General and Transitional Facility Standards

For facilities to gain and maintain approval they must meet the relevant facility standards.

General Standards

CodeTitleDate Issued
MPI-STD-TFGEN Standard for General Transitional Facilities for Uncleared Goods
 26 March 2013
MPI-STD-TFGEN -guidance Link to PDF document (1150 KB) Guidance document for the Standard for General Transitional Facilities for Uncleared Goods March 2013
MPI-PoFA-ALL Link to PDF document (2454 KB) Standard for Places of First Arrival 3 Dec 2012
PoFA-ALL-GD Link to PDF document (586 KB) Guidance document for the Standard for Places of First Arrival July 2011
Treatment Suppliers Programme Link to PDF document (313 KB) Requirements for Suppliers of Official Treatments 1 Jun 2006
BNZ-STD-ABTRT Approved Biosecurity Treatments for Risk Goods Directed for Treatment 12 July 2012
BMG-STD-SCADT Requirements for the Audit of Sea Containers Aug 2008
BMG-STD-PESTI Requirements for the Identification and Reporting of Organisms Intercepted at the Border or Within Transitional Facilities Feb 2001

Animals and Animal Products

Below is a list of standards relating to all aspects of the approval and operation of facilities for the containment or transition of animals and animal products, including new organisms.

CodeTitleDate Issued
  Appointing Supervisors of Animal Quarantine and Containment December 2009
Avian

CodeTitleDate Issued
154.02.05 Standard for Avian Transitional Facilities 23 Mar 2010
Animal

CodeTitleDate Issued
catdog.tf Standard for Cat and Dog Transitional Facilities 16 January 2013
154.02.13 Low Security Farm Animal Transitional Facilities May 2008
154.02.03 Non-compliant Dog and Cat Transitional Facilities 2 April 2002
154.01.04 Escort of Animal Shipments into New Zealand 23 Aug 2001
154.03.06 Containment Standard for Field Testing of Farm Animals 26 Jan 1999
154.02.02 Sheep and Goat Transitional Facilities 18 Aug 2000
154.03.01 Supervision of Containment Facilities 1 Feb 2005
154.03.02 Facilities for Microorganisms and Cell Cultures: 2007a 5 Sep 2007
154.03.03 Containment Facilities for Vertebrate Laboratory Animals 31 Oct 2002
154.02.08 Transitional and Containment Facilities for Invertebrates 31 Oct 2002
154.02.19 Transitional Facilities for CEM testing of Mares 3 Oct 2002
154.03.04 Containment Facilities for Zoo Animals 23 Jun 2003
Aquatic

CodeTitleDate Issued
154.02.06 Transitional Facilities for Ornamental Fish and Marine Invertebrates 20 Apr 2011
Animal Products and Others

CodeTitleDate Issued
154.02.16 Transitional Facilities for Processing Imported Salmonids 24 Mar 1998
154.02.17 Transitional Facilities for Biological Products 27 Apr 1998

Plants and Plant Products

Below is a list of standards relating to all aspects of the approval and operation of facilities for the containment or transition of plants and plant products, including new organisms.

You can also see a list of already registered quarantine facilities for plant propagating material.

CodeCommodityDate Issued
PBC-NZ-TRA-PQCON Specification for the Registration of a Plant Quarantine or Containment Facility, and Operator 12 Nov 1999
PIT-OS-TRA-ACPQF Accreditation of Offshore Plant Quarantine Facilities and Operators 8 Oct 2001
154-03-01 Supervision of Containment Facilities 1 Feb 2005
154-03-02 Facilities for Microorganisms and Cell Cultures: 2007a 5 Sep 2007
155-04-03 A standard for diagnostic facilities which undertake the identification of new organisms, excluding animal pathogens Biosecurity New Zealand 28 Apr 2005
155-04-09 Containment Facilities for Plants: 2007 12 October 2007

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