Date of effect: Immediate
Reference Number: MAA2657
Attention
- Industry bodies – ARA, PFIAA, AWGIC, FIAAA, SFMCA
- Export Establishments
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry — Central and Regional offices
Purpose
This Market Access Advice provides information on the process for foreign manufacturing establishment registration and product listing/registration with Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA) for the export of products intended for animal feeding. The registration process is summarised in the diagram below.
Summary
Circular No. 21/2025/DIPOA/SDA/MAPA decrees that from 8 July 2025 onward, foreign establishments that handle, fraction, group, prepare or package products intended for animal feed to be exported to Brazil became subject to registration with MAPA and must also register their products. Every product will be either listed (imported products analogous to domestic products exempt from registration) or registered (imported products analogous to domestic products requiring registration). Product listing/registration will be valid for 10 years.
This regulation encompasses ingredients intended for animal feeding (including rendered products), stockfeed, feed supplements, feed additives and petfood. The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry is now inviting applications from establishments who wish to be considered for registration with MAPA. Establishments can apply for registration to support export of the following products:
- Processed animal protein intended for use in animal feed
- Animal feed additives
[Please note that there is currently no agreed certification for the export of raw pet meat and processed petfood from Australia to Brazil. This means that applications for MAPA registration for these products cannot be progressed at this time. To register your interest in exporting petfood to Brazil please contact ExportStandards@aff.gov.au. If certification for petfood products is agreed in the future, petfood establishments will also need to apply for listing with MAPA.]
Transitional provisions for importing establishments registered in MAPA's Sistema Integrado de Produtos e Estabelecimentos Agropecuários (SIPEAGRO) and foreign manufacturing establishments registered in PGA SIGSIF before 8 July 2025 will be in place until 8 July 2030, when all listings and registrations must be with MAPA. Despite this provision, it is recommended that all foreign manufacturers of products intended for animal feed undertake establishment and product listing/registration with MAPA as soon as possible to avoid future trade disruptions. Any establishments that are already registered for products intended for human consumption will also need to be registered separately for products intended for animal feed.
Establishment registration with MAPA is a requirement to export these products to Brazil. For products requiring government certificates, certificates are only available for establishments and products that are formally registered with MAPA and subsequently listed for Brazil in the Establishment Register. Circular No. 21/2025/DIPOA/SDA/MAPA advises that foreign manufacturing establishment registration is to be notified by the exporting country's competent authority.
How to apply
Manufacturers wishing to be considered should email NPGExports@aff.gov.au to provide the following information:
1. New applications – establishments not currently listed within the department's Establishment Register
- New establishments without a current departmental listing and corresponding establishment number must submit an application for export listing of establishments manufacturing non prescribed goods form.
- Establishments must also fill in the spreadsheet based on the Annex I model table in Circular No. 21/2025/DIPOA/SDA/MAPA (which can be found here). The department will fill in the Number column once the new establishment is listed in the Establishment Register.
- Establishments will need to provide supporting evidence to enable the department to issue a Good Manufacturing Practice declaration:
- A certificate of Good Manufacturing Practice with the products intended for MAPA registration within scope of the certification; or
- HACCP certification for the manufacturing operations relevant to the products intended for MAPA registration.
- For rendering establishments: evidence of a current compliant audit to the Australian Standard for the Hygienic Rendering of Animal Products (AS 5008:2007).
2. Establishments listed within the department's Establishment Register
- Establishments must submit a continuation of export listing or amendment of export listing for establishments producing animal-by-products form. Establishment details must match current information contained in the Establishment Register (ER).
- Establishments must also fill in the spreadsheet based on the Annex I model table in Circular No. 21/2025/DIPOA/SDA/MAPA (which can be found here).
- Establishments will need to provide supporting evidence to enable the department to issue a Good Manufacturing Practice declaration:
- A certificate of Good Manufacturing Practice with the products intended for MAPA registration within scope of the certification; or
- HACCP certification for the manufacturing operations relevant to the products intended for MAPA registration.
- For rendering establishments: evidence of a current compliant audit to the Australian Standard for the Hygienic Rendering of Animal Products (AS 5008:2007).
Establishment listing is not immediate and is subject to approval by MAPA. Except for manufacturing establishments and products registered in the SIPEAGRO/PGA-SIGSIF system before 8 July 2025, exporters are cautioned not to send product to Brazil until the establishment and product listing/registration is approved by MAPA as the department will be unable to facilitate release of any detained consignments. Any changes to details registered in the SIPEAGRO/PGA-SIGSIF system must be notified to MAPA via the department to avoid trade disruption.
Product registration following establishment registration
Following establishment registration, establishments will be listed on the PGA-SIGSIF platform. Manufacturing establishment representatives can then register with PGA-SIGSIF and request access/linking with their company in the platform to register/list product for export. Further instructions for registration of products can be found on the MAPA website here.
The Manual of Importing Country Requirements (Micor) will be updated to reflect this market access advice. The department encourages users of Micor to subscribe to the Micor update service for a commodity-specific email that lists changes that have been made in the preceding week.
The department encourages all exporters to work with their importer to ensure that product meets the current importing country requirements.
Further information
Contact NPGExports@aff.gov.au if you have any queries.