Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/2207 of 29 August 2024 concerning certain emergency measures relating to sheep pox and goat pox in Greece (notified under document C(2024) 6222)

This Decision establishes at Union level: (a) the restricted zones which comprise protection and surveillance zones as well as a further restricted zone to be established by Greece in accordance with Article 21 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687, following outbreaks of sheep pox and goat pox in its territory; (b) the duration of the disease control measures to be applied in the protection zones, in, in the surveillance zones and in the further restricted zone in accordance with Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687.

Greece shall ensure that: (a) a restricted zone, which comprises protection zones, surveillance zones as well as a further restricted zone, is established immediately by the competent authority of that Member State in accordance with Article 21 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687, and under the conditions laid down in that Article; (b) the protection, surveillance and further restricted zones referred to in point (a) comprise at least the areas listed in the Annex to this Decision; (c) the measures required to be applied in the protection, surveillance and further restricted zones, are applied at least until the dates listed in the Annex to this Decision.

Movements of sheep and goats from the protection, surveillance and further restricted zones to a destination located outside the external perimeter of the further restricted zone as provided for in Point B of the Annex to this Decision are prohibited until the dates listed for each zone in the Annex to this Decision.

This Decision shall apply until 31 December 2024.

This Decision is addressed to the Hellenic Republic.