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Policies and Procedures

Biosecurity legislation

These policies and procedures have been developed by DPI to underpin the Biosecurity Act 2015 and are effective from 1 July 2017.

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Policies

Title	Category	Details
Accreditation of Biosecurity Certifiers	Compliance	PDF, 164.1 KB
Appointment of authorised analysts	Compliance	PDF, 181.2 KB
Appointment of Biosecurity Auditor Policy	Compliance	PDF, 293.1 KB
Aquatic biosecurity pests and diseases	Aquatic pests and diseases	PDF, 122.9 KB
Chemically affected food-producing animals, animal food commodities and stock food	Animal food	PDF, 208.0 KB
Collection, use and disclosure of information	General	PDF, 108.3 KB
Emergency powers	Compliance	PDF, 164.1 KB
Endemic diseases of animals	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 253.8 KB
Fertilisers, liming materials and trace elements	Chemicals in food animals and animal products	PDF, 217.2 KB
Livestock Traceability	Animal food	PDF, 87.6 KB
Management of animal biosecurity in NSW	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 201.1 KB
Management of non-indigenous animals - Prohibited registrable dealings	Invasive species	PDF, 290.6 KB
Managing notifiable and established plant pests and diseases	Plant pests and diseases	PDF, 66.6 KB
NSW - Emergency Plant Pest Response Deed (EPPRD) obligations	Plant pests and diseases	PDF, 166.8 KB
Point of Care Tests for Prohibited Matter	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 138.3 KB
Prohibited matter - pests and diseases of animals	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 242.1 KB
Surveillance for diseases of animals and aquatic pests	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 240.3 KB
Triaging plant pests and diseases	Plant pests and diseases	PDF, 133.1 KB
Weed management	Weeds	PDF, 238.5 KB
Complaint handling and investigations	Compliance	PDF, 476.5 KB
Biosecurity Audit Frequency	Compliance	PDF, 340.5 KB

Procedures

Title	Category	Details
Accreditation of biosecurity certifiers	Compliance	PDF, 139.6 KB
Approval of an accreditation authority procedure	Compliance	PDF, 266.3 KB
Anthrax management	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 230.3 KB
Aquatic fieldwork hygiene	Aquatic pests and diseases	PDF, 268.3 KB
Aquatic pests and diseases - responding to reports	Aquatic pests and diseases	PDF, 243.8 KB
Australian bat lyssavirus	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 270.6 KB
Authorised analyst	Compliance	PDF, 254.3 KB
Biosecurity audits	Compliance	PDF, 249.9 KB
Biosecurity certificates	Compliance	PDF, 352.1 KB
Biosecurity Compensation Procedure	Compliance	PDF, 379.3 KB
Biosecurity directions	Compliance	PDF, 483.9 KB
Biosecurity permits	Compliance	PDF, 277.7 KB
Biosecurity registrations	Compliance	PDF, 230.1 KB
Biosecurity undertaking	Compliance	PDF, 296.9 KB
Biosecurity – Management of Japanese encephalitis	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 177.2 KB
Bovine Cysticercosis	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 410.4 KB
Brucella suis in dogs	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 224.3 KB
Cattle abattoirs and knackeries	NLIS	PDF, 501.4 KB
Cattle tick	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 470.8 KB
Chemical trace back investigation	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 595.5 KB
Collection, use and disclosure of information	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 352.8 KB
Destruction, sale and disposal of things under the Biosecurity Act 2015	Compliance	PDF, 311.9 KB
Emergency powers	Compliance	PDF, 405.1 KB
Fees and charges	Compliance	PDF, 102.7 KB
Fertiliser, liming materials and trace elements	Chemicals in food animals and animal products	PDF, 140.7 KB
Formal weed inspections	Weeds	PDF, 262.1 KB
Freshwater Fish Incursion Response Procedure	Aquatic pests and diseases	PDF, 170.8 KB
Hendra virus investigation and management	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 493.2 KB
Highly pathogenic avian influenza	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 214.2 KB
Livestock movements in emergencies – NLIS and General Biosecurity Duty	NLIS	PDF, 178.4 KB
Lead affected food producing animals in NSW	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 450.8 KB
Management of Non-Indigenous Animal Incursion	Invasive species	PDF, 734.7 KB
Management of Priority Pests Under the Biosecurity Act 2015	Invasive species	PDF, 192.4 KB
Managing significant endemic diseases of animals	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 397.8 KB
National Organochlorine Residue Management Program	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 164.5 KB
NLIS - Cattle	NLIS	PDF, 347.3 KB
NLIS - Compliance procedures for property identification codes	NLIS	PDF, 240.6 KB
NLIS - Compliance Monitoring	Animal food	PDF, 130.3 KB
NLIS - Managing statuses, errors and data transfers on the NLIS database	NLIS	PDF, 878.8 KB
NLIS - Permanent identifiers for pigs (special circumstances)	NLIS	PDF, 223.3 KB
NLIS - Pigs	NLIS	PDF, 275.9 KB
NLIS - Procedures for assigning identification codes and for managing and accessing registers	NLIS	PDF, 590.4 KB
NLIS - Sheep and goats	NLIS	PDF, 358.9 KB
NLIS - Supply of approved identifiers	NLIS	PDF, 218.5 KB
Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome incursion response	Aquatic pests and diseases	PDF, 176.3 KB
Parthenium weed carrier inspection	Weeds	PDF, 378.4 KB
Pests and diseases of animals – investigation and alert phase of an emergency response	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 483.7 KB
Porcine brucellosis in domestic pigs	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 1005.2 KB
Processing permit applications and renewal applications for prohibited dealings	Invasive species	PDF, 303.0 KB
Prohibited pig feed	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 1.8 MB
Reporting notifiable pests and diseases of animals and biosecurity events	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 303.0 KB
Reporting plant pests and diseases	Plant pests and diseases	PDF, 216.2 KB
Responding to carp fishing and control enquiries from external stakeholders	Aquatic pests and diseases	PDF, 209.4 KB
Salmonella Enteritidis in the commercial layer and egg industry	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 1.4 MB
Seizure of Things under the Biosecurity Act 2015	Compliance	PDF, 278.1 KB
Stock foods reporting	Animal food	PDF, 200.7 KB
Tick fever	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 234.5 KB
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy freedom assurance program	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 243.1 KB
Procedure - virulent footrot in sheep and goats	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 257.0 KB
Wildlife biosecurity co-management of pests and diseases of wildlife	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 389.4 KB
Use of PoCT for prohibited matter	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 144.5 KB
Validation of PoCT for prohibited matter	Animal pests and diseases	PDF, 389.6 KB