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IAN 2025-14: Dairy: 2025-26 Cost Recovery Implementation Statement Publication

Date of issue: 1 July 2025

Date of effect: 1 July 2025

Attention: All Stakeholders

Purpose

This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise that the 2025-26 Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS), will be published on the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) website (www.agriculture.gov.au) in July 2025.

209-2025: Scheduled Service Disruption: Friday 04 July 2025 – AAMP, BCST, Biosecurity Portal, EVE

30 June 2025

Who does this notice affect?

Approved arrangements 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 planned outage.

Approved arrangements operators who will be required to view and/or update details of their Approved Arrangement via the Approve Arrangement Management Product (AAMP).

205-2025: Services Restored: Friday 27 June 2025 – BICON website

27 June 2025

Who does this notice affect?

All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON) website.

Information

Restored time:

As of: 15:00 Friday 27 June 2025 (AEST).

Detail:

The unplanned service disruption to the BICON website has been resolved.

Clients should not experience any further service degradation to the BICON website as a result of this issue and now access all features and services, including making payments on BICON, as usual.

203-2025: Maritime and Aircraft Reporting System (MARS) commercial vessel Pre-Arrival Report (PAR) and reporting of disembarking crew

27 June 2025

Who does this notice affect?

All vessel owners, operators, masters and shipping agents who represent international commercial vessels, including cruise vessels preparing for arrival into Australian territory.

What has changed?

In December 2023, an Import Industry Advice Notice was published regarding changes to reporting disembarking crew from commercial vessels, including cruise vessels.

This information is re-published to clarify Australian biosecurity reporting requirements.

202-2025: Changes to biosecurity and imported foods regulatory charges

27 June 2025

Who does this notice affect?

Stakeholders including importers, customs brokers, freight forwarders and biosecurity industry participants (approved arrangement and compliance agreement holders) vessel masters and shipping agents.

What has changed?

In 2025, the department will apply indexation to biosecurity and imported food regulatory charges.

All legislated regulatory charges that are subject to an indexation provision will increase by 2.4% on 1 July 2025.