24 October 2022

Who does this notice affect?

All clients who will be required to lodge inspection requests to the department during this planned outage.

Information

Due to scheduled infrastructure maintenance, the Biosecurity Portal will be unavailable from 16:00 Saturday 29 October to 07:00 Sunday 30 October 2022 (AEDT).

Action

Clients are advised to await the completion of this maintenance period before attempting to access this service.

24 October 2022

Who does this notice affect?

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 shipping agents or operators of maritime conveyances who will be required to report pre-arrival information during this planned maintenance period.

Scientific name: Capripoxvirus

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21 October 2022

Purpose

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.

How much is the annual charge?

The annual charge rate depends on: