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308-2025: List of treatment providers update: treatment providers suspended – Stopest (M) Sdn Bhd (AEI: MY0004MB) and Pied-Piper (Far East) Sdn Bhd (AEI: MY0056MB)

8 September 2025

Who does this notice affect?

Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including vessel masters, freight forwarders, offshore treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers, customs brokers, principal agents and master consolidators.

What has changed?

Following identification of critical non-compliance, we have listed Stopest (M) Sdn Bhd (AEI: MY0004MB) and Pied-Piper (Far East) Sdn Bhd (AEI: MY0056MB) as ‘suspended’ on the List of treatment providers.

Biosecurity Advice 2025-P07: Assessment of alternative measures for Cavendish bananas from the Philippines

16 September 2025

We are conducting an assessment of alternative measures for the importation of fresh Cavendish bananas from the Philippines.

The assessment includes a review of the 2008 import risk analysis policy and the Philippines’ request for access for an additional Cavendish cultivar and export province.

304-2025: List of treatment providers update: treatment provider suspended –M/s. Elite Services (AEI: IN0588MB)

4 September 2025

Who does this notice affect?

Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including vessel masters, freight forwarders, offshore treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers, customs brokers, principal agents and master consolidators.

What has changed?

Following identification of critical non-compliance, we have listed M/s. Elite Services (AEI: IN0588MB) as ‘suspended’ on the List of treatment providers.

Biosecurity Advice 2025-P06: Release of the final report for the review of biosecurity import requirements for fresh melon fruit from Japan

The final report recommends that the importation of commercially produced melon fruit (except oriental melon and oriental pickling melon) to Australia from all commercial production areas of Japan be permitted, subject to a range of biosecurity requirements.

The final report takes into account comments received from stakeholders on the draft report.

2025-48: Plant Exports – Outage for department systems using an online payment service

02 September 2025

Purpose

This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to notify industry of a scheduled outage for multiple departmental systems that provide an online payments service.

Summary of changes and key points

The following exports systems will be unavailable from 11:00pm Thursday 4 September 2025 to 3:00am Friday 5 September 2025 (AEST) due to the engagement of a new service provider for online payments: