Member

I now draw the House’s attention to a submission that we received from Friends of the Earth. It shared its concerns about checks being made away from BCPs, the frequency of checks being based on risk, how misdeclaration would be handled, performance monitoring and whether we are acting within the powers in the REUL Act. In our response, we explained that this instrument only provides provision to be made for documentary, identity and physical controls to be undertaken at places other than border control posts or control points, and that we have robust, evidence-based risk modelling that can place SPS into categories based on the inherent risk that the product poses to animal, food, biosecurity and public health.