Date of issue: 4 August 2025

Date of effect: 4 August 2025

Attention: All Stakeholders

Purpose

To advise stakeholders of the upcoming public consultation (‘Have Your Say’) period for amendments to the Export Control Rules 2021 (the Rules) applicable to all three of the tariff rate quota rules.

Key Points

This notice advises of the public consultation (‘Have Your Say’) period for amendments to the Export Control Rules 2021 applicable to all three of the tariff rate quota rules:

28 July 2025

Who does this notice affect?

Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries interested in applying to participate in the department’s Safeguarding Arrangement Scheme — including, Biosecurity Industry Participants, Suppliers, Customs Brokers—associated with importing goods that require increased intervention during the 2025-26 BMSB risk season.

27 July 2025

Who does this notice affect?

All importers and customs brokers who are required to lodge imported cargo documentation to the department for biosecurity assessment.

All clients submitting the below declarations, including those anticipating responses from the department in relation to these declaration types:

27 July 2025

Who does this notice affect?

All importers and customs brokers who will be required to lodge imported cargo documentation to the department for biosecurity assessment.

Information

Start time:

As of: 07:24 Sunday 27 July 2025 (AEST).

The Cargo Online Lodgement System (COLS) is currently experiencing an unplanned service disruption. As a result, clients may experience errors when attempting to submit new lodgements.

Action

This issue is being investigated as a priority and the department will advise once resolved.

27 July 2025

Who does this notice affect?

All importers and customs brokers who will be required to lodge imported cargo documentation to the department for biosecurity assessment.

All shipping agents or operators of maritime conveyances who will be required to report pre-arrival information.

All clients who will be required to make an online payment.

All importers of plants, cats and/or dogs who will be required to use the Post Entry Biosecurity System.

All clients required to use the Next Export Documentation (NEXDOC) system.

26 July 2025

Who does this notice affect?

All importers and customs brokers who will be required to lodge imported cargo documentation to the department for biosecurity assessment during this planned maintenance period.

All shipping agents or operators of maritime conveyances who will be required to report pre-arrival information during this planned maintenance period.

All importers of plants, cats and/or dogs who will be required to use the Post Entry Biosecurity System during this planned maintenance period.

22 July 2025

Who does this notice affect?

All importers and customs brokers who will be required to lodge imported cargo documentation to the department for biosecurity assessment during this planned maintenance period.

All shipping agents or operators of maritime conveyances who will be required to report pre-arrival information during this planned maintenance period.

All importers of plants, cats and/or dogs who will be required to use the Post Entry Biosecurity System during this planned maintenance period.

21 July 2025

Who does this notice affect?

All clients submitting the below declarations:

• Full Import Declaration (FID)
• Long Form Self Assessed Clearance (LFSAC)
• Short Form Self Assessed Clearance (SFSAC)
• Cargo Report Self Assessed Clearance (CRSAC)
• Cargo Report Personal Effects (PE)

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

16 July 2025

Purpose

This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to notify all Plant Exports Management System (PEMS) users, including plant export clients, exporters and authorised officers, of an outage to the PEMS system due to a PEMS production upgrade.

15 July 2025

Purpose

This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to notify all Export Documentation System (EXDOC) users, including plant export clients and exporters, of a planned system outage.