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A brochure has been published, in several languages, on the important role of hunters in the control of African swine fever.

The Member States concerned shall ensure that passenger transport operators, including airport and port operators, travel agencies (including hunting trip organisers) and postal services operators are required to draw the attention of their customers to the control measures.

Reinforce the communication on the risks linked to ASF as a crucial element to prevent the spreading of the disease.

Communication actions will target passenger transport operators as well as postal services operators.

New cases of African swine fever in wild boar in Poland, Lithuania and Latvia constitute an increased level of risk.

Poland encouraged the Commission to take action among others through: aid for private storage...

The transport and delivery routes for livestock production must be closely monitored.

The Work Group is preparing a regulation project that introduces the obligation of all the farms to adapt, so they fulfil the biosecurity programme principles.

The prohibition affects four voivodates.

Since June 2017, these countries have notified 3,089 outbreaks in wild boars and 122 in domestic pigs.

The current outbreak, notified by the WOAH, has been detected on a backyard farm.

At a special meeting of the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) on 3 January, a European Union request for authorization to suspend concessions or other obligations with respect to the Russian Federation in a dispute over import restrictions on pig products was referred to arbitration.

Pig keepers are being reminded not to feed kitchen scraps to their animals to prevent outbreaks of animal disease.

According to the ESA platform, there has been an increase in the number of outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF) in the last months in Europe.