31 July 2024

Purpose

This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to notify industry of updates to both paper and electronic phytosanitary certificates.

Summary of changes and key points

From October 2024, our ePhyto solution will be updated. The update will allow for:

• the ePhyto solution to be rolled out to further trading partners, and
• paper certification and ePhytos to be harmonised.

From October 2024 all phytosanitary certificates will include 3 new fields:

31 July 2024

Who does this notice affect?

Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including vessel masters, freight forwarders, Master Consolidators, treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers, customs brokers, and principal agents— associated with importing goods that require increased intervention during the BMSB risk season.

30 July 2024

Who does this notice affect?

All clients submitting the below declarations:

30 July 2024

Who does this notice affect?

All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON) during this planned outage.

Information

To support system maintenance, BICON will be unavailable from 23:00 Saturday 03 August to 03:00 Sunday 04 August 2024 (AEST).

Action

Clients are advised to complete and submit any in-progress import permit applications prior to the commencement of this planned outage period.

The project to include imported food safety requirements in our Biosecurity Import Conditions system (BICON) was completed on 14 June 2025.

Attention

Importers of cheese, ready-to-eat seafoods and ready-to-eat duck, and brokers acting on their behalf.

Purpose

To advise importers that the department will soon commence activities to verify Imported Food Inspection Scheme Importer Declarations.

This report lists food that has recently failed under the Imported Food Inspection Scheme (IFIS).

Data for the fails in this report and previous reports are available from this link - Imported Food Inspection Scheme - monthly failing food reports - Dataset - data.gov.au

29 July 2024

Purpose

This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry that the department has commenced public consultation on options to reform export assurance for non-prescribed goods through a Have Your Say survey.