Date: 2025-11-28Category: Not ApplicableState: Union GovernmentCountry: Europe
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/2415 of 25 November 2025 concerning certain emergency measures relating to sheep pox and goat pox in Romania and repealing Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1767 (notified under document C(2025) 8176)
Issued by European Commission
· Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety
**Executive Summary**
This is a Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/2415 from November 25, 2025, concerning emergency measures for sheep and goat pox in Romania. It establishes restricted zones including protection and surveillance zones. It also repeals Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1767. The decision specifies areas in Dolj and Teleorman counties, Romania, to be included in these zones with associated end dates.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Restricted Zones:**
* Romania must immediately establish a restricted zone, comprising protection and surveillance zones, as per Article 21 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687.
* **Geographical Scope:**
* The protection and surveillance zones must include at least the areas listed in the Annex of this Decision.
* The annex lists these areas in Dolj and Teleorman counties, specifying coordinates and radii for both protection and surveillance zones.
* **Duration of Measures:**
* Measures within the protection and surveillance zones are to be applied until the dates specified in the Annex.
* Dates vary by zone and range from December 9, 2025 to December 22, 2025.
* **Repeal:**
* Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1767 is repealed.
**Impact Analysis**
**Romania**
* **Impact:** Required to establish and maintain restricted zones, comprising protection and surveillance zones, adhering to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687 and implementing specific measures to control sheep and goat pox outbreaks.
* **Action Required:** Immediately establish the restricted zones as defined in the Annex, implement the necessary measures, and maintain them until the specified dates.
**Farmers/Animal Owners in Dolj and Teleorman Counties**
* **Impact:** Restrictions on animal movement and other disease control measures within the protection and surveillance zones may affect their farming practices and profitability.
* **Action Required:** Comply with all measures implemented by the competent authority within the protection and surveillance zones, including potential restrictions on movement and mandatory disease control protocols.
**EU Trade Partners**
* **Impact:** Potential disruptions to trade of caprine and ovine animals and products from Romania due to the restricted zones.
* **Action Required:** Monitor the situation and potential trade implications arising from the implementation of these measures in Romania.
**EU Commission**
* **Impact:** Responsible for overseeing the implementation of the decision.
* **Action Required:** Monitor compliance of Romania with this decision.
Key Entities Referenced
Regulation (EU) 2016/429: The Animal Health Law, which this implementing decision references for the control of animal diseases.
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687: Supplements the rules for the control of listed diseases, specifically regarding the establishment of restricted zones.
Romania: The Member State where sheep pox and goat pox outbreaks occurred, requiring specific measures.
Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1767: The previous implementing decision, which this decision repeals and replaces.
Dolj and Teleorman: Counties in Romania where new outbreaks of sheep pox and goat pox were identified.
Official Journal EN
of the European Union L series
2025/2415 28.11.2025
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION(EU) 2025/2415
of 25 November 2025
concerning certain emergency measures relating to sheep pox and goat pox in Romania and repealing
Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1767
(notified under document C(2025) 8176)
(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. 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.
(2) 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.
(3) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1767(4) was adopted within the framework of Regulation
(EU) 2016/429, and it lays down certain emergency measures relating to infection with sheep pox and goat pox in
Romania. More particularly, Article 1 of Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1767 provides that the restricted zone,
comprising protection and surveillance zones, to be established by the competent authority of that Member State, in
accordance with Article 21 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687, is to comprise at least the areas listed in the
Annex to that Implementing Decision, and the measures required to be applied in the protection and surveillance
zones, are to be applied at least until the dates listed in that Annex.
(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) 2025/1767 of 27 August 2025 concerning certain emergency measures relating to sheep
pox and goat pox in Romania and repealing Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1406 (OJ L, 2025/1767, 29.8.2025, ELI: http://data.
europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2025/1767/oj).
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(4) Following further outbreaks of sheep pox and goat pox in Teleorman and Olt counties in Romania, the Annex to
Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1767 was amended by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1954(5).
(5) As of 24 October 2025, all the measures laid down in Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1767 had been lifted by the
competent authority of Romania, since the last outbreak of sheep pox and goat pox in that Member State prior to that
date was notified to the Commission on 5 September 2025. The last of the measures set out in the Annex to
Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1767 ceased to apply as of 24 October 2025, and there were no new outbreaks
up to that date.
(6) On 17 November 2025, Romania notified the Commission of two new outbreaks of sheep pox and goat pox in
establishments where ovine and caprine animals were kept, located in the counties of Dolj and Teleorman. In
response to these new outbreaks, Romania has established a restricted zone, which comprises protection zone
surveillance zones, where the general disease control measures laid down in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687
are applied in order to prevent the further spread of that disease.
(7) In order to prevent any unnecessary disturbance to trade within the Union and to avoid unjustified barriers to trade
being imposed by third countries, it is necessary to rapidly identify, at Union level, the location and duration of this
restricted zone for sheep pox and goat pox. The list of areas where a restricted zone must be established in Romania,
in respect of sheep pox 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)(6).
(9) In the interests of clarity of Union legislation, it is appropriate to repeal Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1767, as
the emergency measures laid down in that Decision will be replaced by those laid down in 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 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.
(5) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1954 of 22 September 2025 amending the Annex to Implementing Decision
(EU) 2025/1767 concerning certain emergency measures relating to sheep pox and goat pox in Romania (OJ L, 2025/1954,
26.9.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2025/1954/oj).
(6) https://www.woah.org/en/what-we-do/standards/codes-and-manuals/terrestrial-code-online-access/.
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Article 2
Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1767 is repealed.
Article 3
This Decision is addressed to Romania.
Done at Brussels, 25 November 2025.
For the Commission
Olivér VÁRHELYI
Member of the Commission
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ANNEX
Protection and surveillance zones established around the confirmed outbreaks
Region and ADIS reference Areas established as protection and surveillance zones, part of the
Date until applicable
number of the outbreak restricted zone in Romania referred to in Article 1
Protection zone:
Those parts of Dolj county, contained within a circle of a
9.12.2025
radius of 3 kilometres, centred on UTM 30, ETRS89
coordinates Lat. 43.880631, Long. 23.706794 (2025/24).
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Dolj county, contained within a circle of a
Dolj county
radius of 10 kilometres, centred on UTM 30, ETRS89 18.12.2025
RO-CAPRIPOX-2025-00024
coordinates Lat. 43.880631, Long. 23.706794 (2025/24),
excluding the areas contained in the protection zone.
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Dolj county, contained within a circle of a
10.12.2025-18.12.2025
radius of 3 kilometres, centred on UTM 30, ETRS89
coordinates Lat. 43.880631, Long. 23.706794 (2025/24).
Protection zone:
Those parts of Teleorman county, contained within a circle
13.12.2025
of a radius of 3 kilometres, centred on UTM 30, ETRS89
coordinates Lat. 43.810743, Long. 25.373924 (2025/25).
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Teleorman county, contained within a circle
Teleorman county
of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on UTM 30, ETRS89 22.12.2025
RO-CAPRIPOX-2025-00025
coordinates Lat. 43.810743, Long. 25.373924 (2025/25),
excluding the areas contained in the protection zone.
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Teleorman county, contained within a circle
14.12.2025-22.12.2025
of a radius of 3 kilometres, centred on UTM 30, ETRS89
coordinates Lat. 43.810743, Long. 25.373924 (2025/25).
4/4 ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2025/2415/oj