Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1708 of 29 July 2025 concerning certain emergency measures relating to infection with lumpy skin disease virus in France and repealing Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1336 (notified under document C(2025) 5363)

France shall ensure that: (a) a restricted zone, which comprises the protection and surveillance zones, is established immediately by the competent authorities 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) a vaccination zone is established immediately by the competent authorities of that Member State in accordance with Part 1 of Annex IX to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/361, and under the conditions laid down in that Annex; (c) the protection and surveillance zones referred to in point (a) as well as the vaccination zone referred to in point (b) comprise at least the areas listed in the Annexes to this Decision; (d) the measures required to be applied in the protection and surveillance zones as well as the vaccination zone are applied at least until the dates listed in the Annexes to this Decision.

France shall ensure that movements of bovine animals from the protection and surveillance zones set out in Annex I to a destination located outside the external perimeter of those zones in France or outside that Member State are prohibited until the dates listed in that Annex.

Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1336 is repealed.

This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.