Biosecurity Surveillance Strategy

MAF Biosecurity New Zealand is leading the development of a strategy for a cross-sector national surveillance system that will set the direction for New Zealand's future surveillance activities.

An implementation plan will follow to enable the vision and recommendations of the strategy to be put into action. This national surveillance strategy will cover the plant, animal and marine, freshwater and terrestrial environment sectors.

The draft Biosecurity Surveillance Strategy was available for public consultation between September and November 2008.

A final Biosecurity Surveillance Strategy is now being produce, incorporating the submissions recieved as part of the public consultation process.

The Biosecurity Surveillance Strategy will give an overview perspective, and is about setting a vision for the future and some goals to achieve.The strategy will provide:

• A vision for the future of biosecurity surveillance
• Some goals for biosecurity surveillance in the areas of
  • Leading biosecurity surveillance
  • Working together
  • Delivering quality surveillance
  • Sharing information
• Priority areas for action, including timeframes
• Mechanisms to monitor the implementation of the strategy

The strategy is being developed with input from people with a role or interest in biosecurity surveillance and the wider biosecurity community. The detail of how actions will be undertaken and goals will be achieved will be developed as part of the implementation process. We will seek input from people with a role or interest in biosecurity surveillance during the process of implementing actions and achieving goals.

Key Dates for Stakeholder Feedback and Interaction
Limited release of the review of the Current State of biosecurity surveillance for comment and validation by key external experts		Completed - Download (197 KB)
Limited release of the draft Biosecurity Surveillance Strategy for initial comments by key stakeholders		Completed
Release of the draft Biosecurity Surveillance Strategy for public consultation		Completed
Release of the Review of Submissions		late March 2009
Release of the final Biosecurity Surveillance Strategy		2 July 2009

When documents are available for public viewing or comment, you may find them here. You can contact us at NZBiosecuritySurveillance@maf.govt.nz.

Here is the latest stakeholder update:

• November 2009 (36 KB)

Any other questions?

Please contact us at NZBiosecuritySurveillance@maf.govt.nz.

Page last updated: 23 October 2009