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Welcome to BICON

BICON houses the Australian Government's Biosecurity import conditions database for more than 20,000 plants, animals, minerals and biological products. It will help you to determine what import conditions exist and if an import permit is required. Please refer to the Department of Agriculture Importing to Australia page for more information about BICON.

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Search for the commodity you want to import. You can also search for your import by scientific name or tariff code. Refer to the BICON Help page for tips on searching.

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Australia
22 October 2019

Locating an import case using a scientific name is a 3 step process. Use the filter to find available names, select from the list and then click search.

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Import Into: Australia
22 October 2019

You may locate import cases by using at least the first 4 digits of a tariff code. Not entering the full 10 digits may return multiple results.

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22 October 2019

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News

21 October 2019

The department is conducting I.T. infrastructure maintenance from 20:00 to 23:59 Sunday 27 October 2019 (AEDT).

BICON users may experience several intermittent outages during this planned maintenance period.  

 
21 October 2019

Due to scheduled system maintenance, BICON financial services will be unavailable from 23:00 Thursday 24 October to 05:00 Friday 25 October 2019 (AEDT).

Clients are advised to await the completion of this maintenance period before attempting to submit permit applications, or pay for previously submitted permit applications.

 
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