Duration of the project: 2022 - 2025

New Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (2024 – 2033) - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and The World Organisation for Animal Health

STRATEGY

In response to the global ecological and epidemiological changes and repeated intercontinental spread of the H5Nx goose/Guangdong (Gs/GD) lineage high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), under the Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TADs), have drafted a ten-year global strategy for the prevention and control of high pathogenicity avian influenza (2024–2033).

FMD outbreak in Germany

OUTBREAK

On 10 January 2025, the German veterinary authority reported, through the EU Animal Disease Information System (ADIS), an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in a water buffalo holding, in the municipality of Hoppegarten in the Federal State of Brandenburg.

The first Steering Committee meeting of ADEWB II project and the third Western Balkan CVO Forum

16th and 17th of January in
Budva, Montenegro

The agenda of WB CVO Forum covered the topics related to Common activities, Priority Animal diseases, Panel Session: Avian Influenza Continuous threat to Western Balkan.

News

FROM THE PROJECT ACTIVITIES

New Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (2024 – 2033) – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and The World Organisation for Animal Health

February 28

7th WB CVO Forum, Trebinje, BiH, 4-5 December 2024

February 12

7th WB CVO Forum, Trebinje, BiH, 4-5 December 2024 7th WB CVO Forum, Trebinje, BiH, 4-5 December 2024

FMD outbreak in Germany

February 12

MAIN BENEFICIARIES

ALBANIA - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD)

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, Veterinary Office of BiH (VOoBiH)

* Kosovo - Food and Veterinary Agency (FVA) Kosovo Food and verterinary Agency FVA

MONTENEGRO - Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary and Phytosanitary Affairs (AFSVPA)

NORTH MACEDONIA - Food and Veterinary Agency (FVA)

SERBIA - Veterinary Directorate (VD) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management

This website was created and maintained with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the consortium led by AGRICONSULTING EUROPE S.A and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.

EU provides financial assistance to Western Balkan (WB) countries to support their EU integration process, channelled through the instrumental for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA). This project will support the beneficiary countries to improve the capacities of the national systems and harmonize the EU legislation on national level. Results of this project shall ensure that the beneficiary countries become part of the EU internal market with as few barriers as possible in the near future. The project started in July 2022 and will last until July 2025.

Useful links!
WOAH
FAO
EFSA

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