Impacts of market access actions

Know the potential impacts of your market access actions. Australia is a party to the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) and therefore has to meet its international obligations.

This is a global forum relating to plant health and protection. Member countries work together to control and prevent the spread of plant pests and diseases by trade. As well as plants and plant products, it includes anything that can spread plant pests (and diseases) such as soil, shipping containers, equipment and packaging as well as plant products. The IPPC develops standards that member countries use in establishing their measures to protect their cultivated and native plants and plant communities. For further information contact ippc.contactpoint@daff.gov.au.

Actions taken by Australia's plant industries to access new or maintain existing domestic and international export markets can impact on trade.

In particular, they can impact on the domestic trading arrangements in place for other plant industries or sectors of the same industry within Australia.

Actions to take

Before taking any market access actions, you can:

• Research the international export and import conditions for plants and plant products that relate to your industry by using the PHYTO Database and ICON Database respectively.
• Research the interstate export conditions for movement of plants and plant products that relate to your industry by using the web pages listed under Contact Details.
• Seek advice from the Domestic Quarantine and Market Access Working Group by using one of the ways to engage the group.