20 June 2024

Who does this notice affect?

Accredited persons operating under the department’s approved arrangement class 19.2 automatic entry processing for commodities (AEPCOMM), Continued Biosecurity Competency (CBC) providers and Registered Training Operators (RTO’s).

What has changed?

From 20 June 2024, the scope of the approved arrangement class 19.2 has been expanded to include the following commodities:

20 June 2024

Who does this notice affect?

Stakeholders involved with the import of live ornamental fish, including importers, Approved Arrangement holders and Cargo Terminal Operators.

What has changed?

From 21 October 2024, industry participants will be required to present each bag of live ornamental fish to eye level for biosecurity officers to observe during on-arrival inspection. Industry participants may choose to manually lift bags, or to provide a mechanism so that the bags are lifted and presented to biosecurity officers.

19 June 2024

Who does this notice affect?

Approved arrangements operators, customs brokers, importers, manned depots, and freight forwarders attempting to reset their password through the Biosecurity Portal using the ‘Sign in with your email address to access’ (‘Other User’) login method.

Information

Restored time:

As of: 13:25 Wednesday 19 June 2024 (AEST).

17 June 2024

Who does this notice affect?

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

Information

Due to scheduled infrastructure maintenance, BICON users may experience several intermittent outages from 16:00 to 23:59 Sunday 23 June 2024 (AEST).

Action

Users are advised to frequently save any in-progress permit applications during this planned maintenance period.

17 June 2024

Who does this notice affect?

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.

The Environmental Biosecurity Advisory Group (EBAG) met online on 10 November 2023.

EBAG members were updated on the priority environmental biosecurity work of the Environmental Biosecurity Office in DAFF and work undertaken by the Office of the Threatened Species Commissioner at the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

The Australian Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer Dr Bertie Hennecke briefed the group on developments regarding the red imported fire ant (RIFA) eradication program.

17 June 2024

Purpose

This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise that applications are now open for the accreditation of farms and packhouses, and the registration of treatment facilities, to export summerfruit to protocol markets for the 2024-2025 season.