Pig Trade Bans Extended in Parts of Europe
BRUSSELS - May 9/02 - STAT -- Shipments of live pigs and porcine semen, ova and embryos from parts of Germany and several regions of Spain will be extended until June 30 at the earliest, says the European Union's Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health.
The bans are in response to persistent outbreaks of classical swine fever (CSF) in the affected regions of Germany, Luxembourg, France and Spain.
Restrictive measures are already applicable in these areas. At the and of April an outbreak of CSF has also been confirmed in a pig holding in the Municipality of Cemery-les-Deux, department of Moselle in France and in a feral pig found dead in the same department.
In the light of the tendency of the disease to spread further in the feral pig population and the repeated outbreaks occuring in domestic pigs, despite the measures already adopted, the Commission proposed to take further measures for the control of CSF in the whole zone concerned by the disease. The export of all live pigs and porcine semen, ova and embryos from the affected areas, which include some areas bordering France, Luxembourg and Germany, will be banned.
Affected areas of Spain include the comarca of Osona, province of Barcelona where the 16th outbreak of this year has now been confirmed. Due to this situation, exports bans will remain in effect until June 30 for the province of Barcelona and the comarcas of Ripollès, Garrotxa and Selva in the province of Gerona in the autonomous region of Cataluña.
Affected areas in France include the departments Moselle and Meurthe-et-Moselle.
In Germany, trade bans apply to the whole territory of Rhineland-Palatinate, except those areas located eastern of the river Rhine; Mettlach, Merzig, Beckingen, Losheim, Weiskirchen, and Wadern in the Kreise Merzig-Wadern; Dillingen, Bous, Ensdorf, Schwalbach, Saarwellingen, Nalbach, Lebach, Schmelz, and Saarlouis the Kreis Saarlouis; Nonnweiler, Nohfelden, and Tholey in the Kreis Sankt Wendel; and the Gemeinde of Dahlem, Blankenheim, Bad Muenstereifel und Stadt Euskirchen in North Rhine-Wesfalia.
The parts of the territory of Luxembourg located eastern of the motorway A3 (from the border with France to the city of Luxembourg) and the roads N7 and N9 (from the city of Luxembourg until Ettelbruck) and then southern of roads B7 and N19 (from Ettelbruck until the border with Germany).
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