#32026D1355Updated EU emergency zones for lumpy skin disease in Italy
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This decision updates the EU emergency control areas in Italy for lumpy skin disease, a serious virus affecting cattle. It changes the annexes to the earlier 2025 decision, which list the protection, surveillance and vaccination zones where special animal-health controls apply. The practical impact is on cattle farms, livestock transporters, veterinarians and authorities in the listed Italian areas. They need to follow the updated movement controls, monitoring duties and vaccination-zone rules aimed at stopping the disease from spreading within Italy and to other EU countries.
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Key Changes
- Updates the annexes listing Italian protection and surveillance zones for lumpy skin disease
- Updates the vaccination zones where special disease-control measures apply
- Keeps emergency controls focused on cattle movements and disease monitoring in affected areas
Obligations
What this law requires
Italian competent authorities must apply the updated protection, surveillance and vaccination-zone measures for lumpy skin disease virus in the Italian areas listed in the amended Annexes to Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1582.
Operators keeping bovine animals in the listed protection and surveillance zones must comply with the special animal-health controls applicable in those restricted zones, including movement-control measures intended to prevent spread of lumpy skin disease virus.
Livestock transporters moving bovine animals or related products from, to or within the listed Italian restricted zones must comply with the updated movement restrictions and controls applicable to those zones.
Veterinary authorities and relevant operators in the listed vaccination zones must follow the vaccination-zone rules set out under Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1582 as amended by this decision.