Avian influenza: Standing Committee endorses draft EU Commission decision on Bulgaria

The Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health today gave a favourable opinion to a draft Commission Decision imposing restrictions on imports of poultry and bird products from Bulgaria, following a confirmed outbreak of H5N1 in wild swans in the Bulgarian region of Vidin last week (see IP/06/156). EU imports of live poultry, ratites, farmed and wild feathered game, and hatching eggs from these birds from the whole of Bulgaria are to be banned, while a regionalised ban will apply for imports of poultry meat, eggs and products from wild feathered game, untreated feathers and unprocessed manure from poultry and other birds. The counties to which this regionalised ban will apply are: Vidin, Montana, Vratsa, Pleven, Veliko Tarnovo, Russe, Razgrad, Silistra, Dobrich and Varna.

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