#32026R1409EU updates African swine fever control zones
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This regulation updates the EU’s mapped control zones for African swine fever after new outbreaks in Poland. It changes the annexes to Regulation 2023/594, which list areas subject to special disease-control rules for pigs, wild boar, and related products. Pig farmers, slaughterhouses, transporters, meat processors, and traders operating in or near the listed Polish areas should check whether movement restrictions, biosecurity controls, or documentation requirements now apply to them.
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Key Changes
- Updates Annexes I and II of Regulation 2023/594 to reflect the latest African swine fever situation
- Adds or adjusts restricted and infected zones linked to new outbreaks in Poland
- Keeps special movement and control measures aligned with current disease risk
Obligations
What this law requires
Member States with areas listed in Annexes I or II to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594 must apply the special African swine fever disease-control measures for those listed areas for the applicable limited period.
Competent authorities must treat newly listed affected Polish areas as restricted, infected, protection, or surveillance zones as set out in the amended Annexes I and II to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594.
Operators handling kept or wild porcine animals or products of porcine origin in the listed restricted or infected zones must comply with the applicable African swine fever movement prohibitions and disease-control restrictions under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594.
Following official confirmation of African swine fever in wild porcine animals, competent authorities must establish an infected zone and prohibit movements of wild animals of listed species and products of animal origin from those animals as required by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687.