What's changing in 2026
Compliance rules move, and the ones with a date attached are the ones that catch people out — usually at accreditation or audit, when it's too late to do much about it. This is a running list of the dated changes affecting Australian cattle producers: what changes, who it actually hits, and what to do before the date. Two land in September 2026.
At a glance
| Date | Change | Who it affects |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Sept 2026 | On-farm Biosecurity Management Plan must be uploaded to your LPA account, per property | Anyone seeking LPA accreditation or reaccreditation — i.e. most producers |
| Sept 2026 | EU prohibits antimicrobials used for growth promotion or increased yield | EUCAS-accredited producers supplying the EU |
LPA biosecurity plans must be uploaded — for every property
Affects: anyone seeking LPA accreditation or reaccreditation.
What changes. From 1 September 2026, producers seeking LPA accreditation or reaccreditation will need to upload an On-farm Biosecurity Management Plan for each property associated with their LPA account. Holding a plan is no longer enough on its own — it has to be lodged against the account, per property.
Two ways to comply. Integrity Systems gives you a choice: use the free online tool in your LPA account, or upload a copy of an existing plan that covers the required elements. The second option matters if you already maintain a plan elsewhere — you don't have to re-enter it into their tool.
Already uploaded one? ISC asks you to check it and update it if necessary. This is the part most people will skip. A plan uploaded years ago that no longer describes how the property actually runs is exactly what an auditor picks up.
What the plan must cover — three areas: Livestock (how you manage and record stock entering and moving around the property), People, vehicles and equipment (how you control and, where practical, record who and what comes on), and Animal health (how you monitor stock and manage disease).
Do this now: find your current plan, check it still matches the property, and confirm one exists for every PIC on your LPA account — not just the home block. → Full biosecurity guide · ISC source
EU bans antimicrobials used for growth promotion
Affects: EUCAS-accredited producers supplying the EU market.
What changes. For imports after September 2026, the EU prohibits antimicrobials used for growth promotion or increased yield anywhere in its supply chain. Under EUCAS that splits antimicrobial use in two.
Still permitted: treating or preventing disease — bloat, ketosis, bacterial infections, coccidiosis. Most Australian antimicrobial products are labelled for these uses and can continue.
Prohibited: growth promotion or increased yield — improved liveweight gain, faster growth, better feed-conversion efficiency, improved reproductive performance.
The five to check. DAFF has identified five actives whose labels include growth-promotion uses: flavophospholipol, lasalocid, monensin, narasin and salinomycin. They aren't banned — they may only be used to treat or prevent disease on a EUCAS property.
Do this now: review every antimicrobial used on the property or included in feeds and supplements, and confirm the purpose recorded against each is disease treatment or prevention. Talk to your vet or nutrition advisor before changing anything. → Full EUCAS guide · APVMA PubCRIS
Why dated changes catch people out
Both of these share a pattern worth noticing. Neither asks you to farm differently — they ask you to prove something you're probably already doing. The biosecurity change is about lodging a document; the antimicrobial change is about the reason recorded against a treatment you may already be giving.
That's why they get missed. There's no new practice to adopt, so nothing prompts you — until accreditation or an audit, when the evidence either exists or it doesn't. The producers who sail through are the ones whose records were already capturing the why, not just the what.
Where Tagline fits
Both changes are records problems underneath. Tagline holds the biosecurity plan as live structured data on the official LPA-06 template — one per property, generating the filled official PDF you upload, so nothing is keyed twice and the version you lodge is the current one. Treatment records carry the product, batch, dose and the reason against the animals that received it, which is precisely what the antimicrobial rule turns into an audit question. Neither change becomes a scramble if the records were already doing their job.
The changes that catch producers out aren't the ones that alter how you farm. They're the ones that alter what you have to prove.
Further reading
- Integrity Systems — Biosecurity — The LPA biosecurity requirement and the September 2026 change.
- Integrity Systems — LPA — Accreditation, requirements and audits.
- DAFF — EUCAS — The current Rules for Farms, including the antimicrobial requirements.
- APVMA PubCRIS — Check any product's label and registered uses.
General information for Australian producers, not formal compliance advice. Dates and requirements are set by Integrity Systems, DAFF and your state authority — confirm against the source links above before acting. Last reviewed July 2026.