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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Change to evidence requirements for synthetic material
Effective from 17 January 2024
On 1 February 2024, the following changes will be made to the 'Synthetic material' BICON case:
Consignments of synthetic material will need to provide either:
1. Evidence that the goods are not genetic material (including but not limited to synthet...
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Synthetic material
Permit application processing delays for waste and biological products for use in a laboratory
Effective from 8 December 2023
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) would like to alert importers and stakeholders of processing delays for permit applications to import animal/human/microbial derived products, waste, and environmental samples to be...
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Enzymes
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Proficiency Testing Samples
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Antigens for laboratory use
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Waste
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Soil and articles containing soil
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Human milk and human milk products for human consumption
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Water
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Test kits
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Culture media
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Human fluids and tissues
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Purified antibodies
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Starter cultures (and derivatives)
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Microorganisms and infectious agents (and derivatives)
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Cell lines
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Animal fluids and tissues (excluding viable reproductive material)
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Genetic material (nucleic acids and their derivatives) excluding plants and plant pathogens
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Live animals and their reproductive material for laboratory use
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Laboratory materials
Notification of sheep and goat pox outbreak in Bulgaria and Greece
Effective from 20 November 2023
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has been notified of an outbreak of sheep and goat pox in Bulgaria and Greece in 2023. Sheep and goat embryos and semen from Bulgaria and Greece will not be able to meet the following import conditi...
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Goat semen
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Ovine semen
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Sheep embryos
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Goat embryos
Removal of import permit requirement for dragon fruit from Viet Nam and grapefruit from Egypt
Effective from 1 November 2023
The requirement for an import permit for fresh dragon fruit grown in Viet Nam and fresh grapefruit grown in Egypt, for human consumption, will be removed from 20 November 2023.
From 20 November 2023 importers will no longer need to apply for, or prese...
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Fresh grapefruit or sweetie for human consumption
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Fresh dragon fruit for human consumption
Addition of new animal-based commodities onto the Compliance-Based Intervention Scheme (CBIS)
Effective from 31 October 2023
The department is incorporating new animal-based commodities onto the . This change is scheduled to take effect from 10 November 2023.
The following commodities have been scoped for addition:
1. Tanned hides and skins from all countries
1.1. Elig...
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Prawns
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Animal trophies, articles and handicraft items
Changes to vegetable seed for sowing permit application form, effective 5 October 2023
Effective from 28 September 2023
Who does this notice affect:
This notice is of interest to importers (and their customs brokers) of the following vegetable seeds for sowing: capsicum, carrot, parsley, parsnip, tomato, wild tomato.
What has changed:
The Department of Agriculture,...
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Capsicum spp. (requiring testing) seed for sowing
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Daucus carota seed for sowing
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Wild tomato seed for sowing
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Tomato seed for sowing
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Petroselinum crispum seed for sowing
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Pastinaca sativa seed for sowing
Changes to approved countries for zoo elephants, felids and perissodactyls
Effective from 15 January 2020
The department has determined that Singapore Zoological Gardens (Singapore Zoo) cannot be considered free of evidence of tuberculosis in accordance with Australia’s import requirements for zoo elephants, zoo felids and zoo perissodactyls for the period...
Related Cases:
Elephants for zoological purposes
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Felidae for zoological purposes
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Perissodactyls for zoological purposes