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Minister Coveney noted that 83% of applications were received online for 2014 and confirmed that applications can only be submitted using the online facility for 2015. The closing date for applications is 31st March 2015.

Meat from cattle, sheep, swine, and goats slaughtered in Lithuania, or parts or other products thereof, processed in certified Lithuanian establishments, would be eligible for export to the United States.

In case Russia removes retaliatory economic restrictive measures pork export from the EU will be possible after a new form of veterinary certificate is agreed upon.

The strongest performers in terms of export growth were prepared foods, dairy, seafood, poultry, pigmeat and edible horticulture.

The temporary ban affects animals that may be susceptible to FMD and their products and by-products, coming from Chungcheongbuk-Do, Korea; Jiangsu, China; and Caprivi, Namibia.

Cuban pig production grew by more than 800 tonnes in 2014.

Due to the recent finding of positive serology against the TGE virus, the National Healt and Food and Agriculture Quality Service (SENASA) recommends strengthening the biosecurity measures on the farms.

The National Health and Quality Service (SENASA) established new technical requirements for the sanitary authorisation of the means of transport of live animals.

The Single National Commission for Piglets: a new single national market for watching, protecting and making the piglets' market transparent.

The EU has committed close to €180 million for 2015, to support veterinary programmes that aim to eliminate animal diseases and zoonoses and further strengthen the protection of human and animal health.

The agreement, signed by the head of SAGARPA, Enrique Martínez y Martínez, has a positive impact on the Agency's promotion of hog production.

Italy concludes 2014 with 4 confirmed outbreaks: 1 in Campania (with 50 animals affected), 2 in Basilicata (690 animals), and 1 in Calabria (3 animals).

Between September and November 2014, 29.4 million pigs were weaned on U.S. farms, up 4 percent from the same time period in 2013.