Activities ADEWB 2 - ADEWB - Animal Disease Eradication in the Western Balkans

Duration of the project: 2022 - 2025

PROJECT ACTIVITIES OUTLINED

Support to develop an AH control system aligned with EU standards that would comply with the accession requirements

A1.1 - Technical assistance to develop an action plan to implement the new EU Animal Health Law
A1.2 - Explore the existing legislation to reveal if the veterinary services have the necessary power to enforce the needed actions during an animal disease outbreak

A1 - Report on Legal power - Albania_25.3.2025

A1 - Report on Legal power - BIH_25.3.2025

A1 - Report on Legal power - Kosovo_25.3.2025

A1 - Report on Legal power - Montenegro_25.3.2025

A1 - Report on Legal power - North Macedonia_25.3.2025

A1 - Report on Legal power - Serbia_25.3.2025

Workshop - Adjustment of the national veterinary legislation to enforce implementation of EU AHL and EU OCR provisions, Sutomore, MN, 18-19 March 2025.

Workshop - Certification and conditions for entry into the EU, Belgrade, RS, 19-20 March 2024.

Online Workshop - EU Legislation on ASF, 17 October 2023

Workshop EU Animal Health Law – Transposition into national legislation Belgrade, RS, 10 – 11 May 2023

Basic structures of the organisation of the competent authorities

A2.1 - Give support to develop quality check systems with quality standard operational procedures (SOP)
A2.2 - Establish a system for verification and internal auditing procedures
A2.3 - Give support to establish effective and formalised collaboration arrangements
A2.4 - Develop a mathematic model that calculates the number of staff needed for different tasks to avoid that shortage of official veterinarians

Reports, guidelines and methodologies on verification of official controls, conflict of interest, training plan, communication and collaboration, and, mathematical model for calculation of staff can be dowloaded here.

Workshop – Organisation of Competent Authorities in compliance with Official Control Regulation (EU) 2017/625 (OCR), Pristina, KO, 15-16 May 2025.

ID/Traceability

A3.1 - Explore the existing animal identification, registration and traceability systems

Individual country reports on animal identification and registration

ADEWB mapping Tool and Platform

A3.2 - Organise a communication campaign amongst veterinarians and farmers

Public awareness and communication plan

Assessments on public awarenes and communication activities

Biosecurity requirements and guidelines

Biosecurity mission reports

Disease surveillance

A4.1 - Support preparation of national surveillance plans for transboundary diseases

Workshop on preparation of national surveillance plan on ASF/ACF, Podgorica, MN, 4-5 September 2023

ADEWB ll A4 Online Workshop Avian Influenza 17.04.2025

ADEWB ll Workshop on animal disease surveillance and vaccination Tirana Albania 1-3 December 2025

Workshops on PPR prevention and control strategies – N. Macedonia – Serbia – Albania

Gap Analysis AI Surveillance Exercise

Workshop report Animal Disease Surveillance and Vaccination, Tirana, AL, 1-3 December 2025

A4.2 - Develop procedures to implement surveillance programs (passive as well as active)

Develop procedures to implement surveillance programs (passiv as well as active)

A4.3 - Evaluate existing systems for early detection system

AS IS Review of available national HPAI surveillance – related documentation

Rabies elimination programme in the Western Balkan

ADEWB II Analysis Report ORV in the Western Balkans 2017 – 2023

Evaluate existing systems for early detection system

Animal Health emergency preparedness

A5.1 - Review the existing contingency plans with focus on their implementation

Contingency Manual for Preparedness, Control and Eradication of Category A Animal Diseases

Individual country reports

A5.2 - Design and develop 2-3 simulation exercises using the developed simulation exercises manual

Reports on simulation exercises

Support for the vaccination campaign

A6.1 - Support the implementation of vaccination strategies for relevant animal diseases as develop framework of the ADEWB project

Guidelines on elaboration of vaccination plans for emergency vaccination against Category A diseases

Workshop report - Animal Disease Surveillance and Vaccination, Tirana, Albania, 1-3 December, 2025

A6.2 - Support the countries to implement a procedure for procurement of vaccines

Reinforcement of the ABP system

A7.1 - Explore the possibilities for establishment of rendering plants

Country reports on ABP management system

PRESENTATIONS FROM WORSKSHOP BTSF ON ANIMAL BY-PRODUCTS FOR THE WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES, 22-24 November 2022, Zagreb, Croatia

A7.2 - Cooperation with the environment service to pre-evaluate designated areas where carcasses could be buried during a large outbreak

Assessment for potential regional cooperation in the management of ABP and the feasibility for a regional rendering plant

General outline of options and conditions for potential regional cooperation in the management of ABP and assessment of the feasibility for a regional rendering plant(s)

Information management systems

A8.1 - Identify common models and platforms for collection of epidemiological and laboratory data

Concept Note for Database Platform on Transboundary Animal Diseases in the frame of the GF TADs initiative

A8.2 - Establish training for farmers on the specific requirements for placing products on the domestic, regional, EU and international market

Report Training for Farmers

Individual country training reports

Improvement of the epidemiological work performed by the laboratories as regards important animal diseases in the whole of the Western Balkans

A9.1 - Establish a procedure to ensure that laboratories are officially designated by the authorities as National Reference Laboratories that comply with ISO standards

Individual country reports

Rules on the Designation of Official Laboratories and NRL for Animal Health

Methodology for calculating NRL budgets

Methodology for managing conflict of interest

A9.2 - Development of laboratory contingency plans and laboratory simulation exercises

Report on Lab Contingency Plan and Simulation Exercises

Model Laboratory Contingency Plan

Lab Simulation Exercises After-Action Review and Recommendations

A9.3 - Implementation and quality check of the developed procedure for safe collection and transport of samples to the laboratory

Training SOP and Simulation exercise

Report on SOPs for sample collection, packaging and delivery to laboratories

A9.4 - Further develop and maintain the regional laboratory network established under ADEWB

Strengthening regional laboratory cooperation, 04-05 September 2025, Skopje, North Macedonia

ADEWB II – Strengthening Regional Laboratory Cooperation (Continuation Workshop) Workshop, Belgrade, Serbia, 4–5 December 2025

Laboratory networking final report

Maintain and further develop cross border cooperation of veterinary services of neighbouring Western Balkan and EU countries, in the animal disease control

A10.1 - Further develop and maintain the general overview of ongoing projects in the IPA beneficiaries’ countries
A10.2 - Support organization of regular meetings of the WB CVOs Forum, established in the framework of ADEWB project
A10.3 - Enhance exchange of information on the current state of play on animal health in the Western Balkan countries
A10.4 - Establish procedures to make sure that disease control for transboundary animal diseases is carried out in a coordinated manner
A10.5 - To elaborate conditions and potential for regional cooperation in the management of animal by-products
A10.6 - To plan Workshops for sharing best practices and lessons learned in the control of animal diseases
A10.7 - To run and facilitate simulation exercises to ensure that the legislation is well implemented at all levels of the veterinary services
A10.8 - Organise relevant expert missions, dedicated planning meetings on future activities involving local veterinary authorities

Report Animal Health Data Analysis and Regional Coordination A10.3 and A10.4

Report Review existing international and regional database on Animal Health

Online Application on Animal disease outbreaks in the Western Balkans – User Guide

Animal Health Data Analysis and Regional Coordination Workshop Report, Durres, AL, 27-28 October 2025

Animal Health Data Analysis and Regional Coordination Workshop Report, Belgrade, RS, 22-23 December 2025

Support for becoming authorised to export animals and animal products to the EU and become recognized with disease free status by OIE for certain animal diseases

A11.1 - Support the WB countries in their requests to achieve approval to export certain commodities to the EU

Written Guidelines with identified EU animal health import requirements

A11.2 - Support the WB countries in preparing dossiers for relevant animal diseases to become disease free status

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.

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