Animal Plant Health Agency
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This page provides details on particular issues or changes that importers and exporters may need to be aware of.
You can view all of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defras) guidance and forms for:
Defras animal disease monitoring collection covers major, notifiable or new and emerging animal disease outbreaks internationally and in the UK.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) import restrictions: Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) has applied the following restrictions for consignments produced on or after 10 February 2025:
- imports of fresh poultry meat are suspended??
- meat products of poultry must be subject to heat treatment D (including being treated to 70C throughout) or higher
On 10 February 2025, an outbreak of HPAI was confirmed in a commercial poultry flock in Kozarde, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The restrictions will remain in place until Bosnia and Herzegovina is recognised by the UK as disease free for HPAI.
Read the poultry and poultry products and meat products list of non-EU countries approved to export animals and animal products to Great Britain for more information.
Peste des petits ruminants import restrictions: Hungary
Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) has suspended the import of the following sheep and goat commodities from Hungary:
- live animals
- germplasm
- raw milk and raw milk products
- untreated wool and hair
- fresh or chilled (untreated) skins and hides
This is due to an outbreak of peste des petits ruminants (PPR) that was confirmed on 24 January 2025.
For more information, read the lists of EU?and EFTA countries approved to export animals and animal products to Great Britain for:
- live ungulates
- ovine and caprine ova and embryos
- ovine and caprine semen
- milk and milk products
These measures came into force on 29 January 2025.
For restrictions on untreated wool and hair and on fresh or chilled (untreated) skins and hides, the following safeguard declarations give effect to this decision. They are published on behalf of the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (England), the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretaryfor ClimateChangeand Rural Affairs (Wales) and the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands (Scotland).
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These safeguard declarations apply from 31 January 2025 and will continue to apply until they are revoked or amended.
Foot and mouth disease import restrictions
Update: 6 February 2025
The commercial import of hay and straw and certain animal by-products that constitute a risk of FMD incursion are restricted by the following safeguard declarations published on behalf of the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (England), the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary?for Climate?Change?and Rural Affairs (Wales) and the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands (Scotland).
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These special measures apply from 7 February 2025 and will continue to apply until they are revoked or amended.
Update: 16 January 2025
Declaration of special measures: importation of untreated wool and hair of susceptible animals for certain third countries and territories
Imports of untreated wool and hair of species susceptible to foot and mouth disease (FMD) (except porcines) will only be permitted from countries or zones that are recognised as free of FMD by the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), and must be accompanied by:
- a commercial document, or importer declaration (if applicable)
- the health certificate provided in the safeguard declaration (only applicable to countries with FMD that are exporting from FM