X
XLinkedinWhatsAppTelegramTelegram
0

Bulgaria – FMD: Commission partly lifts protection measures after successful implementation of EU rules

Using the new Comitology procedure for the first time, the European Commission decided yesterday to reduce the areas under restriction in Bulgaria due to Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). The new 'Comitology Regulation', which entered into force on 1st March, lays down the rules on how Member States can exercise control of the Commission’s implementing powers.
3 March 2011
X
XLinkedinWhatsAppTelegramTelegram
0
Using the new Comitology procedure for the first time, the European Commission decided yesterday to reduce the areas under restriction in Bulgaria due to Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). The new 'Comitology Regulation', which entered into force on 1st March, lays down the rules on how Member States can exercise control of the Commission’s implementing powers.

The Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) was first diagnosed in a wild boar shot by hunters at the end of 2010 in the region of Burgas in southeast Bulgaria, close to the border with Turkey, and later testing of samples from farmed animals rendered positive FMD results.

Consequently, the Commission defined high- and low-risk areas in Commission Decision 2011/44/EC prohibiting the dispatch of susceptible animals from both these areas and the dispatch of products derived from susceptible animals from the high-risk area. This decision also provides for the rules applicable to the dispatch from those areas of safe products. Asafe are considered those products that either had been produced before the restrictions and are originating from outside the restricted areas or that had undergone an effective anti-virus treatment.

No new outbreaks have been reported since 31 January 2011 and surveillance has been implemented with satisfactory results in Bulgaria. It is therefore possible to reduce the size of the high-risk area to the two municipalities only (Malko Tarnovo and Tsarevo) and to include in the low-risk area only the three surrounding municipalities of the Burgas region.

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/245&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=ca

Article Comments

This area is not intended to be a place to consult authors about their articles, but rather a place for open discussion among pig333.com users.
Leave a new Comment

Access restricted to 333 users. In order to post a comment you must be logged in.

You are not subscribed to this list pig333.com in 3 minutes

Weekly newsletter with all the pig333.com updates

Log in and sign up on the list