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Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2433 amending Implementing Decision 2014/709/EU as regards the animal health control measures relating to African swine fever in certain Member States.

Country/Territory
European Union
Document type
Regulation
Date
2015
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Official Journal of the European Union L 334, 22 December 2015, pp. 46-60.
Subject
Livestock, Food & nutrition
Keyword
Food quality control/food safety Swine International trade Animal health Pests/diseases
Geographical area
European Union Countries
Abstract

This Decision lays down amendments and addenda to Commission Implementing Decision 2014/709/EU, which establishes animal health control measures in relation to African swine fever in certain Member States. Those measures include prohibitions on the dispatch of live pigs, porcine semen, ova and embryo, pig meat, pig meat preparations, pig meat products and any other products containing pig meat, as well as consignments of animal by-products from porcine animals. The measures are hereby updated in order to adapt to the evolution of the epidemiological situation in the different areas of the Member States concerned, and to take account of the different risk levels depending on the type of commodities.

Full text
English
Website
eur-lex.europa.eu

References - Legislation

Amends

Commission Implementing Decision 2014/709/EU concerning animal health control measures relating to African swine fever in certain Member States and repealing Implementing Decision 2014/178/EU.

Legislation | European Union | 2014

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Swine, International trade, Animal health, Pests/diseases

Source: FAO, FAOLEX