8 July 2022

Who does this notice affect?

This notice is of interest to all vessel masters and shipping agents who represent international commercial vessels for the purposes of biosecurity reporting for arrival in Australian territory.

What has changed?

Biosecurity directions and advice for livestock vessels are changing in the Maritime Arrivals Reporting System’s (MARS), with revised Biosecurity Status Document (BSD) conditions.

BSD directions will include requirements for:

07 July 2022

Who does this notice affect?

All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions (BICON) system during this planned maintenance period.

Information

Due to scheduled infrastructure maintenance, BICON will be unavailable from 23:00 Saturday 09 July to 04:00 Sunday 10 July 2022 (AEST).

Action

Users are advised to await the completion of this maintenance period before attempting to access BICON.

7 July 2022

Purpose

This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise that export certification for honey and bee products to additional countries will be transitioned to the Next Export Documentation System (NEXDOC) from 28 July 2022. Manual certification applications will no longer be available for these markets.

Date of issue: 7 July 2022

Date of effect: Immediate

Reference Number: IAN 2022/03

Attention: Organic operators and exporters, organic certifying bodies, industry bodies

7 July 2022

This report lists food that has failed under the Imported Food Inspection Scheme (IFIS).

Data set - Importing Food Inspection Scheme - monthly failing food reports

Date of issue: 05 July 2022

Date of effect: Immediate

Reference Number: MAA2022-05

Date of issue: 5 July 2022

Date of effect: 5 July 2022

Attention

• Registered dairy exporters, manufacturers, agents, freight forwarders, and automated export permit issuers.
• Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Central and Regional offices.

Purpose

To notify dairy stakeholders that you can now remote print your export certification to Qatar.

5 July 2022

Purpose

This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry of the ePhyto virtual workshop which will be hosted by the IPPC ePhyto Industry Advisory Group (IAG). We will be co-presenting at this workshop with the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries.

7 July 2022