#32026D1145EU updates lumpy skin disease control zones in Italy
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This decision updates the annexes that define Italy’s restricted and vaccination zones for lumpy skin disease in cattle. The disease affects bovine animals and can disrupt farms, animal movements, related products, and exports if it spreads. The practical effect is that Italian authorities, cattle farmers, livestock transporters, and businesses handling bovine products must follow the updated zone boundaries and related emergency controls. Operators in affected areas should check whether their location is now covered by a protection, surveillance, or vaccination zone and adjust movement, health, and compliance steps accordingly.
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Key Changes
- Updates the annexes listing restricted zones in Italy for lumpy skin disease controls
- Adjusts the areas covered by protection, surveillance, and vaccination measures
- Requires affected cattle operators to follow the revised movement and disease-control rules for their zone
Obligations
What this law requires
Italian competent authorities must apply the updated Annexes to Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1582 when determining the restricted zones for infection with lumpy skin disease virus in Italy.
In the event of an outbreak of infection with lumpy skin disease virus in bovine animals, the competent authority must establish a restricted zone comprising at least a protection zone and a surveillance zone, and further restricted zones where necessary.
Operators keeping bovine animals in areas covered by the updated Italian restricted or vaccination zones must comply with the emergency disease-control measures applicable in those zones.
Businesses involved in movements of bovine animals or products from affected Italian zones must check whether the relevant establishment or route falls within an updated protection, surveillance, further restricted, or vaccination zone before carrying out movements.