Types of compliance requirements
MPI is responsible for issuing compliance requirements that cover a wide range of sectors including agriculture, forestry, biosecurity, fisheries, food, and aquaculture.
Some of the requirements issued by MPI is secondary legislation. On this page, we list in-force secondary legislation made by MPI.
You can find out more about secondary legislation in section 5 of the Legislation Act 2019 and on the New Zealand Legislation website.
Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997
Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Notices
Animal Products Act 1999
Overseas Market Access Requirements (OMARs) for animal products (password protected)
Overseas Market Access Requirements (OMARs) for live animals and germplasm
Animal Welfare Act 1999
Biosecurity Act 1993
National Policy Direction for Pest Management [PDF, 6.8 MB]
Craft Risk Management Standards
Climate Change Response Act 2002
Climate Change Response Instruments
Fisheries Act 1983 and Fisheries Act 1996
Food Act 1981 and Food Act 2014
Food Notices and Food Standards
Food Notices adopting Joint Australia NZ Food Standards amendments
For more information refer to Joint Australia NZ Food Standards
Forests Act 1949
Changes to forestry legal harvest assurance legislation
Organic Products and Production Act 2023
Changes to organic products legislation
Wine Act 2003
Not all compliance requirements are listed on this page
Some compliance requirements are not issued as secondary legislation but still must be followed. An example is 'Plant Export Requirements'. Those types of requirements are not listed on this page.
