Main site content
Date of issue: 20 May 2022
Date of effect: 25 May 2022
To notify exporters of honey and apiculture products exporting to Malaysia of a planned outage for the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment’s (the department) Next Export Documentation (NEXDOC) system.
19 May 2022
This notice applies to airlines, aircraft operators and their contracted services (third party disinsection treatment providers).
The Conveyance Arrivals Modernisation (CAM) Program developed an enhanced Aircraft Disinsection Information (ADI) application introducing:
17 May 2022
This notice is of interest to all vessel owners, operators, masters and shipping agents who represent international commercial vessels for the purposes of Australian biosecurity clearance.
New biofouling management requirements for vessel arrivals begin on 15 June 2022
16 May 2022
This notice is of interest to importers of nut species imported as seed for sowing, and their customs brokers.
The plant pathogenic bacterium Xylella fastidiosa (Xylella) is Australia’s highest National Priority Plant Pest (NPPP).
16 May 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.
Due to scheduled infrastructure maintenance, the following systems will be unavailable from 20:00 Saturday 21 May to 07:00 Sunday 22 May 2022 (AEST).
16 May 2022
All clients reviewing import permit PDF documents issued from the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions (BICON) system.
The issue causing numbered points to display out of sequence in some import permit PDF documents has been resolved.
Numbered points in BICON import permits will display in the correct sequence for import permits issued after Sunday 15 May.
No action required, the issue has been resolved.
16 May 2022
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry that applications are now open for the accreditation of farms and packhouses, and for the registration of treatment facilities, to export mangoes and lychees to protocol markets for the 2022-23 season.
16 May 2022
Biosecurity industry participants and accredited persons operating under the department’s class 19.2 automatic entry processing for commodities (AEPCOMM) approved arrangement.
As of 16 May 2022, the fertiliser AEPCOMM group has been expanded to include the following:
The ADI application has been updated to enhance the functionality of record keeping, with the aim of delivering a more precise record of an aircraft’s Disinsection status, across a stable platform. The user interface of ADI remains largely unchanged.
The key enhancement is found in the “Update an Existing Aircraft” and “Add a New Aircraft” pages.
Under previous settings, it was mandatory for users to enter the date and time of a Pre-Embarkation Disinsection (PED) treatment.
13 May 2022
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry of the in-transit cold treatment (ITCT) certification requirements for export of grapes and citrus to Japan.
Exporters, shipping companies, freight forwarders and plant export Authorised Officers (AOs) must consider the following when exporting ITCT grape and citrus consignments to Japan. In future, this information will no longer be provided in annual IANs. Clients will need to refer to the relevant workplan for ITCT requirements.
