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7 July 2020
All importers and customs brokers who are awaiting outcomes of biosecurity assessments during this planned outage.
The department will be performing scheduled system maintenance from 23:00 Saturday 11 July to 01:45 Sunday 12 July 2020 (AEST).
Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, May 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.
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.
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, September 2022
Importers should consult the Biosecurity Import Conditions system (BICON) for the full range of import conditions for all goods intended for importation.
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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry July 2025
A completed and endorsed Veterinary Health Certificate must accompany all consignments of canine semen imported to Australia. The department has prepared a veterinary health certificate template, which can be downloaded from the link below, to assist overseas government veterinarians when preparing this certificate.
Date of issue: 6 July 2020
Date of effect: 1 July 2020
Reference Number: MAA2020-09
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Date of issue: 6 July 2020
Date of effect: 1 July 2020
Reference Number: MAA2020-20
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Date of issue: 6 July 2020
Date of effect: 1 July 2020
Reference Number: MAA2020-10
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6 July 2020
All importers and customs brokers who will be required to lodge imported cargo documentation to the department for biosecurity assessment during this planned outage.
The department will be performing scheduled system maintenance from 23:00 Saturday 11 July to 01:45 Sunday 12 July 2020 (AEST).
COLS will be available during this time, however entries lodged during the above maintenance window will not be retrievable by COLS.
6 July 2020
All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions (BICON) system during this planned maintenance period.
Due to scheduled system maintenance, BICON users may experience several intermittent outages of up to 5 minutes between 22:30 and 23:30 Saturday 11 July 2020 (AEST).
Users are advised to frequently save any in-progress permit applications during this maintenance period.
