E. canis for live dogs prior to import to Australia.
The department considers cruise vessels to be a high biosecurity risk due to a number of factors, including:
Talk to us if you have an idea for improving our biosecurity system.
If your idea has promise, we will connect you to the right people to take it forward.
We identify and collect ideas for new approaches to improve our biosecurity system.
We work to:
