Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/558 amending Implementing Decision 2014/709/EU concerning animal health control measures relating to African swine fever in certain Member States.

Commission Implementing Decision 2014/709/EU lays down animal health control measures in relation to African swine fever in certain Member States. The Annex to that Decision demarcates and lists certain areas of those Members States differentiated by the level of risk based on the epidemiological situation. Article 7, providing for a derogation from the prohibition on the dispatch of consignments of animal by-products from porcine animals from the areas listed in Parts III and IV of the Annex, is hereby reviewed in order to allow for a safe disposal of animal by-products of porcine origin other than feral pigs from holdings located in certain areas of Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, in a manner that is in line with the risk represented by these animal by-products.