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Forthcoming meeting on the elaboration of the CU’s position concerning protective measures to be taken as regards the introduction of African Swine Fever to the EU territory.

The Commission has proposed to provisionally exclude the infected area of the EU from certification of exports of live pigs and pork to Russia, but Russia is not ready to accept.

The outbreak is located in a backyard farm in Krasnodons’kyi (Lugansk).

Negotiations will be held for discussion of practicability of introduction of temporary restrictions on importation of such products into the Customs Union from the whole territory of the European Union.

European Commission has established, in collaboration with Lithuania, a list of the restricted zones for African swine fever.

The State Food and Veterinary Service informs that African swine fever was detected in two wild boars hunted in the area bordering the Šalčininkai and Alytus-Varėna regions.

The outbreak is located on a farm in Gusevka, Olkhovsky (Volgogradskaya).

Rosselkhoznadzor informs about the imposition of temporary restrictions on the import of porcine products from the Lugansk Oblast, Ukraine, from January 17, 2014.

Temporary restrictions lifted from pigs and porcine products from a number of pig farms and meat-processing plants of the Brestskaya Oblast in the Republic of Belarus.

A total of 10 pigs have been slaughtered and destroyed. In the protection area (3 km) there are 44 farms, whilst in the surveillance area (10 km) there are 269 farms.

Ukrainian veterinary authorities have informed the OIE about an outbreak of African swine fever in a wild boar in forester-hunting ground "Pischane", Stanychno-Luganskyi (Lugansk).

The outbreak is located in Parakou (Parakou), at the same location than in 2005.

The Rosselkhoznadzor considered feasible to lift temporary restrictions imposed on pig and pork product movements from several pig farms and meat processing plants of the Minsk Oblast.

The OIE notifies 4 new outbreaks of African Swine Fever, most of them in wild pigs.