20 April 2021

Who does this notice affect?

Importers of nursery stock (live plants) and approved arrangements, freight forwarders and customs brokers that deal with imported nursery stock.

What is changing?

The department will be changing the nursery stock import permit application category and assessment fees, extending the permit validity period and updating the application form for all nursery stock import permits.

Date of issue: 19 April 2021

Date of effect: Immediate

Attention:

19 April 2021

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 clients who will be required to make an online payment 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.

19 April 2021

Who does this notice affect?

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

Information

To support system maintenance, the Maritime Arrivals Reporting System (MARS) will be unavailable from 23:00 Thursday 22 April to 01:00 Friday 23 April 2021 (AEST).

Action

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

16 April 2021

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.

All clients who will be required to make an online payment.

All importers of plants, cats and/or dogs who will be required to use the Post Entry Biosecurity System.

Information

The urgent scheduled outage to the below systems has concluded:

16 April 2021

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.

All clients who will be required to make an online payment.

All importers of plants, cats and/or dogs who will be required to use the Post Entry Biosecurity System.

15 April 2021

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.

Any clients attempting to make payments or check the status of invoices through the Online Payment Service.

All importers of plants, cats and/or dogs who will be required to use the Post Entry Biosecurity System.

Information

An unplanned outage to the Departments financial services is preventing clients from making payments through the following systems:

Date of issue: 15 April 2021

Date of effect: 17 May 2021

Attention:

• Registered dairy exporters, manufacturers, agents, freight forwarders, approved export permit issuers and EDI users.
• Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment - Central and Regional offices.

Purpose

To notify stakeholders that from Monday 17 May 2021 all China certificates for dairy must be issued and printed via the Next Export Documentation (NEXDOC) system.

Date of issue: 15 April 2021

Date of effect: 17 May 2021

Attention:

15 April 2021

Purpose

This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to notify stakeholders of updates to the Plant Exports Management System (PEMS) to rectify bugs that arose because of the 28 March 2021 release.