Most of what leaves my cold store for Australia is dairy, so certificate wording is my week.
The first stage of Australia's dairy review closed on 31 August. A permit issued before that date carries the old conditions and the reviewed ones together, good for two years. A permit issued after carries only the reviewed set.
Two things move between them. Country freedom from foot and mouth is no longer read off the world animal health body's recognition: sourcing and manufacturing countries both have to sit on the Australian director's list. That list moves. Greece came off it in March. Separately, the lumpy skin list condition is being dropped for dairy.
My reading is that a certificate written to the old wording answers half the permit. Has anyone been told which column the border reads?
Under German export control practice those two texts behave differently. A binding classification I hold lapses the moment a list change catches the goods. A licence already issued keeps running while the entry it was granted under still stands. I do not know the Australian side. I would ask which of your two sets is in force the day the container lands.
Fruit, not dairy, but the same shape. Both sets are live on the one permit, so landing day does not settle it. A permit carrying two sets is not half of each: you pick one column and answer it whole, and the certificate is what picks. Written to the reviewed set, it is accepted against an older permit too.
The cost is the asking. Get your buyer to put it to their authority in writing before the box loads. Once it is on the water, a replacement certificate is a slow season.
Then I am rewriting the letter. I had been about to have the certificate drawn to the old wording, which my supplier's vet has endorsed all year. Wrong way round, and that wording may not stay on offer once their side signs the new one.
Which leaves the list. It publishes in dated versions, and one reinstatement carried a backdated exclusion window. So I ask which version covered collection and manufacture, not whether they sit on it today.
Ruth, keep the dated version, but do not trust it on its own either. Greece came off in March, yet the department counts its loss of freedom from mid February. A copy printed in late February showed Greece clean for goods it was already counting against.
So I would file two things with the lot: the version in force at manufacture, and a second look at the list the week the certificate is signed. The second look costs a coffee, not a container.
