NOTIFICATION
OF EMERGENCY MEASURES
Addendum
The following communication,
received on 12 February 2018, is being
circulated at the request of the Delegation of the Philippines.
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Department
of Agriculture (DA) Memorandum Order (MO) No. 02, Lifting the Temporary Ban
on the Importation of Domestic and Wild Birds and their Products Including
Poultry meat, Day-Old Chicks, Eggs and Semen from Oostkamp and Menen in West
Flanders, Belgium
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The
Department of Agriculture (DA) issued Memorandum Order (MO) No. 02, lifting
the temporary ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds and their
products including poultry meat, day‑old chicks, eggs and semen from Oostkamp
and Menen in West Flanders, Belgium. Based on the final report submitted by
Dr Jean-Francois Heymans, Director, Animal Health and Safety of Products of
Animal Origin, Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain in Bruxelles,
Belgium to the World Organisation for Animal Health, the Highly Pathogenic
Avian Influenza (HPAI) events in Oostkamp and Menen West Flanders, Belgium (per temporary banning order: DA MO No. 31, series
of 2017) are now closed and resolved. Furthermore, based on the
evaluation of the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), the risk of contamination
from importing poultry and poultry products from Oostkamp and Menen in West
Flanders, Belgium is negligible.
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/SPS/PHL/18_0835_00_e.pdf
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