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4 September 2020
All importers and customs brokers who will be required to lodge imported cargo documentation to the department for biosecurity assessment.
A network issue is intermittently preventing some clients from submitting lodgements in the Cargo Online Lodgement System (COLS). Impacted clients are receiving the following error message when entering their FID/Entry number and Broker ID:
4 September 2020
All importers and customs brokers who will be required to lodge imported cargo documentation to the department for biosecurity assessment.
All shipping agents or operators of maritime conveyances who will be required to report pre-arrival information.
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.
4 September 2020
All importers and customs brokers who will be required to lodge imported cargo documentation to the department for biosecurity assessment.
All shipping agents or operators of maritime conveyances who will be required to report pre-arrival information.
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.
Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, July 2020
This report lists food that has failed under the Imported Food Inspection Scheme (IFIS).
We target and monitor food that poses a high or medium risk to public health. We refer 100% of risk food imports until we establish a history of compliance.
3 September 2020
Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including vessel masters, freight forwarders, treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers, customs brokers and principle agents— associated with importing goods that require increased intervention during the 2020-21 BMSB risk season.
In 2019 the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment and its partners marked 30 years of continuous operations under the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy (NAQS). The NAQS initiative commenced in July 1989, initially as a 3-year trial focussed on early detection of incursions of exotic pests, weeds and diseases and helping to manage the biosecurity risks associated with natural and unregulated pathways into remote northern Australia.
2 September 2020
All importers of plants, cats and/or dogs who will be required to use the Post Entry Biosecurity System during this planned outage.
Due to system maintenance, the Post Entry Biosecurity System will be unavailable from 23:00 Friday 04 September to 01:00 Saturday 05 September 2020 (AEST).
Clients are advised to await the completion of this maintenance period before attempting to access this service.
We are helping Australia’s forestry industries recover from the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires through these 4 measures:
On 20 September 2021, the Australian Government announced a new $15 million Construction Softwood Transport Assistance Program.
1 September 2020
Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including Master Consolidators, vessel masters, freight forwarders, treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers, customs brokers and principal agents—associated with shipping or importing goods that require increased intervention during the 2020-21 BMSB risk season.
31 August 2020
Customs brokers and importers who import goods from New Zealand that require phytosanitary and/or sanitary certification.
Effective 31 August 2020, the department has transitioned the current eCert exchange with New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (NZ MPI) to a paperless eCert exchange. This means NZ MPI will no longer issue original paper phytosanitary or sanitary certificates.
This change applies to the following lodgement types:
