#32026D1038EU expands foot-and-mouth disease restriction zones in Lesvos, Greece
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This decision expands and updates EU emergency zones for foot-and-mouth disease in the Lesvos regional unit of Greece after additional outbreaks were confirmed. It replaces the annex to the earlier 2026/820 decision and sets 3 km protection zones and 10 km surveillance zones around 57 outbreak locations, all applying until 15 June 2026. Livestock farmers, animal transporters, slaughterhouses, dairy and meat supply chains, and exporters linked to Lesvos need to follow the movement and disease-control limits that apply in these zones. The rest of Lesvos is also kept under a further restricted zone, which means animal and animal-product movements may face extra controls until the disease risk is contained.
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Key Changes
- Replaces the annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/820 with updated restricted zones for Lesvos.
- Creates or confirms protection zones of 3 km and surveillance zones of 10 km around 57 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak locations.
- Keeps the remaining area of the Lesvos regional unit under a further restricted zone until 15 June 2026.
Obligations
What this law requires
Greece must replace the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/820 with the updated Annex in Decision (EU) 2026/1038, thereby applying the revised emergency zoning for foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in Lesvos.
Greece must establish protection zones in Lesvos consisting of all areas within a 3 km radius of each listed confirmed foot-and-mouth disease outbreak coordinate in the Annex.
Greece must establish surveillance zones in Lesvos consisting of all areas within a 10 km radius of each listed confirmed foot-and-mouth disease outbreak coordinate, excluding the corresponding protection zone.
Greece must ensure that the protection-zone and surveillance-zone disease-control measures required under Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687 are applied in the updated restricted zones listed for Lesvos.
Greece must maintain a further restricted zone around or adjacent to the listed protection and surveillance zones in Lesvos where the additional restricted-zone measures under Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/820 and Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687 apply.