According to official information from the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), sheep and goat pox disease has been recorded in Dolj canton, Romania; Newcastle disease in the Opolskie and Silesian administrative regions of the Republic of Poland; highly pathogenic avian influenza in the South Lanarkshire administrative unit of Scotland and Powys canton of Wales, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; in the state of Hesse, Federal Republic of Germany; in the Porto and Lisbon districts of the Portuguese Republic; in the North Holland province of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; and in the Central Denmark Region of the Kingdom of Denmark.
To protect the territory of the Republic from these infectious diseases, a temporary restriction has been imposed by the Food Safety Agency on the import of relevant goods from the mentioned territories, taking into account the zoning principle, in accordance with WOAH's “Terrestrial Animal Health Code”.
Concurrently, an appeal has been made to the State Customs Committee for the implementation of relevant measures.