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With this decision, both countries will move forward regarding the process of admissibility of products such as pork destined to this Asian market.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) agreed to step up joint action to combat health threats associated with interactions between humans, animals and the environment.

Parliament approved plans to erect a 1.5-metre fence across the Danish-German border.

Mexico will impose equivalent measures to several products in the face of the USA protectionist measures regarding steel and aluminium.

The total feed sales for the three main livestock categories (cattle, swine and fowl) have increased.

For the next long-term EU budget 2021-2027, the Commission is proposing to modernise and simplify the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

Antimicrobials are important to safeguard the health of humans and animals, but these medicines need to be used responsibly, including in the agricultural sectors, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said at a high-level UN coordination meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

This is the result of herd reduction in the past year.

At the occasion of the 86th General Session of the OIE, the 181 OIE Member Countries discussed several revisions of OIE international Standards and guidelines resulting in a stronger veterinary supervision of the use of antimicrobials in animals worldwide.

At this year’s General Session, the World Assembly of OIE Delegates distributed 11 certificates to 10 countries for official disease status recognition.

Due to the situation of ASF in Romania and the EU, Russia has forbidden the entry of Romanian pork and pork products.

This international status will encourage the negotiations with third countries for the export of pigs and their products.

A new chapter regarding the welfare of animals in production systems was adopted for pigs.

The European Commission has adopted the new rules on labelling the origin of the primary ingredient in food which were endorsed by a vote by the Member States.

The new rules, which came into force this week, will allow data from the EU's Copernicus Sentinel satellites and other Earth observation data to be used as evidence when checking farmers' fulfilment of requirements under the CAP.

Argentina has received the official international recognition as a Classical Swine Fever (CSF)-free country by the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH/OIE).