Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1483 of 31 July 2025 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1160 concerning certain emergency measures relating to sheep pox and goat pox in Bulgaria (notified under document C(2025) 5466)

Bulgaria shall ensure that: (a) a restricted zone, which comprises protection zones, surveillance zones, and further restricted zones, is established, in accordance with Article 21 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687, immediately by the competent authorities of Bulgaria; (b) the protection, surveillance, and further restricted zones, referred to in point (a), comprise at least the areas listed in Parts A and B of Annex I; (c) the measures required to be applied in the protection, surveillance, and further restricted zones, referred to in point (a), are applied at least until the dates listed in Parts A and B of Annex I.

Bulgaria shall ensure that: (a) movements of sheep and goats from the 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, including destinations located in a different further restricted zone as set out in Part B of the Annex, are prohibited until the dates listed for each such protection, surveillance and further restricted zone in the Annex; (b) movements of sheep and goats from those parts of the territory of Bulgaria that are not listed in the Annex, to a destination located within the external perimeter of a further restricted zone shall be prohibited until all protection zones within this external perimeter have been lifted in accordance with the dates set out in that Annex; (c) movements of sheep and goats from the territory of Bulgaria to a destination located outside Bulgaria are prohibited until 31 October 2025.

Bulgaria shall apply the measures which are applicable to further restricted zones, as provided for in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687, in the areas listed in Annex II to this Decision until the dates set out therein. Movements of sheep and goats from the areas listed in Annex II to this Decision to a destination located outside the external perimeter of those areas shall be prohibited until the dates set out in that Annex.

This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Bulgaria.’

This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Bulgaria.