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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
Attention:
Date of issue: 6 July 2020
Date of effect: 1 July 2020
Reference Number: MAA2020-20
Attention:
Date of issue: 6 July 2020
Date of effect: 1 July 2020
Reference Number: MAA2020-10
Attention:
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.
3 July 2020
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise plant export registered establishments of amendments made to the Guideline: Audit of plant export registered establishments.
3 July 2020
This notice is of interest to importers of uncooked prawns and associated industry participants and retailers.
From 1 July 2020, all uncooked prawns imported for human consumption must be deveined (removal of the digestive tract that remains along the dorsal ridge of each prawn to at least the last shell segment).
Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment July 2020
These forms must be used by exporters who wish to transfer or voluntary return an Indonesian carrot or potato tariff rate quota entitlement.
Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment July 2020
This form must be used by exporters to vary or cancel a reservation of Indonesian feed grains tariff rate quota.
