1 June 2021
Who does this notice affect?
All importers and customs brokers who are awaiting outcomes of biosecurity assessments during this planned maintenance period.
All importers and customs brokers who will be required to lodge imported cargo documentation to the department for biosecurity assessment during this maintenance period.
Information
The department will be performing scheduled system maintenance from 23:30 Saturday 05 June to 01:30 Sunday 06 June 2021 (AEST)
Agriculture Import Management Systems (AIMS) entries, Full Import Declarations (FIDs) and Long form SACs will not be processed during this time. They will be queued and processed automatically at the end of the outage period.
COLS will be available during this time, however entries lodged during the above maintenance window will not be retrievable by COLS.
Action
All AIMS messages will be queued and processed automatically at the end of the outage period.
If the Full Import Declaration (FID)/Entry number is not found in COLS, please wait until the outage has concluded before submitting a new lodgment.
The department apologies for any inconveniences caused.