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5  Appropriate Level of Protection (ALOP) for Australia against biosecurity risks
  The Appropriate Level of Protection (or ALOP) for Australia is a high level of sanitary and phytosanitary protection aimed at reducing biosecurity risks to a very low level, but not to zero.
Note 1: This section is in accordance with Australia's rights and obligations under the SPS Agreement.
Note 2: The ALOP for Australia must be applied in conducting a BIRA (see subsection 167(2)) or a risk assessment for the purpose of deciding whether particular goods, or a particular class of goods, can be brought or imported into Australian territory (see subsections 173(4), 174(3), 179(1A) and 182(4)).