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18 March 2021
Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including treatment providers, vessel masters, freight forwarders, biosecurity industry participants, importers, customs brokers, principal shipping agents, and any other operators in the sea container supply and logistics chain.
18 March 2021
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry that:
Date of issue: 20 March 2021
Date of effect: Immediate
Reference Number: IAN 2021-07
Attention:
Industry bodies, Dairy Export Consultative Committee
Registered export manufacturing establishments
Registered licensed exporters and EDI users
Department of Agriculture and Water Resources—Central and Regional offices
To notify registered export manufacturers, exporters and EDI users of updates to the dairy category code review.
Biosecurity is the management of the risk of pests and diseases entering, emerging, establishing or spreading in Australia and causing harm to animals, plants or human health, the economy, the environment and the community.
16 March 2021
All users of the below systems:
Due to scheduled system maintenance to DAWE messaging channels, there will be messaging delays from 23:30 Saturday 20 March to 04:30 Sunday 21 March 2021 (AEDT). This will impact the following messages:
15 March 2021
The purpose of this notification is to remind stakeholders of upcoming changes that will be introduced for the following restricted apiaceous seed species (and their synonyms) imported for sowing purposes:
15 March 2021
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.
All clients who will be required to make an online payment during this planned maintenance period.
15 March 2021
This notice is of particular interest to importers of retorted, shelf stable, commercially sterile products containing animal based ingredients.
This notice follows on from Industry Advice Notice 04-2021 published on January 13, 2021 and is to notify industry that the changes outlined in that notice have now been implemented.
From 15 March 2021 the following commodities are no longer able to be imported using the standard permit for retorted goods:
12 March 2021
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise that government certificate templates have been updated and the process to obtain a phytosanitary certificate for re-export and manual government certificate templates will change on 28 March 2021 for the commencement of the Export Control Act 2020 (the Act).
Notice issued: 10 March 2021
From 1 April 2021, the research and development (R&D), Plant Health Australia (PHA) and Emergency Plant Pest Response (EPPR) components of the cherries levy and charge will increase, and the marketing component will decrease. The overall levy/charge rate will not change.
Changes to the levy/charge rates are shown in the table below:
