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Draft Import Health Standard for Personal Consignments of Animal Products

Updates

19 December 2019

The final import health standard (IHS) is now issued.

Final documents

Submissions

2 October 2019

Provisional IHS

Consultation has closed and a provisional IHS was issued 2 October 2019. Authorised people have until 16 October 2019 to request an independent review under section 24 of the Biosecurity Act 1993.

Provisional IHS [PDF, 866 KB]

Risk Management Proposal

RMP - Consignment of animal products [PDF, 420 KB]

Submissions

A summary of the submissions received for this consultation is available [PDF, 1 MB]

Consultation background

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) sought feedback on a proposed import health standard (IHS).  The IHS was drafted to contain existing and new import requirements for personal consignments of animal products.

Full details about the proposed IHS for Personal Consignments of Animal Products are in the consultation documents. 

Consultation closed at 14 December 2018.

Consultation documents

Submissions are public information

Note, that any submission you make becomes public information. People can ask for copies of submissions under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA). The OIA says we have to make submissions available unless we have a good reason for withholding it.  That is explained in sections 6 and 9 of the OIA.

Tell us if you think there are grounds to withhold specific information in your submission. Reasons might include that it's commercially sensitive or it's personal information. However, any decision MPI makes to withhold information can be reviewed by the Ombudsman, who may tell us to release it.

MPI may post all or parts of any written submission on its website. Unless clearly stated otherwise in your submission, MPI will consider that you have consented to its publication.

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