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News items provide general information about BICON. Typically these will be system notices, information about communication activities or upcoming import condition changes.

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Planned system maintenance

Effective: 11 February 2016 to 13 February 2016

The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources will be performing maintenance of its internal IT systems from8:00pm (AEDT) Friday 12 February to 2:00am (AEDT) Saturday 13 February. BICON will be available during this time.  However,  ...

Planned system maintenance

Effective: 29 January 2016 to 30 January 2016

The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources will be performing maintenance of its internal IT systems from 8pm (AEDT) Friday29 January to 4.30am (AEDT) Saturday 30 January. BICON will be available during this time.  However,  ...

BICON Issue: Invoices and Permits

Effective: 3 December 2015 to 3 December 2015

The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources wishes to advise that the users of the BICON systemmay experience issues when attempting to retrieve invoices, permits or other attachments. Users may also notice a delay in the submission of new perm ...

Revised biosecurity charges

Effective: 1 December 2015 to 5 December 2015

The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources wishes to advise that revised biosecurity charges are now in effect. Further details including cost recovery implementation statements, charging guidelines and fact sheets are available on the departm ...

BICON cases unavailable

Effective: 30 November 2015 to 30 November 2015

There have been a number of reports of BICON cases which are not available when selected from the search results screen. This issue is being investigated urgently and resolution will be provided as soon as possible. In the meantime you may experience ...

Full launch of BICON

Effective: 18 November 2015 to 25 November 2015

On 23 November 2015, the department will commence the third and final stage of BICON's launch, by removing public access to the eLodgement system. From this date you will need to apply for your import permits online via your registered user account i ...

BICON System Maintenance

Effective: 13 November 2015 to 14 November 2015

The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources will be performing maintenance of its internal IT systems from 7.30pm Friday 13 November to 6pm Saturday 14 November (AEDT). BICON will be available for use between 7.30pm Friday 13 November and 9am S ...

BICON Rollout

Effective: 4 November 2015 to 18 November 2015

On 9 November 2015, the department will commence Stage Two of BICON's launch, by removing public access to the ICON database and manual permit application forms. From this date BICON will become the single point of reference for import conditions, an ...

Unplanned system outage

Effective: 30 October 2015 to 30 October 2015

The Department of Agriculture is currently investigating reported issues where clients are not able to submit and pay for permit applications or retrieve invoicesthrough the BICON system. BICON is currently available for use.  However, there i ...

Planned system maintenance

Effective: 29 October 2015 to 1 November 2015

The Department of Agriculture will be performing maintenance of its internal IT systems from 7.30pm Friday30 October to 12pm Sunday 1 November. BICON will be available during this time.  However, there is a possibility that you may experie ...