Alerts & Changes
Alerts and Changes provide information about notices or changes to import conditions. You can keep informed with these notices by following individual import cases.
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Addition of species to the ‘Plant species that are weeds’ BICON case
Effective from 4 July 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has completed a Weed Risk Assessment for the species Pinus edulis and has determined this species poses an unacceptable weed risk to Australia and is therefore not permitted entry into Australian te...
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Plant species that are weeds
Changes to the BICON case for Dairy
Effective from 3 July 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has made changes to the BICON case Dairy, in the pathway for Cheese and butter.
• The application form for butter and cheese from department approved foot and mouth disease (FMD) free countries (ex...
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Dairy
Notification of revised plant name synonyms for Brassica rapa seeds
Effective from 29 June 2024
The department has reviewed the existing list of plant name synonyms for the species Brassica rapa within the mustard family (common names: Turnip, field mustard, bok-choy).
Synonyms re-mapped:
The review has determined that the plant names listed b...
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Brassicaceous seed for sprouting or micro-green production
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Regulated vegetable crop seeds for human consumption
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Permitted seed for sowing
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Raw seed for human consumption
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Brassicaceous seed for sowing requiring treatment
Changes to the BICON case for Unretorted meat
Effective from 28 June 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has made changes to import conditions for fresh (frozen or chilled) beef from Japan.
• The appendix in the standard permit that listed approved establishments in Japan has been removed from the pe...
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Unretorted meat
New requirement for ISTA certification in relation to sampling 25,000kg seed lots of poaceae seeds
Effective from 26 June 2024
Who does this notice affect?
Importers and custom brokers of Poaceae seeds for sowing that have undergone purity testing pre-export.
What does this change relate to?
In many cases, seeds for sowing imported to Australia require mandatory purity tes...
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Lolium spp. seed for sowing
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Dactylis spp. seed for sowing
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Permitted seed for sowing
Import conditions for fresh tomatoes from New Zealand have been updated
Effective from 21 June 2024
The department has updated import conditions on BICON to allow trade in fresh tomatoes from New Zealand for human consumption to recommence.
The changes made to import conditions for fresh New Zealand tomatoes are as follows:
1. Fresh loose tomatoes ...
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Fresh Solanaceous fruit for human consumption
Importer declaration now permitted for Test kits testing for human conditions and listed on the ARTG
Effective from 21 June 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has updated the import conditions for Test kits testing for human conditions and listed on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG). Importers may now provide evidence that imported test ...
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Test kits
Approved arrangement class 19.2 Automatic Entry Processing for commodities (AEPCOMM) expansion
Effective from 20 June 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has expanded the scope for the approved arrangement class 19.2 AEPCOMM.
Commodities included in the expansion:
• Caravans subject to inspection
• New tyres subject to inspection, arriving as FCL...
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Carpets, clothes, bags and rags
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Prefabricated office, accommodation units and caravans
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Imported sea-going vessels
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Tyres
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Bee products
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Dairy
Changes to the BICON case for cooked items
Effective from 15 June 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has made a change to the BICON case Cooked items (biscuits, breads, pastries, cakes), mooncakes, egg waffles and uncooked cheesecakes. These changes include:
• Additional advice on which import sce...
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Cooked items (biscuits, breads, pastries, cakes), mooncakes, egg waffles and uncooked cheesecakes
Changes to the Insects and insect products for human consumption BICON case
Effective from 14 June 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry changed the name of the BICON case 'Insects and insect products for human consumption' to 'Insect and arachnid products for human consumption'.
Who does this notice affect:
Importers of insects an...
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Insect and arachnid products for human consumption