Transporters carrying fruit and vegetables during a fruit fly outbreak
If you're a transporter carrying restricted fruit and vegetables, check the fruit fly outbreak map to find out if you're moving from a red outbreak area (Corrective Action Zone, or CAZ) or yellow suspension area (Export Assurance Zone, or EAZ), or if your depots are impacted.
Movement certification required to transport restricted fruit and vegetables
Movement Certificates must accompany all consignments containing restricted fruit and vegetables from a fruit fly affected area (Controlled Movement Zone, or CMZ), detailing the requirements the consignor must meet and where the fruit can be consigned to. These certificates may also direct transporters to take specific transport routes.
The consignor moving host fruit and vegetables from the Controlled Movement Zone must make sure they meet all treatments and requirements in the Movement Certificates from PIRSA.
As the transporter of restricted fruit and vegetables, you must make sure that you:
- carry an approved Movement Certificate from PIRSA
- carry certificates to show that treatments have been applied if required
- meet any requirements to travel on specified transport routes.
Meeting secure conditions
For sending into non-sensitive markets, a business may request that the vehicle transporting the restricted fruit and vegetables is audited to meet secure condition requirements.
Transporters can apply for their trailers to be inspected and certified as meeting secure condition requirements.
Even when a transporter has been certified, the consignor must still apply for a Movement Certificate. Secondary inspections of the transport vehicles aren't required in this case.
Offloading, reloading and multiple pickups
The Movement Certificate issued to the consignor may require the transporter to take a specific route, or not stop before entering or exiting a defined area.
If you're collecting restricted fruit and vegetables from the Controlled Movement Zone, you must follow these directions. This may mean you're unable to collect additional consignments, or offload and reload at your depot, before reaching the consignor's destination.
Specific transport requirements
Victoria's Sunraysia region and the wine grape industry have specific requirements for transport.
Transiting through Victoria’s Sunraysia region
Transiting through Victoria’s Sunraysia region
Victoria maintains legislative requirements for restricted fruit and vegetables entering, including transiting, the Sunraysia region.
All host produce entering the Victorian Sunraysia region must be accompanied by either:
- Certification (Plant Health Certificate (“PHC”) or Plant Health Assurance Certificate (“PHAC”)) declaring the host fruit has been treated in accordance with Agriculture Victoria’s import requirements; or
- Accompanied with a permit issued by an Agriculture Victoria officer allowing untreated host fruit to transit the area.
Applications for a permit to transit the Victorian Sunraysia region must be made with Agriculture Victoria.
Agriculture Victoria Irymple office
Phone: 03 5051 4500
Email: market.access@agriculture.vic.gov.au