卫生与食品安全事务. Gudrun Gallhoff 高德蓉 Minister Counsellor 公使衔参赞 for Health and Food Safety. Delegation of the European Union to China 欧洲联盟驻华代表团

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1 EUROPEAN EXTERNAL ACTION SERVICE Gudrun Gallhoff 高德蓉 Minister Counsellor 公使衔参赞 for Health and Food Safety 卫生与食品安全事务 Delegation of the European Union to China 欧洲联盟驻华代表团 12 March 2019

2 Overview of ASF situation in Europe 12/03/19 Beijing, China14 Delegation of the European Union to China with Directorate G Crisis management in food, animals and plants DG SANTE European Commission, Brussels

3 Eradicated from France (1974) Mainland Italy (1993) Belgium (1985) Netherlands (1986) Spain (1994) Portugal (1999) ASF in the EU

4 2007 4

5 Current situation of ASF in Europe:

6 ASF in Belgium: from 13/09/2018 until 25/01/2019 in ADNS notifications in ADNS notifications in the infected area only in wild boar only 6

7 ASF in Romania: until 25/01/2019 in 2018: 1164 outbreaks in domestic pigs & 182 cases in wild boar in 2019: 19 outbreaks in domestic pigs & 39 cases in wild boar 7

8 ASF in Czech Republic First occurrence of ASF - in two wild boar (found dead) on 21 and 22 June 2017 ASF positive decomposed carcass (bones) was found 19 April 2018 Since then - no more cases in wild boar.

9 ASF in 2018: EU ADNS DATA notification of cases in Wild Boar in 2018 Outbreaks in Domestic Pigs 2018 POLAND LITHUANIA LATVIA ESTONIA CZECH REPUBLIC 28 0 ROMANIA HUNGARY BULGARIA 5 1 BELGIUM ITALY TOTAL

10 Main initiatives of the EU on ASF Regionalization (zoning) Scientific advice (EFSA) Urgent intervention (EUVET) Guidance to MSs Audits International cooperation (GFTADS) Public awareness Financial support Further initiatives Research

11 Regionalization in the EU context Regionalization (zooning) in line with OIE standards = integral element EU strategy aimed at: ensuring the best possible disease control minimize the negative impact of disease outbreaks on the EU single market (intra-eu trade) and on exports (without lowering the level of safety of the commodities that are traded/exported (SPS agreement principles) 11

12 EU policy on animal disease regionalization Characteristics of EU regionalization Fulfilling of OIE standards Clear criteria to define infected/free regions Measures to maintain/regain free-status of regions Surveillance in and outside the infected regions Key elements for successful EU regionalisation: Flexibility / predictability Transparency Risk based / proportionality Rapidity 12

13 EU ASF regionalization When necessary: by European Commission Basic baseline Bigger areas can be restricted (e.g. based on administrative / geographical borders) Low risk commodities may be traded under certain additional health conditions (risk mitigation) Enhanced surveillance inside and outside the infected region (e.g. serological tests)

14 EU ASF regionalisation measures Clearly defined roles for Member States and Commission Rapid flow of information Urgent adoption of emergency measures Agreed with Member States Immediately applicable Decisions published in the Official Journal of the European Union in 23 languages 14

15 Recent Audits DG SANTE Directorate F o Romania (17 25 October 2018) o Lithuania (Jan-Feb 2019) o Hungary (Mar-Apr 2019) o Poland (May 2019) Recent Fact finding missions on ASF preparedness o Slovakia (3 7 December 2018) o Spain (10 14 December 2018) o Germany (Jan-Feb 2019) o Austria (Feb-Mar 2019) 15

16 EU international cooperation: GF-TADs (FAO/OIE): 11 meetings of the Standing Group of Experts on ASF in the Baltic and Eastern Europe region since 2014: Bern (22/09/14) - Kick-off Minsk (1-2/12/14) Wild boar management Tallinn (11-12/02/15) backyard holding management Moscow (15-16/03/16) - reviewing the outcome of the ASF filed visits Lisbon (19/09/16) - ASF situation and planning actions Vilnius (28-29/11/16) - ASF situation and planning actions Paris (23/05/17) - ASF situation and planning actions Moldova (20-21/09/17) awareness and communication Kiev (22-23/03/2018) - cross border cooperation addressing (legal and) irregular movements of pigs and their products Paris (22/05/18) - ASF situation and planning actions Warsaw (September 2018) - ASF epidemiology in wild boar population and in the environment Prague, SGE ASF12 (11-12 March 2019) Practical field management 10 Field visits by GFTADs experts in Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, the Czech Republic and Romania + Bulgaria (January 2019) 16

17 OVERVIEW OF EFSA S PAST ASSESSMENTS ON ASF topic/african-swine-fever Scientific opinion Scientific report 17

18 EFSA ON ASF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS New scientific opinion: published in 7/2018 Epidemiological assessment: published in 11/2018 two new Commission mandates for Review the main ASF research gaps: June 2019 Estimation of the risk of spread of ASF: Jun-Dec 2019 Review the evaluation of the ability of matrices, including vegetables, crops, hay and straw as well as sawdust, wood chips and similar materials likely to present a risk to transmit ASF: June

19 Continues financial support to prevent, control and eradicate ASF Since 2013: grants of EUR 95 million awarded for programmes + emergency measures implemented by MS in the combat against ASF (up to 75% co-funding of cost) Awareness campaigns and wild boar passive surveillance = eligible in all MSs (if not in approved programmes, under emergency measures) 19

20 Research on ASF FP7 projects: ASFORCE M EUR - contributed to better preparedness ASFRISK M EUR - serological and molecular diagnostic tools H2020 projects: DEFEND Topic SFS : M EUR - to identify the drivers of ASF emergence in Europe, to develop tools for its management (wild boar) + preliminary work to develop vaccine SWINOSTICS (3 M EUR), ASF-STOP (COST action for an international network with a broad aim on ASF surveillance and control), VETBIONET (10 M EUR) network of facilities researching animal diseases on infectious animal diseases - including ASF Topic SFS : 10 M EUR support the development of an effective ASF vaccine ERANETs agri-food amended to broaden its scope to infectious animal diseases (strong focus on ASF/wildlife/epidemiology) 5 M EUR) Expected: further pull via calls/activities under this ERANET additional M EUR over the years portfolio of actions taken/planned covering ASF > million 20

21 Thank you! CHRONOLOGY OF MAIN INITIATIVE TAKEN OR SUPPORTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION: docs/ad-control_measures-asf-chronology_en.pdf 21

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