Australian Quarantine Review Secretariat Australian Quarantine a shared responsibility
International obligations and leadership
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International obligations and leadershipRecommendation 23: The Review Committee recommends that Australia continue to take a lead role in the development of international definitions, standards, rules and procedures related to quarantine, including risk analysis, area freedom and market access arrangements (Section 5.2.3.3). Recommendation 24: The Review Committee recommends that Australia's international position on quarantine-related issues be based on objective scientific principles consistent with Australia's national quarantine goal (Section 5.5.1). Recommendation 25: The Review Committee recommends that greater encouragement and support should be provided by Government to persons with relevant experience in quarantine issues to assume a leadership role internationally (Section 5.6). Recommendation 26: The Review Committee recommends that Australia maintain an international leadership role in relation to ballast water management (Section 5.6). Offshore activitiesRecommendation 27: The Review Committee recommends that Quarantine Australia coordinate the identification of quarantine threats in neighbouring countries and in countries that have significant contact with Australia through trade and tourism (Section 6.1.3). Recommendation 28: The Review Committee recommends that Quarantine Australia assess the need for, coordinate, broker and where necessary participate in cooperative programs in neighbouring countries (and, where appropriate, in countries that have significant contact with Australia through trade and tourism) in: pest and disease monitoring and surveillance; pest and disease control and eradication; preparedness and response against incursions; and relevant education, training and diagnostic services (Section 6.2.5.2). Recommendation 29: The Review Committee recommends that Quarantine Australia collaborate with overseas quarantine authorities in the areas of staff exchange and training, research, technology development, and treatment measures (Section 6.3). Recommendation 30: The Review Committee recommends that Quarantine Australia negotiate with overseas quarantine agencies to continue development of arrangements for offshore preclearance of goods by appropriate export authorities and companies (Section 6.4). Recommendation 31: The Review Committee recommends that Quarantine Australia take a proactive role in selected countries to promote greater awareness of Australian quarantine requirements among their travel authorities, travel agencies and travelling citizens, and among their international trading authorities and companies (Section 6.5). Recommendation 32: The Review Committee recommends that Quarantine Australia ensure that information on Australia's quarantine requirements is more clearly presented to Australian residents before they travel overseas (Section 6.5). Risk analysisRecommendation 33: The Review Committee recommends that Quarantine Australia continue to use and refine scientifically based risk analysis - comprising risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication - to develop its quarantine policies and procedures (Section 7.1.3). Recommendation 34: The Review Committee recommends that Quarantine Australia use a process to ensure that import risk analysis is consultative, scientifically based, politically independent, transparent, consistent, harmonised and subject to appeal on process (Section 7.3). Recommendation 35: The Review Committee recommends that Quarantine Australia improve community and stakeholder understanding of import risk analysis by: developing and circulating a public handbook on its risk analysis process as a matter of urgency; and using print and electronic information media to inform registered stakeholders, other interested parties, and the general public of the receipt of import access requests and progress with the risk analysis of these requests (Section 7.4.1.1). Recommendation 36: The Review Committee recommends that Quarantine Australia routinely consult with relevant registered stakeholders in a partnership approach to agree on what type of risk analysis should be used for each import access request (Section 7.4.3). Recommendation 37: The Review Committee recommends that, for each import access request that consultation with registered stakeholders identifies as meriting detailed risk analysis, Quarantine Australia coordinate and chair a Risk Analysis Panel including members with experience and expertise in quarantine risk analysis plus members with scientific expertise relevant to the import access request under consideration (Section 7.4.5.1). Recommendation 38: The Review Committee recommends that each Risk Analysis Panel: develop a specific timetable with deadlines for each stage of consideration of its import access request, for agreement with relevant registered stakeholders; and prepare an issues paper for relevant registered stakeholders before commencing detailed risk analysis on the import access request referred to it (Section 7.4.5.2). Recommendation 39: The Review Committee recommends that, where necessary, each Risk Analysis Panel appoint and contract expert Working Parties to undertake work required to complete its risk analysis (Section 7.4.5.3). Recommendation 40: The Review Committee recommends that each Risk Analysis Panel assess risks and examine appropriate risk management strategies needed to approve or reject the import access request referred to it (Section 7.4.6). Recommendation 41: The Review Committee recommends that if a Risk Analysis Panel considers that an appropriate risk management strategy can be applied to an import access request, it advise the Department of Primary Industries and Energy, which would be responsible for: determining if approval is likely to have a significant effect on an Australian industry; identifying any structural adjustment measures that might be required; and liaising with other agencies such as the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade concerning any international implications arising from approving the request (Section 7.4.6). Recommendation 42: The Review Committee recommends that: responsibility for the risk analysis decision rest with the Chairperson of the In-House Risk Analysis Team or the Risk Analysis Panel; and the decision reflect the deliberations of the Team or Panel (Section 7.4.6). Recommendation 43: The Review Committee recommends that any appeal against the decision of a Risk Analysis Panel be restricted to consideration of the appropriate discharge of the agreed process and be considered and adjudicated by the Board of Quarantine Australia within 45 days of lodgement with the Board (Section 7.4.7). Recommendation 44: The Review Committee recommends that Quarantine Australia's import risk analysis process and associated decisions on import access requests should be subject to periodic external review (Section 7.4.8). Recommendation 45: The Review Committee recommends that import risk analysis used by Quarantine Australia include increased consideration of the potential environmental effects of proposed introductions of new species, breeds or varieties of animals and plants or their germplasm, including their propensity to become weeds, vertebrate pests or invertebrate pests in Australia (Section 7.6.1.2). Recommendation 46: The Review Committee recommends that Quarantine Australia develop a proposal for a streamlined process for considering imports of agents into secure premises for evaluation of their potential as biological control agents, and submit this for the consideration of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Resource Management (Section 7.6.3). Recommendation 47: The Review Committee recommends that Government provide funds to establish a Key Centre for quarantine-related risk analysis to enhance Australia as a world leader in this field (Section 7.8). Directory: SiteCollectionDocuments SiteCollectionDocuments -> Emerging Transport Technologies SiteCollectionDocuments -> Lesson Plan What are smart goals? 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