Date: 2025-07-14Category: Not ApplicableState: Union GovernmentCountry: Europe
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1406 of 9 July 2025 concerning certain emergency measures relating to sheep pox and goat pox in Romania and repealing Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1319 (notified under document C(2025) 4768)
Issued by European Commission
· Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety
Executive Summary:
Commission Implementing Decision EU 2025/1406 addresses emergency measures concerning sheep pox and goat pox in Romania, repealing and replacing Implementing Decision EU 2025/1319. It establishes restricted zones with protection and surveillance areas in Teleorman county. Romania is responsible for implementing and ensuring these measures are applied until the specified dates in the Annex. The decision is effective as of July 9, 2025.
Key Points / Main Content:
* **Restricted Zones Establishment:**
* Romania must immediately establish restricted zones, including protection and surveillance zones, as per Article 21 of Delegated Regulation EU 2020/687.
* These zones must include at least the areas listed in the Annex.
* **Measures and Duration:**
* The measures required in the protection and surveillance zones must be applied at least until the dates listed in the Annex.
* **Repeal of Previous Decision:**
* Implementing Decision EU 2025/1319 is repealed.
* **Geographic Specifications (Annex):**
* **Protection Zone:** Specified parts of Teleorman county within a 5 km radius of specified coordinates. Measures applicable until July 11 or 12, 2025, depending on the ADIS reference number.
* **Surveillance Zone:** Specified parts of Teleorman county within a 20 km radius of specified coordinates (excluding the protection zone). Measures applicable until July 20, 2025. Also includes Specified parts of Teleorman county within a 5 km radius of specified coordinates. Measures applicable until July 20, 2025.
Impact Analysis:
* **Romania:**
* *Impact:* Responsible for immediately establishing and enforcing restricted zones, including protection and surveillance zones, and applying specified measures.
* *Action Required:* Establish the zones as defined in the Annex, enforce the required measures within those zones, and ensure measures are applied until the specified dates.
* **Caprine and Ovine Animal Population and Farmers in Romania:**
* *Impact:* Restrictions on movement and potential economic losses due to disease control measures.
* *Action Required:* Comply with all restrictions and measures implemented by the Romanian authorities within the protection and surveillance zones.
* **European Union:**
* *Impact:* Protection against the spread of sheep pox and goat pox within the Union.
* *Action Required:* Monitor the implementation of the decision by Romania and ensure compliance with relevant regulations.
Key Entities Referenced
European Union: A political and economic union of member states located primarily in Europe.
Romania: A country in Southeastern Europe, subject to emergency measures due to outbreaks of sheep pox and goat pox.
Sheep pox and goat pox: An infectious viral disease affecting caprine and ovine animals, which is the subject of the emergency measures in the document.
Commission Implementing Decision EU 2025/1406: The main policy document being analyzed, concerning emergency measures relating to sheep pox and goat pox in Romania.
Commission Implementing Decision EU 2025/1319: An earlier decision concerning interim emergency measures relating to sheep pox and goat pox in Romania, which is repealed by the current decision.
Regulation EU 2016/429: A regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on transmissible animal diseases (Animal Health Law).
Commission Delegated Regulation EU 2020/687: A regulation supplementing Regulation EU 2016/429, regarding rules for the prevention and control of certain listed diseases.
Teleorman county: A county in Romania where outbreaks of sheep pox and goat pox have been confirmed, leading to the establishment of restricted zones.
Official Journal EN
of the European Union L series
2025/1406 14.7.2025
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION(EU) 2025/1406
of 9 July 2025
concerning certain emergency measures relating to sheep pox and goat pox in Romania and repealing
Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1319
(notified under document C(2025) 4768)
(Only the Romanian text is authentic)
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on
transmissible animal diseases and amending and repealing certain acts in the area of animal health (‘Animal Health
Law’)(1), and in particular Article 259(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Sheep pox and goat pox is an infectious viral disease affecting caprine and ovine animals and can have a severe impact
on the concerned animal population and the profitability of farming causing disturbance to movements of
consignments of those animals and products thereof within the Union and exports to third countries.
(2) In the event of an outbreak of sheep pox and goat pox in caprine or ovine animals, there is a serious risk of the spread
of that disease to other establishments of caprine or ovine animals.
(3) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687(2) supplements the rules for the control of the listed diseases
referred to in Article 9(1), points (a), (b) and (c), of Regulation (EU) 2016/429, and defined as category A, B and C
diseases in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1882(3). In particular, Articles 21 and 22 of Delegated
Regulation (EU) 2020/687 provide for the establishment of a restricted zone in the event of an outbreak of a category
A disease, including sheep pox and goat pox, and for certain measures to be applied therein. In addition, Article 21(1)
of that Delegated Regulation provides that the restricted zone is to comprise a protection zone, a surveillance zone,
and, if necessary, further restricted zone around or adjacent to the protection and surveillance zones.
(4) Following two outbreaks of sheep pox and goat pox in Romania confirmed on 17 June 2025, Commission
Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1319(4) was adopted, on 27 June 2025, within the framework of Regulation
(EU) 2016/429. That Implementing Decision lays down certain interim emergency measures relating to infection
with sheep pox and goat pox in Romania applicable until 18 July 2025.
(5) More particularly, Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1319 provides that the protection and surveillance zones to be
established by that Member State, following an outbreak of infection with sheep pox and goat pox, in accordance
with Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687, are to comprise at least the areas listed in the Annex to that
Implementing Decision.
(6) Since the date of adoption of Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1319, Romania has notified the Commission of four
additional outbreaks of infection with sheep pox and goat pox in establishments where ovine and caprine animals are
kept, located in Teleorman county within the limits of the previously established restricted zone.
(1) OJ L 84, 31.3.2016, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/429/oj.
(2) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687 of 17 December 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European
Parliament and the Council, as regards rules for the prevention and control of certain listed diseases (OJ L 174, 3.6.2020, p. 64, ELI:
http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2020/687/oj).
(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1882 of 3 December 2018 on the application of certain disease prevention and
control rules to categories of listed diseases and establishing a list of species and groups of species posing a considerable risk for the
spread of those listed diseases (OJ L 308, 4.12.2018, p. 21, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2018/1882/oj).
(4) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1319 of 27 June 2025 concerning certain interim emergency measures relating to
sheep pox and goat pox in Romania (OJ L, 2025/1319, 1.7.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2025/1319/oj).
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2025/1406/oj 1/3EN
OJ L, 14.7.2025
(7) In light of the epidemiological situation concerning sheep and goat pox in Romania, and notably taking into account
those four new outbreaks inside the restricted zone established after the initial outbreaks, the interim emergency
measures foreseen in Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1319 should be adjusted, both spatially and temporally.
These measures should also be continued in order to prevent the further spread of the disease in Romania or to the
rest of the Union. The updated list of areas where a restricted zone must be established in Romania in respect of
sheep and goat pox, as well as the envisaged duration of these zones, should, therefore, be set out in the Annex to
this Decision.
(8) The size of the protection and surveillance zones, and duration of the measures to be applied therein, are based on
the criteria set out in Article 64(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/429, including the epidemiological situation as regards
sheep pox and goat pox in the areas affected by that disease and the overall epidemiological situation of sheep pox
and goat pox in the Member State concerned by that disease as well as the level of risk for the further spread of the
disease, and are in accordance with the rules laid down in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687. The duration of the
measures also takes into account the international standards of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code of the World
Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)(5).
(9) Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1319 should, therefore, be repealed and replaced by this Decision.
(10) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants,
Animals, Food and Feed,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
Romania shall ensure that:
(a) a restricted zone, which comprises protection and surveillance zones is established immediately by the competent
authority 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) the protection and surveillance zones referred to in point (a) comprise at least the areas listed in the Annex to this
Decision;
(c) the measures required to be applied in the protection and surveillance zones, are applied at least until the dates listed
in the Annex to this Decision.
Article 2
Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1319 is repealed.
Article 3
This Decision is addressed to Romania.
Done at Brussels, 9 July 2025.
For the Commission
Olivér VÁRHELYI
Member of the Commission
(5) https://www.woah.org/en/what-we-do/standards/codes-and-manuals/terrestrial-code-online-access/.
2/3 ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2025/1406/ojEN
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ANNEX
Protection and surveillance zones established around the confirmed outbreaks
Areas established as protection and surveillance
Region and ADIS reference number of the outbreak zones, part of the restricted zone in Romania Date until applicable
referred to in Article 1
Protection zone:
Those parts of Teleorman county,
contained within a circle of a radius of 5
kilometres, centred on UTM 30, ETRS89
coordinates Lat. 44.284226, Long.
24.915503 (2025/1), Lat. 44.306659,
11.7.2025
Long. 24.999652 (2025/2), Lat. 44.28339,
Long. 24.915976 (2025/3), Lat.
44.283545, Long 24.915904 (2025/4),
Lat. 44.282768, Long. 24.916025
(2025/5), Lat 44.282714, Long.
24.917448 (2025/6)
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Teleorman county,
contained within a circle of a radius of 20
Teleorman county kilometres, centred on UTM 30, ETRS89
RO-CAPRIPOX-2025-00001 coordinates Lat. 44.284226, Long.
RO-CAPRIPOX-2025-00002 24.915503 (2025/1), Lat. 44.306659,
RO-CAPRIPOX-2025-00003 Long. 24.999652 (2025/2), Lat. 44.28339, 20.7.2025
RO-CAPRIPOX-2025-00004 Long. 24.915976 (2025/3), Lat.
RO-CAPRIPOX-2025-00005 44.283545, Long 24.915904 (2025/4),
RO-CAPRIPOX-2025-00006 Lat. 44.282768, Long. 24.916025
(2025/5), Lat 44.282714, Long.
24.917448 (2025/6), excluding the areas
contained in the protection zone.
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Teleorman county,
contained within a circle of a radius of 5
kilometres, centred on UTM 30, ETRS89
coordinates Lat. 44.284226, Long.
24.915503 (2025/1), Lat. 44.306659,
12.7.2025 – 20.7.2025
Long. 24.999652 (2025/2), Lat. 44.28339,
Long. 24.915976 (2025/3), Lat.
44.283545, Long 24.915904 (2025/4),
Lat. 44.282768, Long. 24.916025
(2025/5), Lat 44.282714, Long.
24.917448 (2025/6)
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2025/1406/oj 3/3