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The Australian Government is working with our Pacific neighbours to improve trade and biosecurity in the region. We are better together and can achieve more this way.
Together we can:
Here are a few of the ways we are supporting our partners.
To successfully export to Australia, you need to understand why biosecurity maters and what you need to do to meet our biosecurity requirements.
Each year around 2.5 million shipping containers arrive in Australia from all over the world. This puts not only our country but the countries we trade with, at risk of incursions from invasive pests and diseases. Some of these pests and diseases can wipe out entire crops, kill animals, destroy the environment and threaten livelihoods.
Invasive pests and diseases can cause crops to fail and livestock to die. This can destroy peoples’ livelihoods.
Australia has a rigorous biosecurity system. It protects our country, countries in our region and countries we trade with.
To prevent pests and diseases from entering Australia, we:
8 August 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 shipping agents or operators of maritime conveyances who will be required to report pre-arrival information 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 maintenance period.
8 August 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 clients who will be required to make an online payment during this planned outage.
All importers of plants, cats and/or dogs who will be required to use the Post Entry Biosecurity System during this planned maintenance period.
8 August 2022
Biosecurity industry participants (BIPs) and accredited persons operating under the department’s class 19.1 non-commodity for containerised cargo clearance (NCCC) approved arrangement, continued biosecurity competency (CBC) providers and registered training organisations (RTOs).
8 August 2022
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry that applications are now open for the accreditation of farms and packhouses, and the registration of treatment facilities, to export table grapes to protocol markets including New Zealand for the 2022–23 season.
05 August 2022
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise stakeholders that the relocation of all Melbourne based offices into one new office location has been postponed.
This notice affects clients and service providers who interact face-to-face with the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry at its following Melbourne based offices:
Date of issue: 1 August 2022
Date of effect: Immediate
Reference Number: MAA2022-13
2 August 2022
All importers and customs brokers who will be required to lodge inspection requests to the department during this planned outage.
Due to scheduled infrastructure maintenance, the Biosecurity Portal will be unavailable from 22:00 Friday 05 August to 02:00 Saturday 06 August 2022 (AEST).
Clients are advised to await the completion of this maintenance period before attempting to access the Biosecurity Portal.
