Decree No. 60 of 1993 of the Government on import and transport restrictions necessary for preventing the introduction into Hungary of foot-and-mouth disease.

According to a similar decision of the Commission of the EC, the Government prohibits the import and transport of live animals (cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs), meat, meat products, milk, dairy products and non-edible products, originating from countries listed in Annex 1 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg, Great-Britain, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain). The Decree does not apply to heat processed meat, meat products, milk and dairy products. More strict animal health control should be carried out in the case of importation of live animals and products with a health certificate, from countries listed in Annex 2 (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Belarus, Croatia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Macedonia and EC Member States).