Australia import requirement changes as o 02 February 2014
Requirement list
Old requirements
New requirements
Post-entry Quarantine
period
Between 30 and 120 days
Minimum 10 days
Rabies Neutralising
Antibody Titre Test
(RNATT)
Blood sample taken between 60 days
and 12 months prior to export
Blood sample taken between 180 days and 24
months prior to export
Rabies vaccination
Administered within 1 year prior to
export
Valid at time of RNAT test and at time of export
(varies according to vaccine)
Residency
Approved category
listing
Non-approved
countries
Category 1: 90 day residency
Category 1 & 3: No residency requirement
Category 2, 3, 4 & 5: 6 month residency Category 2: Only visited rabies free countries in
the 6 months prior to export, or rabies
preparation is required before visit
5 category system for approved
countries
3 category system for approved countries (former
category 4 & 5, now category 3; former category
2 & 3, now category 2; former category 1
retained as category 1)
Must be resident in an approved country Must be exported from an approved country and
for 6 months
meet all the import conditions from that country
Brucellosis
Dogs: Blood sample taken within 30
days prior to export
Breeding dogs: Blood sample taken within 45
days prior to export
Desexed dogs: Evidence of desexing
Ehrlichia
Dogs: Blood sample taken within 30
days prior to export; external parasite
treatment to commence on day of
sampling
Dogs: External parasite treatment to commence
at least 21 days prior to blood sampling; blood
sample taken within 21 days prior to export
Leptospirosis
Dogs: Blood sample taken within 30
days prior to export
Dogs: Blood sample taken within 45 days prior
to export OR vaccination administered between
12 months and 14 days prior to export
Leishmaniosis
Dogs: Blood sample taken within 30
days prior to export
Dogs: Blood sample taken within 45 days prior
to export
External parasite
treatment
Dogs: Treated at time of blood
Dogs: Treated at least 21 days before blood
sampling for Ehrlichia; maintained until sampling for Ehrlichia and maintained until day
the date of export and repeated within 4
of export
days prior to export
Cats: Treated at least 21 days before export and
Cats: Treated within 4 days prior to
maintained until day of export
export
Internal parasite
treatment
One treatment within 4 days prior to
export
Two treatments given within 45 days prior to
export, at least 14 days apart, with the final
treatment given 5 days prior to export.
Nipah virus
Blood sample taken within 45 days
prior to export.
No test required
Final examination
Within 4 days prior to export
Within 5 days prior to export
Export Certification
Health certificate required the approved The health certificate has been collapsed into a
veterinarian to sign “Health Certificate single two page document that is required to be
A” and the Official Government
signed by the Official Government Veterinarian.
Veterinarian to sign “Health Certificate
B”
Seals on crates
Seals required to be applied to all crates
prior to export
Seals are not required on crates of animals that
have been rabies blood tested
Pre-export quarantine
(South Africa only)
Dogs and cats required to complete
quarantine in their originating country
as well as Australia
Pre-export quarantine is not required