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The European Commission has authorised under EU state aid rules the extension until 31 December 2011 of a temporary Hungarian scheme to grant aid of up to €15 000 per beneficiary.

According to preliminary calculations of the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food, Ukraine will import about 100,000 tons of pork in 2011, Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food Volodymyr Ladyka has said.

The objective of the mission was to review and evaluate the measures taken by the Hungarian competent authority (CA) in relation to CSF.

Commission Decision of 3 February 2011 on certain European Union Measures to prevent the transmission of the African swine fever virus from Russia to the Union (2011/78/EU).

According to a report published in the yearly register of the Office of Farming Policy (Opypa) carried out by Eduardo Errea and titled “Recent hog evolution and perspectives”, throughout 2010 the global supply of pork meat in Uruguay increased by 10%, reverting 2009’s trend and taking up a trend reminiscent of that of 2006 and 2007.

East Midlands Pig Health (EMPH) is the latest regional health improvement programme to be launched.

The Ministry of Rural Development said Tuesday that the decision to ease the rules came after consultations with the EU and Germany.

On January 31, 2011, Bulgarian veterinary services informed of a fourth source of foot and mouth disease after detecting the presence of non-structured antibodies in samples taken from thirteen sheep and one cow belonging to different owners. All of the animals were located in the town of Gramitokovo, including within the 10 km security radius established after the first notification of the diseases appearance, also located within the region of Burgas.

German pig prices are showing signs of bouncing back this week as The EU’s farm ministers agreed to introduce a private storage scheme for pork from regions affected by the dioxin scare.

April hogs closed up the 300 point limit and nearby futures pushed to their highest levels since August.