The European Union declares the Balearic Islands, Catalonia, and Murcia in Spain free of bovine tuberculosis

The European Commission has published the declaration of free status of bovine tuberculosis of the autonomous communities of the Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Murcia, as included in the Implementing Regulation 2023/150 published yesterday in the Official Journal of the European Union (DOUE). Said regulation will enter into force three days after its publication, indicated sources from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. In this way, the continuous progress of the program to eradicate this disease is revealed, after the declaration of tuberculosis-free cattle, in previous years, from Asturias, the Canary Islands, Galicia and the Basque Country. It is expected that new regions or provinces can be added soon. These declarations represent an incentive both for public ...