European Commission, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) and Directorate-General for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR) for and behalf of the Beneficiary countries.
Duration of the project: January 2020 - January 2022
About the project
"EU Regional action on animal disease eradication in the Western Balkans”
The project “EU Regional action on animal disease eradication in the Western Balkans”, EuropeAid140314/DH/SER/Multi - SANTE/2018-G-046, is financially supported by the European Union (EU) to facilitate trade with the EU for the Western Balkan Countries by achieving the same animal disease status as EU Member States at accession and building capacity in the veterinary authorities of the beneficiary countries. The project started in January 2020 and will last until January 2022.
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Contracting authority
Contractor
Agriconsulting Europe S.A. (AESA) Av. de Tervuren 36 B-1040 Brussels – Belgium Tel.: +32 2 736 22 77 Visit:Agriconsulting Europe
Beneficiary countries
- Albania
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Kosovo *
- Montenegro
- North Macedonia
- Serbia
Project target diseases
- Infection with rabies virus
- African swine fever
- Classical swine fever (CSF)
- Infection with lumpy skin disease virus (LSD))
- Infection with bluetongue virus (serotypes 1 - 24)
- Highly pathogen avian Influenza
- Infection with peste des petit ruminants virus
- Sheep pox and goat pox
Project purpose
“In animal and public health, much depends on the performance of the competent veterinary authority. By investing in building and improving the capabilities of the competent authorities in the Western Balkans we have a more sustainable footing for ensuring a favourable animal health status for the whole region over the long term. In addition, some transboundary animal diseases occur in the interface between humans, animals and environment (like avian influenza). The action will also enable the Western Balkans to become familiar and implement the One Health approach, in line with the EU's acquis and best practices in this field.
The European Commission aims to facilitate the progressive alignment of the animal health status, the priorities for disease control intervention and the disease preparedness of the Western Balkans to the higher EU standards. It will contribute to achieving eradication of important animal diseases and achieving official disease freedom in the Western Balkan region. This will protect the EU and ensure a proper functioning of the internal market from the moment the Western Balkans are ready to join the EU. Once they are an EU Member State, they will be able to trade in the internal market without restrictions linked to their animal health status.”
In summary, the project purpose is to ensure that the technical capacity of the beneficiary competent authorities is upgraded to ensure favorable animal health status for the whole region over long term and enable free access of products of animal origin to the EU markets.
Overall objectives
- To control and eradicate important animal diseases in the Western Balkans, in particular those diseases that continue to be a threat to EU Member States.
- To establish a solid cross border cooperation platform with the veterinary services in neighbor countries and EU Member States.
- To improve the access of agriculture products from the Western Balkans to the internal market and to non-EU countries markets.
Main activities
- Cross border cooperation among beneficiary countries
- Establishment of cooperation networks with neighbouring countries including EU member states
- Alignment of the National legislation to the EU legislation
- Optimization of the veterinary preparedness towards transmissible animal diseases
- Updating of contingency plans concerning some transmissible animal disease and implementation of these contingency plans
- Involvement of local veterinarians, farmers, hunters and other parts of the agricultural industry
Main beneficiaries
•NORTH MACEDONIA - Food and Veterinary Agency (FVA) http://fva.gov.mk
•Kosovo
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- Food and Veterinary Agency (FVA) Kosovo* Food and verterinary Agency FVA
•MONTENEGRO - Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary and Phytosanitary Affairs (AFSVPA)
http://www.ubh.gov.me/uprava
•SERBIA - Veterinary Directorate (VD) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management
https://www.vet.minpolj.gov.rs/sr
•ALBANIA - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD)
https://bujqesia.gov.al/
•BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, Veterinary Office of BiH (VOoBiH)
https://www.vet.gov.ba/v2/?lang=en
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