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Cost recovery export arrangement financial results 2023-24 reports outline the financial performance for 7 agricultural export arrangements. Each report is complimentary to the Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS).
04 March 2025
All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON) website.
Start time:
As of: 09:30 Tuesday 04 March 2025 (AEDT).
The department’s BICON website is currently experiencing an unplanned service disruption. As a result, users may experience service degradation (e.g. slowness) and/or an inability to load BICON webpages.
3 March 2025
Importers and customs brokers associated with importing laboratory microorganisms and infectious agents under a standard permit, including those who currently hold a standard permit to import microbes or related material.
03 March 2025
All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON) – external website.
The BICON external website is currently experiencing an unplanned service disruption. As a result, users may experience service degradation (e.g. slowness) and/or an inability to load BICON webpages.
This issue is under urgent investigation and will advise once services have been restored. The department apologises for any inconvenience caused.
Indian officials visited Australia for the sixth meeting of the India-Australia Joint Working Group (JWG) on Cooperation in Agriculture on 28 February 2025.
The Australian Government is committed to supporting Australia’s forest industries. The case studies featured on this page tell the stories of recipients of our grant programs, highlighting their projects that will deliver Australia’s future forest products.
The Accelerate Adoption of Wood Processing Innovation Program awarded $100.72 million in grant funding to 33 grantees across Australia. The grant funding aims to enhance the forestry sectors’ ability to supply more of Australia’s wood demands into the future.
28 February 2025
All importers and customs brokers who will be required to lodge imported cargo documentation to the department for biosecurity assessment.
The unplanned service disruption to the department’s Cargo Online Lodgement System (COLS) has been resolved.
Detail: Between 07:55 and 10:50 Friday 28 February 2025 (AEDT) there was an unplanned service disruption to COLS. As a result, some users were unable to submit new lodgements of imported cargo documentation via COLS.
