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3 March 2026
All users of the Seasonal Pest (SeaPest) system portal forms.
Due to scheduled system maintenance, SeaPest will experience an outage of up to 5 minutes between 23:15 and 23:30 Thursday 12 March 2026 (AEDT).
Clients are advised to await the completion of this maintenance period before attempting to access this service.
27 February 2026
All vessels preparing for arrival into Australian territory must comply with Australia’s mandatory biosecurity requirements.
Check our Biosecurity Import Conditions system (BICON) for biosecurity import conditions and imported food safety requirements.
All biosecurity import conditions must be met before imported food safety requirements apply.
24 February 2026
Approved arrangement operators, customs brokers, importers, manned depots, and freight forwarders who will be required to book and manage requests for import inspections using the Biosecurity Portal during this scheduled service disruption.
Approved arrangement operators who will be required to view and/or update details of their Approved Arrangement via the Approved Arrangement Management Product (AAMP).
23 February 2026
Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including vessel masters, freight forwarders, offshore treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers, customs brokers, principal agents and master consolidators.
19 February 2026
All biosecurity industry participants (BIPs) currently receiving notifications from the Biosecurity Integrated Information System (BIIS) Approved Arrangements System (AA) via noreply@aff.gov.au must note an important change to the email address.
19 February 2026
Biosecurity industry participants and accredited persons operating under approved arrangement Class 19 who want to access and log in to the industry reporting with an email address/password (and with multi-factor authentication) via the Biosecurity Portal.
18 February 2026
Biosecurity fumigation stakeholders, including overseas government and industry treatment providers (both in Australia and pre-border), shipping, freight, and logistics companies, peak industry bodies and technology developers.
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) has published the report summarising feedback received through the Have Your Say survey on The future of biosecurity fumigation technology discussion paper.
17 February 2026
This notice affects importers of spacecraft and parts, customs brokers, agents and accredited persons operating under approved arrangement class 19.
There are new import conditions in the Biosecurity Import Conditions system (BICON) for spacecraft and parts. This change reflects the growing volume of space-related imports and the increasing number of spacecraft arriving in Australia directly from space.
