Industry has expressed dissatisfaction with the current system of SPS checks on plants and plant products conducted at inland Border Control Posts (BCPs), citing concerns around value for money, inspection standards, and biosecurity. While a future SPS agreement with the EU may significantly reduce or remove the need for such checks, improvements to the current system are necessary to rebuild industry trust and ensure continued compliance and biosecurity in the interim. The competing demands for APHA plant inspectors across BCPs and Control Points, restricts the availability of inspections at CPs, industry’s preferred location, at the time consignments arrive. Reintroducing Place of Destination (PoD) inspections for a limited number of consignments could ease pressure on the system and improve inspector availability at CPs without requiring a significant expansion of the workforce. (Conclusion, Paragraph 35)