It is the exporter's responsibility to ensure that the animal meets the importing country requirements.

An import permit is required.

Contact the Ministry of Agriculture for information about importing animals into the Kingdom of Jordan from Australia.

Email

Agri@moa.gov.jo

Note

Where an importing country issues an import permit, the exporter must ensure the animal meets any requirements in the permit.

As importing country requirements may change without advice to the Department you should check the import permit and/or the country website carefully at the time of preparation for export.

Prospective exporters must obtain and supply a NAATI certified 2/3 level English translation to the relevant Departmental regional office at the time of NOI submission.

Certifying officers must review the import permit(s) and conditions provided by the exporter and ensure that the issued document(s) are consistent with the permit(s).

Health certificate

I, Dr __________________________, a duly authorised government veterinary officer, hereby certify that:

1. Mainland Australia has been free from Varroasis (Varroa destructor), Acariasis and Tropilaelaps for at least 2 years.
2. The following diseases are Nationally Notifiable in Australia. The bees are from apiaries that have had no reported cases of the following bee diseases listed by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE):
   
   
• Acariasis (Acarapisosis)
• Infestation with Tropilaelaps spp.
• American Foulbrood (Paenibacillus larvae)
• European Foulbrood (Melissococcus plutonius)
• Varroasis
  
  for at least the last 6 months prior to export.
  
  
3. The apiary is certified for small hive beetle (SHB) (Aethina tumida) as follows:
1. All packing and shipping location(s) on the apiary premises from which the honey bee queens have been prepared for shipping to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan have been inspected for SHB with negative results by Federal or State apiary inspector within 30 days prior to export. The packing and shipping location(s) were indoors, certified to be free from SHB and certified to be inaccessible to entry by SHB at any time during packing and shipping, and
2. A declaration (attached) has been signed by the owner/exporter providing assurances to the Federal or State apiary inspector that they will comply with the following requirements:
1. All packing of the queens and attendants into cages and then into shipping boxes for export must be done in the inspected area(s).
2. All queens and attendant worker bees must be caught by hand and placed in new queen cages with ventilation holes no longer than 2 mm x 2mm or if longer than 2 mm are no wider than 1 mm. Worker bee attendants (2-6 attendants per queen) have been placed in individual queen cages with the queen and not loose in a battery box.
3. Queen cages filled with queens and attendants must be stored in the designated and inspected packing and shipping location(s) until shipping.
4. The bees come from hives that were inspected within 30 days of the proposed export. At the time of inspection the bees appeared healthy and did not show any symptoms of contagious bee diseases.

Owner or exporter declaration

Declaration by the owner or exporter of queen honey bees from Australia to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Owner/Exporter's details:

__________________________________________

__________________________________________

__________________________________________

I declare that:

1. all queen bees in the accompanying consignment are less than one year old and have been recently mated.
2. in packaging all queen bees and escorts to be exported to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan I will comply with the following requirements:
   i. All packing of the queens and attendants into cages and then into shipping boxes for export must be done in the area (s) inspected by an apiary inspector of ______________ (state, territory or Federal).
   
   ii. All queens and attendant worker bees must be caught by hand and placed in new queen cages with ventilation holes no longer than 2 mm x 2mm or if longer than 2 mm are no wider than 1 mm. Worker bee attendants (2-6 attendants per queen) must be placed in individual queen cages with the queen and not loose in a battery box.
   
   iii. Queen cages filled with queens and attendants must be stored in the designated and inspected packing and shipping location(s) until shipping.

Signed______________________________________

Date ______________________________________

Document requirements

The shipment must be accompanied with an import permit, Certificate of Origin and Health Certificate.

Pre-export preparations

There may be particular requirements for packaging the honey bees for export and you should check this.

Transport requirements

There may be requirements for transportation and approved routes for exporting honey bees and you should check this.

Based on agreed health conditions and importing country website and information.

Entry last reviewed 1 October 2021.