Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1287 of 25 June 2025 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/2207 concerning certain emergency measures relating to sheep pox and goat pox in Greece (notified under document C(2025) 4273)

Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/2207 is amended as follows: 1. In Article 3, point b is replaced by the following: ‘(b) movements of sheep and goats from protection and surveillance zones to a destination located within the external perimeter of the immediately surrounding further restricted zone and from a further restricted zone to a destination located within the external perimeter of this further restricted zone, shall only be permitted under the following conditions: (i) they are authorised by the competent authority; (ii) a number of randomly selected animals, within the same lot to be moved, sufficient to detect 10 % disease prevalence with 95 % level of confidence, have been sampled and subjected to a PCR test of saliva samples, collected within 48 hours before movement, with negative results; (iii) the animals are moved directly to a slaughterhouse located within the external perimeter of the same further restricted zone as the establishment of origin, for the purpose of immediate slaughter, until the dates listed for each such protection, surveillance and further restricted zone in the Annex;’ 2. In Article 3, the following points f and g are added after point e: ‘(f) movements of milk and dairy products of sheep and goats from protection and surveillance zones to a destination located outside the external perimeter of the immediately surrounding further restricted zone and from a further restricted zone to a destination located outside the external perimeter of this further restricted zone, shall only be permitted if they are authorised by the competent authority and: (i) the products have been subjected to one of the risk mitigation treatments listed in Annex VII to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687; or (ii) the central competent authority is assessing continuously the epidemiological situation of sheep and goat pox and the related risks in the particular protection, surveillance and further restricted zones, on the basis of appropriate and continuous surveillance, taking into account any new developments of the specific epidemiological situation and the results of this assessment indicate that the risk of the spread of sheep pox and goat pox associated with such movements is negligible. (g) restocking of affected establishments with sheep and goats shall be prohibited.’ 3. The Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/2207 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Decision.’

This Decision is addressed to the Hellenic Republic.