Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594 laying down special disease control measures for African swine fever and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/605.

This Regulation lays down rules on: (a) special disease control measures regarding African swine fever to be applied for a limited period of time by the Member States which are listed or which have areas listed in Annex I and II; (b) listing at Union level in Annex I of restricted zones I, II and III following outbreaks of African swine fever; and (c) listing at Union level in Annex II, following an outbreak of African swine fever in a previously disease-free Member State or zone: (i) of the restricted zones, which comprise protection and surveillance zones, in the case of an outbreak of African swine fever in kept porcine animals; and (ii) of the infected zones, in the case of an outbreak of that disease in wild porcine animals. The special disease control measures apply to kept and wild porcine animals and to products obtained from porcine animals in addition to the measures applicable in the protection, surveillance, further restricted and infected zones established by the competent authorities of those Member States in accordance with Article 21(1) and Article 63 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687.