Notice - Notification of WTO Members: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/361 of 22 February 2021 laying down emergency measures for movements between member States and the entry into the Union of consignments of salamanders in relation to infection with Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans
| WTO code |
G/SPS/N/EU/462 |
| Date notice |
02/03/2021 |
| Notice type |
Regular |
| Title |
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/361 of 22 February 2021 laying down emergency measures for movements between member States and the entry into the Union of consignments of salamanders in relation to infection with Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans |
| Summary |
Animal health measures for movement of consignments of salamanders between EU member States and for the entry of such consignments into the Union to ensure that the fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) is not spread by those animals. The relevant current Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/320 applies until 21 April 2021. The new measures by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/361 will apply from 21 April 2021. They take into account risk mitigation measures referred to in an EFSA Technical Assistance and in an EFSA Scientific Opinion (see below under point 9), and experience with the application of Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/320. They provide for appropriate quarantine, diagnostic testing and treatment of salamanders as well as for certification of their health status. These measures are of temporary nature. Most risk-mitigating measures, in particular the quarantining in an appropriate establishment, testing and treatment of traded and introduced salamanders are to be done by competent veterinary authorities, operators and laboratories located within the Union. All consignments of salamanders destined for intra-Union trade or entry into the Union are subject to risk mitigation measures.
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| Product |
Live animals of the Order Caudata (HS Code 01069000) |
| Country |
European Union |
File attach:
NEU462.pdf
Orther Notice: