Update on African swine fever since 14 February 2020 (PAFF)

G3 - Eradication of animal diseases and official controls

DG SANTE - European Commission

PAFF Committee Meeting 19 June 2020

Brussels

1. Lithuania (1/2014)

2. Poland (1/2014)

3. Latvia (6/2014) last ASF outbreak in pigs 7/2019

4. Estonia (7/2015) – last ASF outbreak in pigs 9/2017

5. Romania (7/2017)

6. Hungary (4/2018) – only in wild boar

7. Bulgaria (6/2018)

8. Belgium (9/2018) – only in wild boar, no new cases since 08/2019

9. Slovakia (7/2019) last ASF outbreak

in pigs 8/2019

10. Greece (2/2020) – one outbreak in pigs

11. Sardinia, IT - from 1978, genotype I

Czechia – 6/2017, free from ASF since 02/2019

ASF in the EU in 2014-2020

Map. ASF in the EU in 2020 (18/06/2020). European Commission

ASF cases in wild boar

ASF outbreaks in domestic pigs

ASF in the EU 2019-2020 (ADNS)

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ADNS DATA up to

18/06/2020

notification of cases

in Wild Boar in 2019

Outbreaks in Domestic

Pigs 2019

notification of cases

in Wild Boar in 2020

Outbreaks in

Domestic Pigs 2020

POLAND 2477 48 2668 4

LITHUANIA 464 19 112 1

LATVIA 369 1 132 -

ESTONIA 80 - 24 -

ROMANIA 693 1728 524 288

HUNGARY 1605 - 2794 -

BULGARIA 165 44 329 17

BELGIUM 482 - 3* -

ITALY (Sardinia) 63 1 32 -

SLOVAKIA 27 11 121 -

GREECE - - - 1

TOTAL 6425 1852 6739 311 * Cases related to old remainings (bones) of dead wild boar (indicating the presence of the disease some time before the finding).

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Current ASF situation in Asia-Pacific

• China (Aug 2018) • Mongolia (Jan 2019) • Vietnam (Feb 2019) • Cambodia (Apr 2019) • DPRK (May 2019) • Lao PDR (Jun 2019) • Myanmar (Aug 2019) • Philippines (Sep 2019) • ROK (Sep 2019) • Timor-Leste (Sep 2019) • Indonesia (Dec 2019) • Papua New Guinea (Mar 2020) • India (May 2020)

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EU regionalisation measures on ASF

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Continuously updated

• Decision (EU) 2020/291 of 28 Feb 2020 • Decision (EU) 2020/397 of 12 Mar 2020 • Decision (EU) 2020/451 of 26 Mar 2020 • Decision (EU) 2020/514 of 8 Apr 2020 • Decision (EU) 2020/543 of 17 Apr 2020 • Decision (EU) 2020/662 of 15 May 2020 • Decision (EU) 2020/773 of 11 June 2020

Latest amendment: • Decision (EU) 2020/… of 18 June 2020

• Update in relation to ASF epidemiological

situation in Slovakia and Poland

Main EC activities on ASF since February 2020

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• 5 March: 2nd meeting of Commission’s Inter-service steering group on ASF

• 21 April: remote meeting of SGE on ASF for Asia, GFTADS

• 29 April: New Annex IV to the Strategic approach: National control plans for wild boar management (thanks to all MS for comments!)

• 6 May: remote meeting of 15th SGE on ASF for Europe, GFTADs

• 2-3 June: Prohibitions and Restrictions Customs Control Strategy (PARCS) meeting (Updated Risk information form + letter on ASF by World Customs Organization)

• 10 June: remote Rural Development Committee (presentation on ASF)

• 15 June: remote SGE on ASF for Americas, GFTADS

• 17 June: remote Meeting with Balkan countries and Ukraine/Moldova on ASF funding

BTSF

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• 15 training sessions (from October 2020 to February 2022) in the field of Animal disease preparedness, including early warning, contingency planning and animal disease control as part of the Better Training for Safer Food initiative

• Each training focuses on a particular animal disease: ASF, Foot and Mouth Disease, Avian Influenza and Peste des Petits Ruminants

Mandates to EFSA on ASF

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On-going:

• Risk of transmission by matrices, including feed (by December 2020)

New:

• Exit strategy (by January 2021)

• Outdoor farming (by January 2021)

• Epidemiological analysis (by March 2021)

• Gap research (by June 2021)

PAFF today

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• Presentation of DG AGRI on RDPs

• Additional documents for information uploaded to CIRCABC:

• CAP funding options for measure accompanying the prevention and eradication of ASF (DG AGRI)

• Options for Member States to alleviate the effects of ASF by granting State aid (DG COMP)

• Presentation of DG ENV on requirements under EU nature legislation for certain projects

• Presentations of 11 affected Member States (EE, LV, LT, PL, SK, HU, RO, BG, EL, BE, IT)

• Presentation by Germany on ASF preparedness

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Thank you!

https://ec.europa.eu/food/animals/animal-diseases/control-measures/asf_en