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Property of origin statements

A key component of live animal exports is the health certification that demonstrates to the importing country that the livestock meet market requirements.  

A key component of live animal exports is the health certification that demonstrates to the importing country that the livestock meet market requirements.

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development property of origin statement, which underpins the federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) certification, involves verification that Western Australian properties meet importing country requirements. WA’s biosecurity systems underpin the ability to issue these statements.

DAFF is the competent authority for live animal export health certification. DAFF issues export health certificates based on animal health and biosecurity declarations provided by state and territory departments. DPIRD provides the declarations for WA, after verifying the biosecurity status of the properties of origin, in the form of a DPIRD property of origin statement.

DPIRD's capability to issue property of origin statements is based on WA's robust biosecurity systems, which include livestock identification and traceability, and livestock disease investigation and diagnostics.

These systems allow WA to verify to international markets our freedom from trade-relevant diseases and that we are likely to detect reportable diseases early.

Based on these systems, DPIRD is able to issue property of origin statements, which involves:

  • accurately defining the property of origin
  • verifying state and/or property disease status for reportable diseases
  • substantiating disease transmission zones
  • verifying property location with regard to disease transmission zones (such as the bluetongue virus zone and cattle tick zone).

Submitting a request for a property or origin statement

Exporters are asked to submit their requests via the online form below.

Property of origin and animal health statement request form

Exporters should submit requests to DPIRD with 3 or more business days’ notice to ensure that DPIRD has sufficient time to process the request. 

Please note: 3 business days' notice includes the day of submission only if the request is received by the department before midday (AWST). Weekends and public holidays are not included. Please note in the comments section of the online form if the request is urgent (i.e. required within less than 3 business days - see fees below).

Requests for clearance of additional properties (property identification codes - PICs) that were not included in the original submission may incur additional fees or require a separate online submission and/or statement.

What information do exporters need to provide?

Exporters will be prompted to provide the following information, as part of the online form submission, with each request:  

  1. The current export health certification requirements for the market to which exporting. Exporters can obtain this from the DAFF Manual of Importing Country Requirements.
  2. A list of the properties of origin, in Excel format, including the property identification codes (PIC). 
  3. The livestock species and consignment type.
  4. The livestock consignment number(s) (LNC).
  5. Vessel name/number.
  6. Estimated date of departure and date by which the statement is needed.
  7. The property of origin statement will be produced by DPIRD and returned to the exporter’s email address specified on the request, no later than the close of business the day before the nominated departure date.

Things to note

Ensure PICs are valid before providing them to the department. PICs can be checked on the department's Brands website.

The department will process PICs provided by the exporter as well as the associated PICs for each property. The fee for a property of origin statement is calculated on both the PICs provided and the associated PICs.

The department provides property of origin animal health declarations for those diseases that are legally reportable, as prescribed by the Biosecurity and Agriculture Management Act 2007. Importing countries and DAFF may have documentation requirements for other non-reportable diseases. Exporters will need to obtain a producer vendor declaration for these other non-reportable diseases.

Fees

The department implements the property of origin statement system on a cost-recovered basis, with the information on the fees applicable for a property of origin statement found on the fees and charges page.

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