Moscow - Russian agriculture watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor has accepted the German veterinary service's proposals on poultry regionalization and has lifted, effective Jan. 26, several restrictions on supplies of live poultry and hatching eggs from certain regions of Germany and imposed news ones with effect from Jan. 27.
The service said restrictions had been lifted on supplies from the state of Mecklenburg-Vorprommen, and the administrative districts of Osnabruck, Emsland, Vechta and Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony; the district of Greiz, Thuringia; and Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis (Baden-Wurttemberg). The decision was also influenced by an improvement in the situation with low-pathogenic avian influenza on these territories and safety guarantees provided by the German veterinary service.
However from Jan. 27, in connection with outbreaks of high-path avian influenza, shipments of poultry and hatching eggs have been banned from Greifswald and Rostock (Mecklenburg-Vorprommen), Cloppenburg (Lower Saxony) and Anhalt-Bitterfeld (Lower Saxony). Territory in the district of Uckermark (Brandenburg) as this is in direct proximity to the hotbed of the disease.
