Khapra beetle measures webpage updates and new requirements for high-risk plant products

Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) has received advice from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (the department) that IAN 153/ 2021 addressing web page updates and new requirements for high-risk plant products
 

• Web page updates - The khapra beetle urgent actions webpage has been restructured to improve readability. An overview of these actions is available via the original webpage, with further detail on each phase now available via the following sub-pages:

  Requirements for high-risk plant products  (Phases 1-3)

  Requirements for other-risk plant products  (Phase 4)

  Requirements for seeds for sowing  (Phase 5)

  Requirements for sea containers (Phase 6)

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• New requirements for high-risk plant products
  As advised in IAN 95-2021, new requirements for high-risk plant products imported via air freight and sea freight are expected to commence in September 2021. Additional information on these requirements has been published on our webpage.

Also please note as for High-risk plant products exported from non khapra beetle target risk countries;

All other countries
High-risk plant products exported from all other countries (i.e., countries that are not a khapra beetle target risk country) will be required to be inspected offshore and accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate.

The phytosanitary certificate must include an additional khapra beetle declaration.

Linkage to khapra beetle requirements for sea containers
The requirements for high-risk plant products that are expected to commence in September 2021 are in addition to the existing khapra beetle requirements for sea containers.

This will mean that if high-risk plant products are exported in an FCL/FCX sea container from a khapra beetle target risk country, both the plant products and the sea container itself will require offshore treatment. Unless using methyl bromide, the sea container must be treated when empty (i.e. before goods are packed into the container).