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Official Journal EN
of the European Union L series
2025/654 31.3.2025
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2025/654
of 26 March 2025
concerning certain emergency measures relating to foot and mouth disease in Hungary and Slovakia
and amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/613
(notified under document C(2025) 1957)
(Only the Hungarian and Slovak texts are 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), point (c), thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Foot and mouth disease is an infectious viral disease affecting animals in the mammal order of Artiodactyla 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 foot and mouth disease in animals of listed species, there is a serious risk of the spread
of that disease to other establishments keeping animals of listed species.
(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 foot and mouth disease, and for certain measures to be applied therein.
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 zones around or adjacent to the protection and surveillance
zones.
(4) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/613(4)was adopted on the basis of Regulation (EU) 2016/429, and
it lays down certain interim emergency measures relating to an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in an
establishment keeping bovine animals in the County of Győr-Moson-Sopron in Hungary, which was confirmed by
the competent authority on 6 March 2025, and which is in close proximity to the border with Slovakia. More
particularly, Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/613 provides that the protection and surveillance zones to be
established in Hungary, and the surveillance zone to be established in Slovakia, in accordance with Delegated
(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) 2025/613 of 24 March 2025 concerning certain emergency measures relating to foot and
mouth disease in Hungary and repealing Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/496 (OJ L, 2025/613, 25.3.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.
eu/eli/dec_impl/2025/613/oj).
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Regulation (EU) 2020/687, following that outbreak, had to comprise at least the areas listed in the Annex to that
Implementing Decision. In addition, Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/613 provides that the measures required to
be applied in those zones, must be applied at least until 30 April 2025.
(5) Since Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/613 was prepared, Slovakia has informed the Commission of the
confirmation of three outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in the Trnava region close to the border with the County
of Győr-Moson-Sopron in Hungary, which were confirmed on 21 March 2025, and, in accordance with Delegated
Regulation (EU) 2020/687, it has established a restricted zone, which comprises protection and surveillance zones,
where the disease control measures laid down in that Delegated Regulation are applied in order to prevent the
further spread of that disease.
(6) 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 areas where a restricted zone
for foot and mouth disease, which comprises the protection and surveillance zones, which should be established in
Slovakia, as well as the areas where surveillance zones should be established in Hungary, should be established in
collaboration with those Member States. Therefore, the areas to be included in those protection and surveillance
zones should be defined both spatially and temporally, in order to prevent the spread of the disease from the
affected establishments in Slovakia to other parts of those Member States, to other Member States or to third
countries. It is also necessary to provide clarity at Union level, by adopting a Union legal act, setting out the exact
scope of those areas, as well as on the measures to be applied therein, in order to avoid any unjustified disruptions
to the movements of animals and products thereof in the Union, as well as exports to third countries.
(7) Accordingly, it is necessary to rapidly review at Union level the measures applicable in the areas currently designated
as restricted zones for foot and mouth disease, which comprise protection and surveillance zones in Slovakia, and
which comprise surveillance zones in Hungary, in collaboration with those Member States.
(8) In addition, it is necessary to update the perimeters of the restricted zones in relation to the earlier outbreak in Győr-
Moson-Sopron in Hungary, and the duration of the measures applied therein taking into account the evolution of
the epidemiological situation.
(9) Article 1 of Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/613 should be amended, and the Annex thereto should be replaced.
(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
Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/613 is amended as follows:
1. Article 1 is replaced by the following:
‘Article 1
1. Hungary and Slovakia shall immediately establish restricted zones, comprising protection and surveillance
zones, as set out in the Annex to this Decision, in accordance with Article 21 of Delegated Regulation
(EU) 2020/687.
2. Hungary and Slovakia shall ensure that:
(a) the protection and surveillance zones referred to in the paragraph 1 comprise at least the areas listed in the
Annex; and that
(b) the measures required to be applied in the protection and surveillance zones, are applied at least until the dates
listed in the Annex.’;
2. the Annex is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Decision.
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Article 2
This Decision is addressed to Hungary and the Slovak Republic.
Done at Brussels, 26 March 2025.
For the Commission
Olivér VÁRHELYI
Member of the Commission
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ANNEX
Protection and surveillance zones established around the confirmed outbreak
Areas established as protection and
Region and ADIS reference number
Country surveillance zones referred to in Date until applicable
of the outbreak
Article 1
Hungary Protection zone:
Those parts of Hungary,
contained within a circle of a
30.4.2025
radius of 3 kilometres, centred
on ETRS89 coordinates Lat.
47.745480, Long. 17.694840.
HU-FMD-2025-00001
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Hungary,
contained within a circle of a
radius of 10 kilometres, centred
30.4.2025
on ETRS89 coordinates Lat.
47.745480, Long. 17.694840,
excluding the areas contained in
the protection zone.
Slovakia Surveillance zone:
In district Dunajská Streda: the
municipalities of Medveďov,
Sap, Baloň, Čiližská Radvaň and
HU-FMD-2025-00001 30.4.2025
Kľúčovec.
In district Komárno: the
municipalities of Číčov, Trávnik
and Klížska Nemá.
Slovakia Protection zone:
Those parts of Slovakia,
contained within a circle of a
30.4.2025
radius of 3 kilometres, centred
on ETRS89 coordinates Lat.
47.8049, Long. 17.6666.
SK-FMD-2025-00001
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Slovakia,
contained within a circle of a
radius of 10 kilometres, centred
30.4.2025
on ETRS89 coordinates Lat.
47.8049, Long. 17.6666,
excluding the areas contained in
the protection zone.
Hungary Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Hungary,
contained within a circle of a
SK-FMD-2025-00001 30.4.2025
radius of 10 kilometres, centred
on ETRS89 coordinates Lat.
47.8049, Long. 17.6666.
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Areas established as protection and
Region and ADIS reference number
Country surveillance zones referred to in Date until applicable
of the outbreak
Article 1
Slovakia Protection zone:
Those parts of Slovakia,
contained within a circle of a
30.4.2025
radius of 3 kilometres, centred
on ETRS89 coordinates Lat.
47.8433, Long. 17.6214.
SK-FMD-2025-00002 Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Slovakia,
contained within a circle of a
radius of 10 kilometres, centred
30.4.2025
on ETRS89 coordinates Lat.
47.8433, Long. 17.6214,
excluding the areas contained in
the protection zone.
Hungary Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Hungary,
contained within a circle of a
SK-FMD-2025-00002 30.4.2025
radius of 10 kilometres, centred
on ETRS89 coordinates Lat.
47.8433, Long. 17.6214.
Slovakia Protection zone:
Those parts of Slovakia,
contained within a circle of a
30.4.2025
radius of 3 kilometres, centred
on ETRS89 coordinates Lat.
47.9097, Long. 17.5387.
SK-FMD-2025-00003 Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Slovakia,
contained within a circle of a
radius of 10 kilometres, centred
30.4.2025
on ETRS89 coordinates Lat.
47.9097, Long. 17.5387,
excluding the areas contained in
the protection zone.
Hungary Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Hungary,
contained within a circle of a
SK-FMD-2025-00003 30.4.2025
radius of 10 kilometres, centred
on ETRS89 coordinates Lat.
47.9097, Long. 17.5387.
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