Abbreviations

AAA Advanced Analytical Australia
AAHL Australian Animal Health Laboratory
ALOP Appropriate Level of Protection
APFA Australian Prawn Farmers Association
Aquatic CCEAD Aquatic Consultative Committee on Emergency Animal Diseases [AqCCEAD]
AQIS Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service
AQUAVETPLAN Australian Aquatic Veterinary Emergency Plan
BA Biosecurity Australia
Beale review One Biosecurity: A Working Partnership. The Independent Review of Australia's Quarantine and Biosecurity Arrangement (September 2008)
BIMS Biosecurity Incident Management System
Biosecurity Act Biosecurity Act 2015 (Cwlth)
BIRA Biosecurity Import Risk Analysis
CCEAD Consultative Committee for Emergency Animal Diseases
Committee Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee
CVO Chief Veterinary Officer
DAWR Department of Agriculture and Water Resources
EAD response plan Emergency Animal Disease response plan
EMAI Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute
FRDC Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
IGAB Intergovernmental Agreement on Biosecurity
IGB Inspector-General of Biosecurity
IMT Incident Management Team
IRA Generic Import Risk Analysis Report for Prawns and Prawn Products (2009)
Legislation committee Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee
NBC National Biosecurity Committee
OIE World Organisation for Animal Health
(Office International des Epizooties)
PCR Polymerase chain reaction
QDAF Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
QSIA Queensland Seafood Industry Association
SPS Sanitary and Phytosanitary
SPS Agreement Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (1994) 
WSD White spot disease
WSSV White spot syndrome virus
WTO World Trade Organisation
YHV Yellowhead virus

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