Bulgaria cannot export sheep and goats until the end of September

Published 2025년 5월 8일

Tridge summary

The article highlights the extension of the restriction on the movement of small ruminants out of Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece until September 2025, September 2025, and October 2025 respectively, due to the ongoing small ruminant plague (PPR) and sheep and goat pox outbreaks. Despite these restrictions, unregulated animal trade persists, worsening the disease situation. Additionally, an unprecedented epizootic situation in the EU and Germany, with foot-and-mouth disease in cloven-hoofed animals, has been noted since 2025. The article emphasizes the ongoing and endemic nature of these diseases in specific countries, including Turkey, and the severe impact on animal health and trade. Measures to control these diseases have been implemented, with varying degrees of success.
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Original content

Due to the ongoing outbreak of plague of small ruminants (PPR) in Bulgaria and the appeal of the order for the necessary measures to eliminate the case in Velingrad through court proceedings, Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/784 of 14 April 2025 of the European Commission (EC) on the prohibition of the movement of small ruminants out of the country remains valid until 30 September 2025. Similar restrictions are also valid for two of our neighboring countries – Romania – until 30 September 2025, and for Greece – until 31 October 2025. However, the unregulated trade in animals continues, there are dozens of advertisements for the sale of animals on social networks. Since 2024 The situation in the region has also worsened with regard to the diseases plague of small ruminants and sheep and goat pox, with the plague spreading from the summer of 2024 (July) in Romania and Greece, and in November 2024 it was also detected in the town of Velingrad, Pazardzhik region. In March ...
Source: Agri

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