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Additional seed species that will no longer require an import permit

Effective from 6 June 2018

Additional seed species that will no longer require an import permit

Who does this notice affect?

Importers of seed for sowing, customs brokers and regional officers.

What is changing?

The following species of seeds will not require an import permit if importers can meet the conditions published in the BICON case Permitted seed for sowing:

Alluaudia ascendens	Alluaudiopsis marnieriana	Alsine circassica
Alsodeia bengalensis	Alsodeia wallichiana	Alternanthera reineckii
Angelica hultenii	Anthosachne multiflora	Arenaria juniperina
Asplenium listeri	Billbergia nutans var. schimperiana	Bouteloua dactyloides
Celmisia petriei	Cistanthe umbellata	Clematis dubia
Daphne endlicheriana	Didierea ascendens	Didierea madagascariensis
Didierea mirabilis	Echinodorus barthii	Echinodorus 'Rubin'
Elatostema montanum	Epilobium parviflorum	Glossostigma elatinoides
Gymnocalycium spegazzinii	Hablitzia tamnoides	Haemanthus dasyphyllus
Heliotropium europaeum	Hydrocotyle tripartita	Lachenalia calcicola
Lesquerella arctica	Lesquerella condensata	Lesquerella kingii
Lesquerella purshii	Ligusticum hultenii	Ligusticum lucidum
Ligusticum officinale	Lilium apertum	Lilium bosniacum
Lilium brevistylum	Lilium farreri	Lilium habaense
Lilium meleagrinum	Lilium pardanthinum	Lilium pensylvanicum
Lilium pinifolium	Lilium saccatum	Lilium saluenense
Lilium synapticum	Lilium wenshanense	Massonia bolusiae
Minuartia austriaca	Massonia tenella	Melicytus latifolius
Minuartia pseudosaxifraga	Minuartia caucasica	Minuartia circassica
Minuartia juniperina	Minuartia sedoides	Mitrophyllum cuspidatum
Mitrophyllum grande	Nepenthes kitanglad	Nepenthes klossii
Nepenthes kurata	Nepenthes mapuluensis	Nepenthes micramphora
Nepenthes mollis	Nepenthes paniculata	Nepenthes papuana
Nepenthes pitopangii	Nepenthes ramos	Nepenthes rigidifolia
Nepenthes saranganiensis	Nomocharis georgei	Nomocharis oxypetala
Nomocharis oxypetala var. insigne	Paeonia abchasica	Paeonia ludlowii
Paeonia tomentosa	Pilea peperomioides	Pneumatopteris truncata
Pseudohydrosme gabunensis	Rinorea bengalensis	Rinorea glandulosa
Rinorea wallichiana	Rotala rotundifolia 'Colorata'	Saruma henryi
Spiloxene serrata	Spraguea umbellata	Ungeria floribunda
Waldheimia stoliczkae

No other changes have been made to the import conditions.

Background

The Biosecurity (Prohibited and Conditionally Non-Prohibited Goods) Determination 2016 is currently being amended. As a result, certain commodities will no longer require an import permit when the specified alternative conditions are met. Due to delays in implementing changes to the Determination, the date when changes will take effect is to be advised. Please continue to monitor Alerts for further information.

Further information

For additional information please see the biosecurity legislation page on the department’s web site, email Plant Import Operations Branch at imports@agriculture.gov.au or phone 1800 900 090.

This Alert applies to the following Cases:

Permitted seed for sowing