The Horse Industry Consultative Committee (HICC) is the principal consultative forum for the Department of Agriculture and Environment (DAWE) to engage with industry on equine biosecurity, quarantine and market access issues, and related animal health and welfare matters. Dr Patricia Ellis represents the Australian Horse Industry Council on the HICC.
The HICC most recently met by teleconference on 23 April 2020.
Items discussed at the HICC meeting included:
· an update on operations at the Mickleham post entry quarantine station
· the type of swab used for taking samples for equine influenza
· the impact of COVID 19 on the international movement of flying grooms
· a review of the glanders status of different countries
· African horse sickness in Thailand
· national horse traceability
· identification requirements for horse imported from New Zealand
· import clearance of horses at seaports
For more detail - the minutes of the meeting have been published on the DAWE website: