Update – 13 September 2022
Final IHS
The final import health standard (IHS) for Returned New Zealand animal products was issued 9 September 2022.
Import health standard: Returned New Zealand animal products [PDF, 333 KB]
Risk management proposal: Returned New Zealand animal products [PDF, 168 KB]
Provisional IHS
Provisional Returned New Zealand animal products: IHS [PDF, 349 KB]
Provisional Returned New Zealand animal products: RMP [PDF, 185 KB]
Review of submissions [PDF, 1.1 MB]
Consultation background
From 17 February 2022 to 11 March 2022, the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) sought comments on proposed changes to the Import Health Standard: Returned New Zealand Animal Products.
The amended import health standard (IHS):
- includes an import pathway for New Zealand animal products that are subjected to a tracking and tracing system
- Includes a new provision for returned New Zealand animal germplasm
- has revised documentation requirements
- clarifies inspection requirements.
Full details of the proposed changes are in the consultation documents.
Consultation documents
Draft IHS for Returned New Zealand Animal Products [PDF, 401 KB]
Risk management proposal: Returned New Zealand animal products [PDF, 207 KB]
Steps to finalising the new IHS
After consultation on a draft import health standard, MPI publishes a provisional IHS.
If you made a submission during the consultation, you have 10 working days to notify the Director-General of MPI that you intend to request an independent review. Reviews are limited to whether specific scientific evidence was given sufficient consideration.
If no review is requested within 10 working days, then the provisional IHS is confirmed and the final IHS is issued.
For more information about reviews, refer to Section 24 of the Biosecurity Act 1993 – NZ Legislation
Submissions are public information
Note that all, part, or a summary of your submission may be published on this website. Most often this happens when we issue a document that reviews the submissions received.
People can also ask for copies of submissions under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA). The OIA says we must make the content of submissions available unless we have good reason for withholding it. Those reasons are detailed in sections 6 and 9 of the OIA.
If you think there are grounds to withhold specific information from publication, make this clear in your submission or contact us. Reasons may include that it discloses commercially sensitive or personal information. However, any decision MPI makes to withhold details can be reviewed by the Ombudsman, who may direct us to release it.
Official Information Act 1982 – NZ Legislation
