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3 April 2020
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry of the business continuity arrangements for plant export certificates due to the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date of issue: 6 April 2020
Date of effect: 6 April 2020
Reference Number: MAA2020-09
Attention:
3 April 2020
Stakeholders associated with the biosecurity inspection of sea freight containers imported into Australia—including Shipping Lines, Vessel Agents, customs brokers, Stevedores, wharf/terminal operators, Biosecurity Industry Participants, and importers.
Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, February 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 test 100% of risk food imports until we establish a history of compliance.
3 April 2020
Importers of horticultural fresh produce, cut flowers, plants and other plant based commodities.
This temporary change is relevant to the use of original paper phytosanitary certificates (PCs). It does not apply to countries that already provide original PCs in electronic format, for example, ePhytos or eCerts.
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the movement of airfreight and courier mail in multiple countries.
2 April 2020
The following information is relevant to Biosecurity industry participants and accredited persons under the Class 19.1 Non commodity for containerised cargo clearance (NCCC) and Class 19.2 Automatic entry processing for commodities (AEPCOMM) approved arrangements. This information is also relevant to industry organisations that deliver Continued biosecurity competency (CBC).
The purpose of Continued Biosecurity Competency (CBC) is to provide accredited persons with regular professional development activities, relevant to the approved arrangement class 19. We develop these activities in consultation with industry.
CBC activity topics may include:
A central point of contact for agriculture, fisheries, forestry food and fibre stakeholders. The team works with other Commonwealth agencies and state governments to ensure industry perspectives inform decisions.
Third parties where the department undertakes regulatory work on premise
